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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 Jensson »

nemomarx wrote: post #440
dingnuts wrote: post #439

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spoken like someone who has never been a regular at a small business. there are all kinds of benefits when you get to know the guy who owns you favorite pizza shop for instance

I think that falls under a real relationship with a specific person. You can definitely have those, but a larger Corp isn't going to let employees do that very much

A small business owner has much more control over it than a local manager in a big corporation does so there are more benefits to becoming friends with them. That doesn't happen with large companies since there is no singular "owner" in public companies, even the CEO has to listen to the profit demands of the investors.

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

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Post by TylerE »

card_zero wrote: post #352
TylerE wrote: post #348

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That was because MacOS classic couldn’t multitask

Sure it could, it had cooperative multitasking. Inside Macintosh instructed programmers on the importance of politely giving way to other processes. https://archive.org/details/inside-macintosh-1992-1994/1992-... WaitNextEvent (hmm, a Windows call has the same name, but functions differently I think).

Multitasking via mandatory manual yields isn’t.

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Post by browningstreet »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #467
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?

The functional ones in https://feddit.org/post/18353777

...seem worse than iOS UI issues.

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

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Post by browningstreet »

adeelk93 wrote: post #457
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…

In Safari - swipe up from the dots as a quick way to get to tabs. Avoids the double tap. Nothing says intuitive like hidden gestures!

Yeah, I just learned about that, TBH. Never knew about it. I'm still hardwired to tap in the lower right corner for tabs. I haven't retrained my monkey brain just yet...

I'll concede that all this Safari tab stuff, with the workarounds, is less problematic to me than the Apple Watch face swiping thing when it arose. They conceded that too, but it took a .1 release to do it.

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #380
nottorp wrote: post #378

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Locking down the OS so you can't install or uninstall functionality at all is not simplicity.

It is if Grandma keeps downloading scams and installing them.

No, even then it still isn't. A device should not protect you from making bad decisions. It should be an aid in making good choices, not a nanny keeping you safe because you can't be trusted to do better.

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Post by mikeg8 »

i80and wrote: post #456
dingnuts wrote: post #439

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spoken like someone who has never been a regular at a small business. there are all kinds of benefits when you get to know the guy who owns you favorite pizza shop for instance

As a good friend of a restaurant owner I have personal experience with this and you're friends with the people , not the company . Restaurant owner friend transferred his company to new ownership, and I would never ask for the kinds of goodies the previous owner gave me. Because it was the owner, not the company, with which I had a relationship.

Splitting hairs. At the time your friend owned it, the company and people were one and the same.

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

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Post by waffletower »

flohofwoe wrote: post #211
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 Finder made all the same mistakes as Windows did. 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), and the UNIX terminal is pretty much needed to make a Mac usable in the first place - which is fine though, because the UNIX-ness was exactly why I switched to Mac ;)

While I agree with your overall 4-letter assessment, Windows Explorer in any so-called "heyday" was always deserving of your same 4-letter assessment in comparison to Apple Finder.

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

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Post by const_cast »

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

I have some loyalty in open source project I rely on and I regularly donate to them, particularly KDE and thunderbird.

Maybe loyalty is the wrong word - if they really go to left field, I would abandon them.

But I have a lot of faith in their design decisions and overall vision. Their software works, continues to work, and has always worked amazingly for me.

I also feel the same way about Firefox but donating to Firefox isn't like donating to thunderbird.

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Post by BeetleB »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #137
MangoToupe wrote: post #77

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Airpods are very, very expensive compared to competitors with 90% of the same features. I've been using a $30 set for several years and the main drawback is it's difficult to switch devices—because apple doesn't allow third parties to use access the proprietary comms that allows this for airpods. Also, I think the white is ugly. But kids seem to love it.

I doubt very seriously your $30 headphones sound as good as AirPods Pro or have the ANC. But you can buy much cheaper headphones with the H1 chip for fast switching between devices by buying one of the Beats headphones. I love my $60 Beats Fiex with the double flange ear tips for traveling.

I bought my Soundcore A40 for about $60 (occasionally goes on sale for $40).

I don't doubt the Airpods Pro is better. But not "pay an extra $200 better".[1] My ANC is pretty decent. Sound quality's quite good. Adjusts to my hearing frequencies. Etc.

(The A40 has a much better battery life).

[1] Unless you need a hearing aid. Then it's a steal.

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