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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

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Post by martin_a »

kshacker wrote: post #194
Mistletoe wrote: post #131

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The people that I know laughed heartily at the orange.

I am one of those buying orange. Never went for colors, always deep blue or grey, but both my son and I went for orange. And not even politically connected. Just liked the color.

Go for it! I had a bright red case for my phone for some time. Looked great, a nice little splash of color, also worked well with the company I was working for at that time (brand color was red, too).

I've changed phones since then and at some time found red "too much", so I went with a black case because I thought I needed to look more serious. Should revisit that thought, especially when talking about phone cases... :-D

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Post by carlosjobim »

immibis wrote: post #245
killingtime74 wrote: post #144

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At my employer even c-suite get fired all the time. If anything it's safer being rank and file

They probably walk away with ten million dollars each time.

And the company makes more than that back by getting rid of them.

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Post by ndiddy »

theshrike79 wrote: post #332
8fingerlouie wrote: post #251

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> 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…

...but the SMB implementation on macOS is shit. Try to browse any network directory with a non-trivial amount of files and see the whole Finder window just beach-ball or freeze. I can browse my NAS faster via a browser and copyparty[0] than with Finder and SMB or NFS... [0] https://github.com/9001/copyparty

Yeah I don’t know how they made it so bad. On Windows & Linux, using an SMB share basically gives you the same experience as using a USB hard drive connected directly to the machine. On Mac, you have to wait 30 seconds every time you open a directory. Then when you’re finally at the directory you want and start copying files, the speed slows down to a crawl as the copy progresses. I find it especially confusing because Apple offers 10 Gbit networking for their desktops at an additional fee. What’s the point of having that option when their shitty SMB implementation makes doing anything on your LAN far slower than 1 Gbit anyway?

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Post by jercik »

madeofpalk wrote: post #293

> As for the AirPods, and true wireless earbuds in general, I find this product category to be the most wasteful. Unless someone comes up with a type of earbuds that have easily replaceable batteries, I’m not interested in buying something that’s bound to become e‑waste in a relatively short period of time. Aren't the batteries the most wasteful, least recyclable/reusable part of the airpods? They're so small I can't…

I’ve had the same thoughts about this. I checked, and a MacBook Pro battery is about 30 times larger than the batteries in AirPods Pro. The environmental costs probably don’t scale perfectly with mass, but still, you’d need a lot of pairs of AirPods to leave the same mark as a single laptop.

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Post by freefaler »

snowwrestler wrote: post #89

> 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…

>> The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG.

Oh, the atrocities of "simplification" made during Ive's later years of leadership are so numerous that they beggar belief. Many aspects of iOS and macOS no longer conform to even the basic principles of UI affordances.

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Post by t1234s »

I think Apple is going the wrong way by not allowing you to easily remove all of the bloatware iOS apps from newer versions of macOS. They could easily use their App Store to redistribute these apps if pro users want to install them later on. With each new macOS version my Applications folder gets more and more junk from apple that I don't ever need to use.

Would this make me go back to windows? Hell No

Needing to use Adobe CS keeps me from switching to Linux. Makes me wonder if MS or Apple is paying Adobe to keep them from releasing a Linux version of CS.

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Post by TechSquidTV »

snowwrestler wrote: post #89

> 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…

I had been fairly anti apple my entire life. Believing they were massively over priced, and lacked support for many of the things I did personally.

In my younger years I was pretty big on graphic design, still big on video editing. People used to always say "Mac is better for design". I would ask, where did you get this from? Adobe runs on both platforms and updates often come out for Windows before they are ported to Apple (Adobe updates). And my Windows machines had powerful graphics cards, unlike macs.

However. A couple years ago I built myself an insanely expensive computer build with the best parts I've ever put into a machine. It died 2 years later.

I decided I just couldn't go through that anymore. I'm done building computers. I'm done with the little problems they always get. I'm done fixing my machine more than using it.

Since the $500 Mac mini, Apple has started looking interesting. Finally I bought the Mac Studio M3 Ultra.

So far so good. I wish I could play more games, but I could be looking into things like Crossover. There are a few old bespoke programs for old versions of Windows I also wish I could run once in a while but nothing too major.

And best of all, Apple Care +. I'm not dealing with a broken machine again. I'll be buying warranties for it until I'm done with it. Bought 2 years for I think about $200, and my understanding is I should be able to renew that service/warranty at the end of the two years. After that, we'll see.

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Post by hu3 »

aborsy wrote: post #223

Why do people develop relationship with companies? :) These entities do what needs to be done to make money.

Psychology tries to answer this.

To most, criticizing a company or product implies in criticizing their buying decision and by consequence, their intellect.

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