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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 bigstrat2003 »

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…

> People still seethe about this decision even though Apple sells an excellent DAC for $9.99

Gee, I wonder why people are still mad that a change obviously intended to milk the users due money means they have to pay more money. Must be just because they hate change.

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Post by mholm »

layer8 wrote: post #43
tra3 wrote: post #4

In the original announcement thread there was some speculation that the air is a precursor to folding models down the line. I hope that’s true.

A foldable iPhone has been pretty firmly rumored for fall 2026 for a while now, I think you can take it as virtually certain: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/foldable-iphone/ I don't think the Air is merely a precursor to the foldable, however. It's rather that the technological evolution that allowed for the 5mm thin iPad Pro last year allows for the Air this year and helps with the foldable next year (and thinner M…

I'm skeptical it'll stay around, if only because the Air was not given a number designation like the other iPhones

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Post by Melatonic »

reaperducer wrote: post #402
olalonde wrote: post #272

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What's crap about Finder?

Most of the time when someone on HN complains about Finder, it's not a Finder problem. It's that the user doesn't know how to do what they want, and other people respond with the answer. Finder has its problems. But the overarching problem is that Apple has done a poor job of discoverability and letting people know how to do things. It's counterintuitive, because in most of Apple's macOS programs there are multiple w…

I think the problem is that Finder searches too much stuff by default. The same problem is true of modern windows search, iOS search, and Android.

First thing I do on all of them is have it only search local stuff. If I want to do a damn web search I'll open my browser of choice and use Kagi. On iOS I restrict it even further to only show local apps and settings. Massively improves the speed, latency, etc etc.

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Post by Melatonic »

jajko wrote: post #262
wvenable wrote: post #158

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> If the latest product seems good, buy it. If not, don’t. There is another aspect to this though. As a user of an ecosystem, you're committed in many ways. As Apple or Microsoft or Google releases a new version of their operating system you're going to run that on hardware you already own. You're going to run software that you already own on that the OS. And you're doing to use skills and knowledge of that software…

This isn't true when literally everywhere else outside of Apple, and only a problem if you are deep in their ecosystem. Why? Open standards, nothing proprietary and closed and fuck you all. I have phone that's from Samsung, earplugs from Sennheiser, thinking about buying watch from Garmin (Fenix 8 pro), have chargers and powerbanks from Anker, laptop from Dell. Bluetooth, USBC and other standards. Its beyond good eno…

Forerunner 955 is a lot cheaper (can still be bought new from Garmin) and does most of what the Fenix does !

And it's lighter

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Post by Melatonic »

xmprt wrote: post #126
snowwrestler wrote: post #120

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What would be the “great cost” of moving from an iPhone to an Android phone? I’m struggling to think of what would cost money at all, aside from the phone itself.

There's no straightforward way to migrate between an iPhone and Android so you'd spend a lot of time. Also I'm not sure if it's even possible to fully move over - for example would you be able to export your iMessages? Also, if you're fully bought into the ecosystem with Airpods and a Watch, you'd be better off replacing those (at least the watch which turns into a paperweight without an iPhone).

Personally I don't care if old messages migrate from one phone to the other (can always boot up the old phone if necessary). I sync all my contacts to my Google account which can easily be added on Android or iPhone. So far works great !

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Post by Melatonic »

immibis wrote: post #243
yzydserd wrote: post #183

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Is there data behind that or is it just anecdata? A year ago someone on HN said “I can confirm that iMessage is extremely common in Australia. WhatsApp is very uncommon, outside of people with European (and maybe South American?) friends or family to keep in touch with.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365562 My guess is you’re both expressing truths of your individual social circles but making unjustified ext…

iMessage is popular in the US because everyone has an iPhone because everyone has iMessage and everyone connects it to social status - network effects. The same reason (besides the social status) everyone uses WhatsApp in Europe. This has more to do with the way the iPhone was launched, and the American desire to own the most expensive product, than any technical merits.

They've also finally added RCS support so while you still get "green bubbles" you mostly avoid SMS

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Post by Melatonic »

riffraff wrote: post #146
killingtime74 wrote: post #141

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I've migrated back and forth. Most things are backup to cloud now. Only thing missing was Signal messages last time and I think they now fixed that. Do people still use plain SMS now?

How about photos? Moving from android's Google photo integration to apples icloud photos integration seems.. complicated

My solution was to use both - they behave a bit differently and I figure it can't hurt to get two sets of backups (I do also get iCloud for free though).

Google photos is definitely easier to export and backup to my windows PC although Apple does provide a half decent iCloud client now for windows. It's a bit janky and took awhile for me to get a proper pipeline (you can accidently delete your cloud copy by doing the wrong thing).

One thing I really miss about Android was the ability to just plug in via USB-C to any computer and backup all the photos (and then remove them from the local phone). Google Photos would retain its full quality copy this way and I would free up phone space and have a full quality copy on my local machine (plus local external drive). Try this on an iPhone and it's slow as hell (even though it has USB-C), often fails partway through a large copy, and when you delete the photos locally I believe iCloud deletes their copy as well (even if you have plenty of cloud storage). I understand it's a "sync" tool technically but there's really no reason for it to be restricted in this way.

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

argsnd wrote: post #290
fergie wrote: post #289

> the dimensions of the iPhone 5/5S/SE make this iPhone more ‘Air’ than the iPhone Air. If you want a slightly more recent example, the iPhone 12 mini and 13 mini have the real lightness that could make sense in a phone. I strongly agree. Many tech people who I know personally strongly agree. I feel like St Steve Jobs would have strongly agreed. I really, really want a new iPhone with iPhone 5 dimensions.

They made the mini phones and it turns out nobody bought them because the people who cry out for them are very loud but very few.

Millions of people bought them. That isn't "nobody".

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

AlexandrB wrote: post #437
wrs wrote: post #49

I think the only way you can consider iOS “amateurish” is according to a ridiculously high standard for phone software that Apple itself is responsible for normalizing.

I just want them to fix bugs and stop with the unnecessary redesigns. Each redesign seems to increase the focus on aesthetics at the expense of usability. And the bugs remain.

That's what I want from software development in general. Stop redoing the UI because your designers got bored. It is good like it is, leave it be. Literally nobody likes when the UI changes drastically overnight, stop it!
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