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If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

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Re: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

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Post by blep-arsh »

Solstinox wrote: post #398

It’s because everyone and their grandmother is focused on caking on new stuff on top of the old stuff. Features! Features! Features! And it’s coming to every bit of software and technology you “own” or rent. Imagine if you put some product managers in charge of a standard hard cover book. Within two years it would have a tanning attachment.

User behavior monitoring and data collection tech would need to be mass-deployed first, in order to gather metrics for product improvement purposes. Not a problem for a sufficiently innovative company, I guess.

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Post by concinds »

drewg123 wrote: post #363
laurent92 wrote: post #331

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At 20% iOS deactivates the powersaving mode, I think. At 80% iOS notifies that it is charged enough, so you can unplug if you want to avoid supercharging it.

Sure, but do you know how can I disable these bings? Or even where to find them in the settings? This is what's impossible to google for... They're incredibly annoying and prevent me from charging my phone when I sleep.

As far as I'm aware there's nothing in the OS that should do that, at least by default. Perhaps an accessibility option. Or your charger is finnicky and somehow disconnects during charging a few times, but you say the sound is different. If you record it, and post it on reddit, they might be able to identify it.

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Post by pram »

drewg123 wrote: post #363
laurent92 wrote: post #331

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At 20% iOS deactivates the powersaving mode, I think. At 80% iOS notifies that it is charged enough, so you can unplug if you want to avoid supercharging it.

Sure, but do you know how can I disable these bings? Or even where to find them in the settings? This is what's impossible to google for... They're incredibly annoying and prevent me from charging my phone when I sleep.

The silent mode switch? I’ve never heard them.

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Post by scalar42 »

gcanyon wrote: post #239
noneeeed wrote: post #231

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The current UX of notifications is terrible . After months of using it I still don't understand the mental model. A notification comes up, I hover and wait for the cross to appear and click it. But then some time later I unlock my machine or something happens and apparantly all my notifications are still there for some reason and I have to clear them again, only this time they are in groups and I have to clear multip…

For me the issue is notifications that appear, then disappear, and I can’t find them again, or what they refer to. If it’s important enough to do a notification, it’s important enough to keep in a notification log that I can go through chronologically, search, group, sort, etc. I will high five the person who tells me how that feature exists and I’ve just missed it.

The notification history feature does exist, on Android (11 I'm using). It can show you both the recently dismissed notifications and the ones in the last 24 hours, grouping by apps.

Re: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

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Post by blep-arsh »

rytcio wrote: post #362
Skunkleton wrote: post #7

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I think that the slip in quality we are seeing is a result of increased complexity more than anything else.

Computers really are not doing much more today than they were in the early 2000s. Despite the massive increases in home computational power, the only thing that is really visibly improved is the graphical fidelity of video games. All other software is doing the same stuff it did 20 years ago...just worse. Bad software is more due to needing to ship stuff ASAP for marketing, the board of directors, and for the investo…

I can Cmd-C on one device and Cmd-V on another. It works wirelessly and securely without explicit network configurarion and even without network access. The amount of complexity that enables this simple feature is staggering if you look into the implementation.

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Post by dkersten »

ericd wrote: post #280
dkersten wrote: post #260

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Dunno what you mean by peripherals, at least ones that don't work on Linux, but the other two categories work just fine. Gaming has come a long way thanks to Valve and their work on Proton.

I'm guessing you're not someone who would describe themselves as a "gamer"? EDIT: (I don't mean this in a mean way, just to say that people who care a lot about being able to play specific games probably still won't be satisfied without a Windows box).

I play plenty of games and have a Steam library of ~400 or so games. I haven't had a Windows install in a few years. The only issues I've had with Windows games on Linux, using Proton on Steam, is that it doesn't work in Wayland (but every game I've tried works fine under X, of course I do check ProtonDB.com before buying games that don't have official Linux support).

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Post by sneak »

azinman2 wrote: post #395
aunty_helen wrote: post #306

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Hostname: ocsp.apple.com IP Addresses: 2600:1402:e::b833:965b 2600:1402:e::b833:9661 2600:1402:e::b833:9669 2600:1402:e::b833:966a + 17 more TCP Port: http (80) Protocol: TCP Connected: no Connects: 0 allowed, 7,359 denied First Activity: 2/11/21, 22:20 Last Activity: 5h 29m ago Yea sorry, sneak's right, it's still going port 80.

Perhaps I'm wrong. I thought encrypted checks came out with Monterey? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491 (bottom) What data is actually going over OCSP? I thought it was only ever checking for revocation and not actually sending app data, and I believe only ever happens when you want to take an app out of quarantine versus every app launch. You can always disable gatekeeper if you so please.

It does check for revocation. Using the developer's unique certificate ID, which, for the vast majority of developers, uniquely identifies an app. Over unencrypted HTTP.

OCSP over unencrypted http has not yet been replaced. I believe that the constellation of apps (identified by proxy by their developer IDs which are transmitted) can in a lot of cases uniquely identify a system, given a sufficient number of apps installed/used.

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Post by thedougd »

blep-arsh wrote: post #391
hintymad wrote: post #264

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This seems the problem of every big company. Eventually they become slow and their priority becomes puzzling to people outside of the companies. Complexity aside, my theory is that as a company grows, the headcount always grows faster than the quantity of work, and more people become obsessed with visibility and promotion, which leads to promotion-oriented and visibility-oriented project planning. Consequently, produ…

As soon as the company starts collecting metrics and sets up A/B testing infrastructure people can just implement whatever they want, as long as they keep improving these metrics. Very often there's no one who can take a look at the resulting mess and decide enough is enough. It's all just self-congratulatory meetings with extremely optimistic charts and an occassional employee complaining about the product being utt…

I'm convinced A/B testing done wrong is what brought us step sisters stuck in washing machines.

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Post by woodson »

salamandersauce wrote: post #230
Tagbert wrote: post #212

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IMovie, GarageBand and iWork are not installed by default and you can remove them at any time. Recent Mac OS updates are monolithic signed binaries that load into the protected disk partitions reserved for the OS. This is security feature to limit which processes can modify the OS. The downside is that it can’t do differential updates. I hope that, at some point, Apple will work out how to securely do differential up…

When did they stop including them because they were absolutely included on both the Macs I bought a few years ago...

The are still included and installed by default.

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Post by MikusR »

noir_lord wrote: post #128
freediver wrote: post #18

Yesterday I prepared a few years old Windows laptop for my daughter to use in school. It took me a few hours just to install updates, remove bloatware (my oh my, the amount is staggering!) and fix privacy settings. And this was for Windows 10 which I hear is a mild version of a mess that Windows 11 is. I was instantly reminded why I appreciate Apple software more.

I put the boy on an old Dell Vostro running Fedora. Installation and updates took about 30 minutes. Updating the machine is a `sudo dnf update` and done. Though I did get in trouble when I shelled into his machine did and update and rebooted without checking he was using it first - killing his call to his (not)girlfriend in the process. He's just start secondary (high) school and they are using Google Classroom so al…

Was that a few year old installation of Fedora?
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