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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 cameldrv »

sippeangelo wrote: post #338
olalonde wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's crap about Finder?

Every time I need to browse to a specific path I have to google it, because there is no path input anywhere. (It's Shift+Cmd+G of course)

They also screwed up cmd-shift-g a few versions ago where if you type, say, /Users/me/Documents, it puts you in /Users/me. Now you have to put in /Users/me/Documents/ if you actually want that folder. Then of course the autocomplete wasn’t changed as well, so if you start typing and then cursor down to the completion and hit enter, it doesn’t fill in the slash, so it goes to the parent folder. You have to cursor down, press tab, so it fills in the trailing slash, then hit enter.

It’s theoretically a small annoyance, but it gets me a few times a week since I had muscle memory for the old, correct way. I’ve filed several radars over the years and never heard back. It’s one of those things that makes me want to get a job at Apple, fix the bug, and quit.

Incidentally, this was one of the nice little things that made me switch to the Mac many years ago. There wasn’t any way to my knowledge that you could switch to a path in windows by typing it out from inside explorer.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by jrm4 »

makingstuffs wrote: post #434
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…

Save your loyalty for people that matter in your actual life. There isn’t a single business in existence that cares about you. Even companies in the business of keeping you alive will only do so while doing so makes them a profit. I say this as the example of the local handyman is one where you will matter more. It’s a human relationship with a real person not a fake relationship with one person and a spreadsheet

Yeah, this is dead wrong.

I'll go in the other direction. With a few exceptions, it is unfortunately true that "a business" isn't just "a way to make money," it's VERY OFTEN "the only reasonable way to accomplish a big-ish goal involving multiple people."

I say this as someone who started a business incidentally, my father had a big project that he and I loved the idea of, and I knew I could put together a good team to do the web part of it, and so I did. Money was NOT the primary motivator.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

chupchap wrote: post #394

The OS might be getting worse, but I can't think of a laptop that holds up to Macbook Air at ita price point.

Until my 15" MBAir purchase last year, it had been seventeen years since I'd purchased a laptop (edit: M2Pro Mini was first new computer in fifteen years).

CostCo had a $850 deal for an M3 Air, and as soon as I picked it up the sales clerk was printing my purchase ticket. It is so light, and the feet actually seem like they'll last a few years (unlike the solid-body designs since 2009).

Keyboard is fantastic. Battery life is unreal. Screen is beautiful.

I have been a full-time Macintosh user since 1991 (I remember fully 68k->PPC->x86->Silicon), and only recently set up my first Linux machine (because the modern OEM OS's are increasingly too invasive with AI'ification), a re-purposed MacPro5,1 #4evr

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Post by snowwrestler »

riebalas wrote: post #459
freetime2 wrote: post #76

Regarding 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…

Except it’s 24-100 mm. They’re scamming with the 8x “optical quality” claims. Every year the scams (aka marketing) get deeper, Apple wasn’t as bad in the past. The “Air” one is probably a test if they could stop those camera scams and simplify the phone maybe focusing on some other things. It barely even matters, one lens is enough, if you need more you’ll want a proper camera anyway. This year I’d say the phone itse…

> orange colors — probably some “diversity” team though it would be funny, because they don’t like the president

For sure, anything orange is obviously a reference to the U.S. president. I’m hearing that liberals are planning a mass protest of carving scary faces into pumpkins in about 6 weeks.

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Post by fragmede »

Marsymars wrote: post #429
fragmede wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're fucking disgusting. You'd force people to use Teams?

Hah, I laughed. But seriously, I don’t love Teams overall, but for business video conferencing, what’s actually better? I’d take Teams over Zoom or Google Meet. Haven’t tried any others.

Phew, wasn't sure that would land :)

For video conferencing only, it's pretty okay. It's that it's terrible for instant messaging and group chats and everything else that it gets used for that makes it an exercise in getting papercut to death.

Meet is a lot friendlier about not having to download a client and just use a web browser, so that's nice for clients. It's not great for messaging and group chats either though.

The problem with Zoom is that a lot of people use it for personal use, but aren't tech savvy enough, so occasionally you'll get PantsPooper69 joining a business meeting until they change it right after joining, if they notice.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

browningstreet wrote: post #438

During every OS, design, logo, website update.. there are the common complaints. The new is worse than what came before. When the thing that came before was launched, it was worse than what preceded it, but is now the thing the complainer can't live without. I usually try and sit out those initial waves of time where all the emotioning happens.. but I have to admit, I'm pretty unhappy with Liquid Glass. Too many "dai…

> dumping my iPhone for a Pixel (well, not really, I can't warm up to the Android issues)

What issues are there with android phones, compared to iphones?

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by riebalas »

snowwrestler wrote: post #465
riebalas wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except it’s 24-100 mm. They’re scamming with the 8x “optical quality” claims. Every year the scams (aka marketing) get deeper, Apple wasn’t as bad in the past. The “Air” one is probably a test if they could stop those camera scams and simplify the phone maybe focusing on some other things. It barely even matters, one lens is enough, if you need more you’ll want a proper camera anyway. This year I’d say the phone itse…

> orange colors — probably some “diversity” team though it would be funny, because they don’t like the president For sure, anything orange is obviously a reference to the U.S. president. I’m hearing that liberals are planning a mass protest of carving scary faces into pumpkins in about 6 weeks.

Not that big of a stretch. Apple numerous of times was involved politically, like disabling parts of Apple Music and encouraging to protest because a drug addict was killed. Also the pride wallpapers, what is that all about? What if I want MAGA wallpapers? Wouldn’t people mind some of those on their iPhones?

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Post by pxc »

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

> The Finder made all the same mistakes as Windows did

Aren't these basically true, even now? If I could easily, completely remove the Dock and Finder, I would.

Launching apps via search (e.g., Spotlight) is quicker and easier than hunting for icons visually (especially given the amount of clutter on the Dock by default), and so is switching apps via search (e.g., Contexts, Witch, etc.).

Finder is the least capable file manager I've ever used since the Windows 3 days. If I could replace it wholesale with CyberDuck or something, I would.

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Post by stackedinserter »

Aurornis wrote: post #404
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…

Don’t forget the waves of rage when Apple removed the CD-ROM drive from laptops. Or when USB Type A ports disappeared in favor of USB-C ports. Or when the iPhone dropped the headphone jack. People still seethe about this decision even though Apple sells an excellent DAC for $9.99 that rates extremely well when tested by the audiophile obsessives and is easy to leave permanently attached to your headphones. There are…

> whenever anything changes

Not any changes, but those that force me to change from solutions that worker perfectly well (like 3.5 jack, or USB-A, or RJ45, or HDMI) to shitty tech that rarely work well, like dongles, bluetooth audio, or usb-hdmi converters (gosh I hate them, they're all crap).

Just before you mention them, CDs and floppy disks were never good tech, nobody misses them.

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