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I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
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Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#382Regarding the iPhone 17 Pro: > People who have no use for all these pro video recording features shouldn’t waste their money on it. Unless they want a big chunky iPhone with the best camera array and/or have money to burn. I feel like people who “want the best camera array and have money to burn” probably describes a significant percentage of HN readers. I’m honestly pretty excited that they’ve finally put the larger…
The air is too big and clunky from me. Sent from my iPhone 13 mini, which is also Too Damn Big. I’m got above average size human hands, which are too small even for the mini.
>Sent from my iPhone 13 mini, which is also Too Damn Big.
As someone with small hands, I kind of regret my iPhone 13 mini. I really want something smaller, but if I have to have a phone I can't hold well in one hand, I might as well have a bigger screen.
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Finder made all the same mistakes as Windows did. Tbf, the Finder is still crap (if only it would be nearly as good as Windows Explorer was in its heyday I would probably use it more), and the UNIX terminal is pretty much needed to make a Mac usable in the first place - which is fine though, because the UNIX-ness was exactly why I switched to Mac ;)
> Tbf, the Finder is still crap (if only it would be nearly as good as Windows Explorer was in its heyday I would probably use it more) I have the exact opposite opinion. I loathe Windows Explorer, and relatively simply stuff like presenting a tree view is apparently some weird magic trick that only Apple has figured out how to do. Browsing SMB shares (or any other networked storage) is one shortcut away (cmd+k), and…
on my Mac, the finder systematically fails to display the most recent downloaded files, or files synchronized through Nextcloud, under "recent files". For some reason, it always displays some random selection of recently used files. It's completely useless. In fact, I look for recent files using "find" in the terminal. At least this work.
On my Linux laptop, Nautilus (Gnome) displays exactly the last files in the right order, and it's incredibly useful.
There are countless annoyances like this on MacOS; window focus and placement always surprises and annoys me, even if Rectangle helps somewhat. I find it so much less usable and useful than Gnome.
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#384If anyone feels this way and wants to try an alpha I have 1,000+ hours in.. I've implemented a Windows 10-like UI for MacOS. Similar to uBar (ubarapp.com).
The key distinction is it's built to be extended with third-party plugins (think Obsidian). I stopped using uBar because it had features I needed, but it's not actively adding features anymore last I checked. And of course, this will be fully open source.
This solves a lot of problems I have feeling productive in any not-MATE UI. More here: https://progress.compose.sh/about
It's in active alpha development but has all the core features you'd expect: taskbar works great, but only a basic system tray and start menu. And it'd be very much an alpha that needs feedback :-)
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. > When OS X debuted there was a daytime radio talk show in my area called “The Computer Guys.” They capably covered all sorts of computing topics, but were clearly long-time Apple dudes. And they spent weeks complaining about what a disaster OS X was. The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. The Finder ma…
> There's a theory in the comments that they want to align with "people who want the best camera array and have money to burn". I agree with you and this theory sounds like moving goalposts. First people claimed that the free market will always give the consumer what they want. Then this turned out to be not true (we even have a term, enshittification), and now people come up with a more "refined" theory. Why would i…
Could it be that "people" that say that are different groups of people?
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It's just annoying to have to carry a USB Dongle for something that should be built in.
Could you use something like this direct USB-C to 3.5mm Audio Cable, eliminating the need for a dongle? https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MDV84AM/A/usb-c-to-35-mm-...
Ohh cool.
I didn't know about that, I'll think about it
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. > When OS X debuted there was a daytime radio talk show in my area called “The Computer Guys.” They capably covered all sorts of computing topics, but were clearly long-time Apple dudes. And they spent weeks complaining about what a disaster OS X was. The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. The Finder ma…
> There's a theory in the comments that they want to align with "people who want the best camera array and have money to burn". I agree with you and this theory sounds like moving goalposts. First people claimed that the free market will always give the consumer what they want. Then this turned out to be not true (we even have a term, enshittification), and now people come up with a more "refined" theory. Why would i…
> First people claimed that the free market will always give the consumer what they want.
Enshittification does give consumers what they want: free stuff. People will deny it up and down and claim they would pay for non-enshittified Facebook, for example. But how many people actually would pay a subscription to use a Facebook style service? Enough to build sustain a company of Meta's size? Probably not. How many people pay for Kagi?
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
I realize we're talking about Airpods, but hot swappable batteries don't make sense to me either anymore. I seem to have power almost everywhere. My phone spends a surprising amount of time on a charger. Most of the day while I'm at home, it's on a charger. I used to keep one at the office on my desk. The car has a charger too, and CarPlay so you might as well plug it in. I'm not sure if it's a coping mechanism for p…
I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max and an older version of this battery I use and when I travel: https://a.co/d/3g3F4eC It can charge my MacBook Aur M2 once or my iPhone 16 Pro Max 3-4x. The iPhone itself can easily last flying and layovers all day.
https://a.co/d/igikGeL
I'm not sure how many times it would charge our phones. One day I think we did 4 different ones without issue.
When you're standing around at a BMX track, the functionality here actually made a lot of sense. It's not travel friendly in the same sense.
We have named ours "the cube".
Phone dead? Grab the cube. Tires soft? Grab the cube. Left the lights on in the car? You got it, the cube.
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#389> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. When OS X debuted there was a daytime radio talk show in my area called “The Computer Guys.” They capably covered all sorts of computing topics, but were clearly long-time Apple dudes. And they spent weeks complaining about what a disaster OS X was. The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. The Finder made…
Agree, completely.
Also aligns in spirit with "company is not your family" idea.
The original post reads like an aggregation of complaints. I have some too! In particular stating that the Apple Watch is too complicated to use resonates. I have/use regularly but I am never pleased w/the interface.
AirPods on the other hand - a gem. They just work. Sure, they sometimes awkwardly disconnect/connect to other devices (when I have more than 1 vying for attention) but they're rock solid for me thus far.
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#390We're in a state of decline in a number of areas. I agree with you with regard to macOS, but Windows has degraded far worse than even the most cynical among us would have guessed just 5-10 years ago. Linux is great in my opinion, but there's no reason to think it's immune. What happens if corporate interests get even more invested in Linux? Just look at Android. Or, when Linus Torvalds passes, will there be good stewardship? Will the government require ID verification that simply won't run in Linux? The modern computing situation is quite fragile, and many options are receding on a yearly basis.