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Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by makecheck »

martinald wrote: post #14

I use both Windows 10 and OS X on a rMBP all day at work. I definitely think Windows 10 is way more stable and polished. I constantly have problems with OS X WiFi connecting/dropping out, this has only been a recent thing since 10.11 (before OS X wifi support was incredible). I also have problems with Spotlight screwing up. I use spotlight for launching apps, and it often just loses all the apps which I use all day e…

Definitely should download Alfred (on Mac App Store) as a replacement for Spotlight. I use it basically for launching and quick math, etc. but it can do almost anything.

It doesn't have any of the slowdowns that Spotlight does, and it still has a small interface by default that can move anywhere on the screen.

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by sondr3 »

tajen wrote: post #258
sithadmin wrote: post #19

>Mossberg pointed to "a gradual degradation in the quality and reliability of Apple’s core apps." He fingered iTunes for the desktop ("I dread opening the thing"), and the Mail, Photos, and iCloud programs. As somebody that's used a Mac for 90%+ of all computing-related tasks since OS X was released, all of the above-mentioned apps/services have been dead to me for years. I honestly can't remember the last time I pur…

To whomever would hear it: I want and need a deluxe Linux OS for which I would pay $200/year, which would do things well. This includes: - Porting bugfixes forward (I dropped Ubuntu because they didn't port a bugfix from 12.x to 13.04 - After 2 days trying to recover my network auth, I asked a Mac to my boss). - Designed for me, not for monkeys with big fingers who bring up Amazon results for every search (That's not…

> - As a bonus, in that OS, all apps would be webkit/js-based. But I'm dreaming.

Oh good heavens no, that's the absolute last thing I want from a OS.

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Post by ryanmarsh »

readams wrote: post #364
st3v3r wrote: post #266

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OS X lets you set default apps. I had Chrome set as my default browser for a while.

Try changing the app that launches when you press play/pause on the Mac keyboard. Go ahead. I'll wait.

I just had to look down ... and yep there they are. I had no idea these were on my keyboard. Never used 'em.

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Post by chipx86 »

marincounty wrote: post #292
bphogan wrote: post #223

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The alternative is that I need to have 30 versions of Chrome laying around because they update every week or two. Surely there has to be a middle ground. :)

I have a three year old MacBook. I would like to use Chrome, but it brings my laptop to a crawl. Almost unusuable. I just figured it was my 4 gigs of RAM, and everyone was having a problem with Chrome? You guys run Chrome with no problems? You must have more ram?

My MacBook Pro is from 2012, but I have 16GB of RAM in it. I regularly have something like 10 windows with about 15 or so tabs in each. It can get bogged down at times, but generally works fine.

Chrome wants RAM, so I think that's the real blocker in your case.

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Post by makecheck »

Ensorceled wrote: post #183

What I really hate is that Googling for problems brings you to Apple Forum discussions from 2014, 2013 and sometimes even earlier. If they are not fixing serious bugs that have been around for a couple of versions now, just how much cruft are they accruing. Worse, issues that were fixed, like my iPhone playing a random song at a random loudness instead of returning to Audible, have returned. My Fall 2015 Mac Book Pro…

The thing is, design is supposed to mean "how it works" (and not just fonts, etc.); they're just not designing anymore. When Jony Ive once said in a video that things should look like they haven't been designed, I thought "yeah they sure look that way, they're crappy now".

I shouldn't have to turn on half of the Accessibility settings to return to what I'd consider a normal interface, either. (And the real problem with any non-default setting is that many apps clearly don't test with that; e.g. with the "bold" or "larger" font settings, a lot of things start to truncate or just not lay out as nicely.)

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Post by munchbunny »

stephengillie wrote: post #239
nostrademons wrote: post #202

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Oh, I certainly wish Apple would allow you to set third-party programs as defaults for integration. But unfortunately that's not my call. I just suck it up and manually launch the programs I want to use, because I like using them better.

Were this Windows, there would be a 3rd party app...err application... that would let you change the default launch app. Why not on OSX?

In Windows you can change the setting quite easily using a first party settings dialog. Or were you talking about having a 3rd party application as an option in that dialog? Or the part where some applications let you associate the file type when you install the application, or in some cases the settings pages inside the application?

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Post by givinguflac »

mgkimsal wrote: post #359
marincounty wrote: post #317

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I have a feeling you have new Apple products. I have a three year old MacBook, and I believe, a four year old Ipad2. I want to believe it was just the iPad and too much JavaScript, but my laptop is not what I expect from a three year laptop. That wheel is spinning way too much. Chrome brings it to unusuable, but figured it was my fault. I only have 4 gigs. Actually, I though 4 gigs would be enough? I do not believe i…

> I do not believe in buying a new computer every two years. It wouldn't help anyway, because that damn ball spins even on new computers. I keep getting told I'm "doing too much". Apparently a $2500 laptop should be confined to no more than a handful of concurrent Apple-approved applications and nothing more... ? (and even then, you'll still get those beach balls).

I have a 2014 retina MBP and I run VMWare daily with Windows 7 and allotted 8 cores and 8 GB of RAM, leaving the same amount for the Mac side, and I never see a beachball. I always have at least two browsers with a few dozen Windows, outlook, slack, and a ton of software in the VM, and still don't have an issue. YMMV.

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Post by gertef »

nostrademons wrote: post #159

It's kinda weird to read commentators talking as if this was the end of a golden age of Apple. From my perspective, their application software has always sucked. It was there because you need apps to bootstrap a platform and attract enough users to attract developers. But you can't really expect a consumer electronics company to have the best application for a given niche once the niche has been identified and attrac…

Apple makes hardware and iCal. Google makes Search and Calendar. Neither company charges for their calendar app. (OK, Google sort of does for Apps)

Is it a priori obvious that which conglomerate would be better at some app than another?

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Post by givinguflac »

marincounty wrote: post #317
samastur wrote: post #253

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When was this golden age? I've been a Mac user for about 10 years and it was never better than now, probably the opposite. Every edition had bunch of bugs I hated. Before then I regularly tested Mac for local computer magazine and it didn't look better either. I even managed to freeze Mac OSX 10.1 with first mouse click when it arrived in our lab. Before then we had lots of fun looking at ways you could hang by that…

I have a feeling you have new Apple products. I have a three year old MacBook, and I believe, a four year old Ipad2. I want to believe it was just the iPad and too much JavaScript, but my laptop is not what I expect from a three year laptop. That wheel is spinning way too much. Chrome brings it to unusuable, but figured it was my fault. I only have 4 gigs. Actually, I though 4 gigs would be enough? I do not believe i…

If you haven't installed an SSD in your machine I definitely would.

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by Bud »

readams wrote: post #364
st3v3r wrote: post #266

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OS X lets you set default apps. I had Chrome set as my default browser for a while.

Try changing the app that launches when you press play/pause on the Mac keyboard. Go ahead. I'll wait.

Can do that with any number of keyboard macro apps.
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