I'm glad to see Apple getting more and more flak for this. Hopefully they'll do something about it.
Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
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#412Loyal user for 10+ years. Apple is getting old and their apps, particularly iTunes, have transformed into an atrocity.
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It does suck the repairability is next to none but they have the best looking hardware out there. I have yet to see any other manufacture come close to what Apple can do hardware wise. A metal laptop enclosure is basically unheard of outside of Apple sadly. I would like to see someone step up.
I am typing on a $500 Asus flip that is all aluminum with a glass touchscreen. It is very nice, but I regret the OS (Windows 8.1,locked in place using the hosts file to avoid MS upgrades). The issue I see is that the other side of the fence is not so sweet either. You cannot release a buggy OS that leads to my laptop bricking itself 3 times, and then jump right into another one with a hyper-aggresive update cycle, an…
I feel you. This is why I stick with Apple, however.
They may be declining, but they still have an overall "least frustrating" experience, especially when I have to help my family members with Windows 8 or 10, or need to Futz with my nephew's Linux setup.
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> anyone who used the whole integrated Apple software suite and never looked elsewhere has been missing out on some seriously nice features this whole time Ditto for anyone not using the Apple ecosystem. Better tested drivers installed by default, no OS license hassles, no issues created by malfunctioning (or maliciously functioning) antivirus, top download sites weren't infested with malware (no hunt for the real DL…
> no-additional-cost professional-grade IDE since 2003 You paid for that by spending $XXX more than a PC on your Mac. (posted from a mac but I make no delusion that I didn't pay for XCode)
Every Apple user paid for that, so you're getting subsidized heavily by iPhone/iPad users.
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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.
Yes, I learned my lesson of thinking 4GB was good enough.
It's better to have 8GB minimum, but best of all to get as much ram as possible on a machine.
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As someone who in general is a huge Apple fan, I feel Apple Music was entirely avoidable mistake, and detracts from their brand. They need to rethink this app/service.
Respectfully disagree. I'm a professional classical musician, and I LOVE the access to a huge library of music that Apple Music gives me.
I don't have an issue with Apple Music -- just with the hard sell.
I have a huge collection synced to iTunes Match, and I get to spend quality time in a facility with heavily proxied wifi and no cellular coverage. I don't really need a streaming service.
Apple used to be pay more and deal with less bullshit. Add the bullshit, and the value prop changes.
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> If you want to develop software, then you are pretty much stuck with XCode There are like nine different versions of Emacs for OS X...
But no software even close to Visual Studio, that's the point.
Quite a few people would respond to that by saying:
> There are like nine different versions of Emacs for OS X...
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Do you have any recommendations for a music player that isn't iTunes?
When I started using Android I subscribed to Google Play Music. It allowed me to upload my music collection, including songs that we're on Google Play. It's not matching, like Apple. It's literally just taking my music and allowing me to store it in the cloud and download it onto mobile devices. It's really handy so far and makes much more sense compared to iTunes. Plus there's no "sync" concept once you're there. Yo…
I don't know how the iTunes matching works, but Play Music does swap out your version of a song with theirs if they see they're the same thing. I think this has only been within the last year or so that they started doing this though. I don't have any personal files anymore, so I can't comment on how accurate it is.
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#419My take on this is not that Apple has gotten worse, but that they have actually gotten better at cloud services. Whereas no one actually used MobileMe or iDisk, their new generation of cloud services is actually being used. It's true that they're losing ground because Google has defined a bar for cloud services that they can't reach, but they are trying and not entirely failing at it. The secondary aspect is the surf…
> My take on this is not that Apple has gotten worse, but that they have actually gotten better at cloud services. Which isn't saying much, since they're still terrible. Their cloud-synced Notes.app is almost unusable; every time I add a note on the phone there's maybe a one-in-three chance it'll sync to the desktop immediately, a one-in-three chance it'll sync the next day, and a one-in-three chance it'll appear thr…
I have used that Notes app every day since 2007 and still have notes dating back to that time.
Sync works fine (and near immediately if you refresh on a device) but doesn't actively push, I find.
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#420I 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…
Spotlight has been straight broken for me since 2008, especially when using large external drives (stuck "scanning" for >5 hours every time the drive is power cycles, using a whole core). I just gave up and now forceably disable spotlight.