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

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Post by foobarian »

datavirtue wrote: post #382
WalterBright wrote: post #328

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I don't use my iphone for email because I get 200-300 emails per day, and there's no way to mass delete the inbox. I have to select-delete for every email.

Why would you delete emails? I still do not get people's email habits. I used to maintain my inbox back in the days before all the normies came online. Now I just scan, read the things that interest me, and move on. Same for every email...work, school, and personal.

Why would you use a phone for email. Plenty of desktop web clients work excellent and support the click1, shift-click2 or click1, shift-downArrow selection flows that are way faster than what the phone UIs can pull off.

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Post by bluedino »

acdha wrote: post #357
WalterBright wrote: post #328

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I don't use my iphone for email because I get 200-300 emails per day, and there's no way to mass delete the inbox. I have to select-delete for every email.

You can drag down with two fingers held apart to select the messages. I use that fairly often, especially with search results. It's still not as fast as having a select-all button but does give you a chance to notice that not all of the messages are the same.

Well now I feel like an idiot because I have had an iPhone since the 4S and never knew this

How am I supposed to learn "tricks" like this? They seem to be basic stuff.

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Post by bluedino »

datavirtue wrote: post #382
WalterBright wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't use my iphone for email because I get 200-300 emails per day, and there's no way to mass delete the inbox. I have to select-delete for every email.

Why would you delete emails? I still do not get people's email habits. I used to maintain my inbox back in the days before all the normies came online. Now I just scan, read the things that interest me, and move on. Same for every email...work, school, and personal.

10GB mailbox for work

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Arrath wrote: post #151
dharmon wrote: post #143

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This is great! Thanks! I am forced to use a Windows machine sometimes for work, and to me the unpardonable sin is that Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come to my office and all my open sessions are gone. How do you turn this off?! I try turning off the setting but it randomly turns itself back on. Also, how do people set up a reasonable dev environment not built around Visual Studio? On my Mac…

> I am forced to use a Windows machine sometimes for work, and to me the unpardonable sin is that Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come to my office and all my open sessions are gone. How do you turn this off?! That's the neat part, you don't! Windows loves to revert those settings after every major update, even if you dig into the registry and scheduler and change the settings at the source. I…

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Post by sparky_ »

aejnsn wrote: post #57

Apple needs to re-hash their ancient process for handling bugs and remove the entrenchment around Radar, internally and externally. Stop outsourcing your internal tools overseas and telling product engineers ‘it is like it is’. That clearly didn’t work with customers (re: MacBook feature reversals), it also doesn’t work with engineers. Allow engineers to scratch their own itch, and solve these complexity problems in…

Ex-Apple employee here. You have it exactly.

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Post by kccqzy »

kccqzy wrote: post #132
SamuelAdams wrote: post #64

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Hey so I’ll be getting my first MacBook Pro in a couple weeks, so I’m still learning the details about OS X. I’m coming from a windows / Linux background. I thought the OS shipped with its own firewall? Would you recommend using a third party firewall despite having its own?

Apple ships the pf fireball by default. It's a powerful firewall (same as OpenBSD AFAIK) but the way Apple configures it is very permissive. You can use a utility like Murus to configure it to your liking, although the configuration is rather complicated. It's also a network-level firewall, not an application-level firewall. If you'd like an application-level firewall, you can check out Lulu or Little Snitch. Back wh…

s/fireball/firewall/

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

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Post by perryizgr8 »

This looks like an appropriate thread to post my safari rant. Here goes.

I've been trying to use safari on my laptop ever since I found out that it enables much better battery life compared to chrome (almost 2x).

But there are just so many stupid annoyances. The address bar is non-deterministic. I enter first three letters of a site I visit very often, and press enter. In chrome, it always takes me to my site. In safari it does that 9 times out of 10. But one time it will do a Google search for the entire web address of my website!? How is this even possible? I can't understand what abominable logic is running underneath that this can happen.

Another stupidity is that home and end keys either don't do anything, or they do something entirely unexpected.

I still use it because the battery usage is just so much better.

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

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Post by baud147258 »

mewse wrote: post #364
mattlondon wrote: post #200

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Last time I got a fresh Mac, the bloatware all had an icon on the dock - so that is a combination of a start menu entry AND a tray icon.

Grab it with your mouse, drag it off the dock, done. I guess I’m not really seeing what I’m supposed to be outraged about, here. Modifying the stuff in the dock on OSX isn’t difficult or unintuitive at all? Just grab the stuff you don’t want on there and drag it out, and grab the stuff you do want on there and drag it in? It’s just using the standard desktop metaphor and interface, and you’re in no danger of breaking…

> Grab it with your mouse, drag it off the dock, done.

Same thing with Windows too.

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

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Post by easton »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #304
yosito wrote: post #292

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> why there are redesigns over and over and over Because they aren't building UIs to be useful for pleasant for users anymore. Once these data-driven companies have enough users locked in, they begin optimizing the user interface to manipulate user behavior for profit. They shift from helping you do what you want to manipulating you into doing what they want you to do. It's actually gotten so bad that open source sof…

Spotify is an ever-evolving trash fire. It's become very difficult or impossible to get it to display a list of albums created by a given artist, and then play album X. "Oh no" Spotify says. "I think what you really want to do is play and then a whole bunch of random songs by other artists you've never heard of, right? That's what I'm going to do for you." I realize it's still actually possible to get Spotify to do w…

"Jeannie Becomes a Mom" by Caroline Rose plays first every single time Spotify tries to generate radio for my Indie Mix playlist. This has been happening for months. You can click "Don't play this again", but since the contents of the *Mix playlists change every day, the don't play list is wiped every day.

I wish I could universally blacklist a song (at least for a couple of months), but that only works for entire artists. I've seen the exact same complaint for the exact same song on reddit, which makes me wonder if it has something to do with their program that lets artists jump ahead in the algorithm (https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-11-02/amplifying-artist-in...).

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Post by neilpanchal »

noneeeed wrote: post #231
makecheck wrote: post #204

While this article focused primarily on things being left unmaintained, etc. there is also a huge problem with things being touched for no reason and making them worse . When handed what must be a mountain of bugs and unfinished items, why the hell did they prioritize things like breaking notifications and Safari tabs, for instance? They’re in a position where engineering resources desperately need to be closing gaps…

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…

Facepalm. I noticed that too and ranted about it: https://neil.computer/notes/apple-ux-ui-is-regressing/
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