Apple is the worst IT company, except for all the others.
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
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You’re conflating small business and large business. The moment you have investors return on investment becomes the sole motivating factor and whatever humanity the organization had will be slowly squeezed out from the top down. This isn’t ideological, it is a legal principle. A corporation taking actions that harm returns opens them up to lawsuits.
Edit: worker owned coops don’t have this issue because they are definitionally managed from the bottom up.
Additional edit: the “you” in my post is doing heavy lifting I mean both the post I replied to and the one directly above it.
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#493Also a longtime customer. I think Apple nailed it with this update. I love Liquid Glass, and not just because it’s sexier, it actually works better. The in-place context menus are far better mobile UX. Previously these were dropdown menus inherited from desktop environments which didn’t translate well to small screens (lots of fat fingering potential). The best part of the update was EMTE or the memory security feature. That’s exactly the kind of deep hardware and software integration with privacy protection that I expect from Apple alone.
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#494Regarding 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…
> Except it’s 24-100 mm.
I guess the proper claim would be to say that it has three prime lenses at 13mm, 24mm, and 100mm equivalents. The larger sensors in the 13mm and 100mm cameras, along with improvements in processing, should make for a significant upgrade over my current iPhone.
I agree that Apple's "optical quality" claims are BS. I was actually so confused initially by the claim that I had to do some research to figure out if they are doing anything special to claim "optical quality" zoom on a fixed lens. There is some computational photography going on that may muddy the waters a bit, but I'd definitely still call it a digital zoom.
That being said, the 48MP sensors do provide some latitude for cropping that wasn't available in the older 12 MP sensors. A very charitable reading would be that this "8 pro lenses in one" claim, all of which match the "optical quality" of the previous generation of sensors is the simplest way that Apple's marketing team could describe the increased versality to regular users without resorting to jargon that only photographers would understand. But still... it feels like false advertising to me.
Regarding the design - I actually view the orange color as being a nod to the Apple Watch Ultra and its orange accents. My impression is that they are going with a more rugged, masculine look with the iPhone 17 Pro. The "PRO" lettering almost feels like something you'd see in an ad for a pickup truck. This is in contrast to the more elegant, feminine look for the iPhone Air. I think this differentiation could actually be a successful strategy for Apple, and I also think that one reason that most of the tech reviewers and commenters on HN don't see the point of the Air is because that demographic tends to be largely male.
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#496Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
There is the theory that Apple wants to reset the numbering, so there will be an Air 2 and Air 3 going forward, which might eventually replace the original iPhone line.
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Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#498Also a longtime customer. I think Apple nailed it with this update. I love Liquid Glass, and not just because it’s sexier, it actually works better. The in-place context menus are far better mobile UX. Previously these were dropdown menus inherited from desktop environments which didn’t translate well to small screens (lots of fat fingering potential). The best part of the update was EMTE or the memory security featu…
I agree about the layout, not sure about the skin. First thing I did was "Reduce Transparency" in Accessibility settings.
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#499This article is dripping with Steve Jobs worship. Way too many long term Apple users have this attitude that Jobs was perfect and always right. He wasn't. He made a lot of bad decisions through his entire time at Apple. The man has been dead since 2011. His influence and the world has changed. However people like this author want to view the world through the Steve Jobs lens.
It's okay not to like something. To go "hey, I don't think this is useful or good." But the chicken little attitude of "Apple has lost its way" or "Apple has abandoned its long term customers" grabs headlines and will be forgotten in 3-4 months when most people either embrace the current market or reject it and go somewhere else.
Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
#500Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
So, turn off your firewall if you don't want to be protected.