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

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Post by latexr »

riversflow wrote: post #470
gcanyon wrote: post #239

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For me the issue is notifications that appear, then disappear, and I can’t find them again, or what they refer to. If it’s important enough to do a notification, it’s important enough to keep in a notification log that I can go through chronologically, search, group, sort, etc. I will high five the person who tells me how that feature exists and I’ve just missed it.

> important enough to do a notification, it’s important enough to keep in a notification log that I can go through chronologically, search, group, sort, etc. In light of a grandchild comment to this one about notification center on iPhone, I'll offer that on Mac you can do a two-finger swipe from the right side of the touch pad to get notification center. It doesn't have search, but they are grouped in stacks chronol…

> on Mac you can do a two-finger swipe from the right side of the touch pad to get notification center.

Or click the clock.

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Post by latexr »

dharmon wrote: post #143
superasn wrote: post #59

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1. Yes first thing I run if I ever have to use a Windows PC is this little gem called Shutup 10 (1). 2. Then there is another software called 10AppsManager (2) to remove further bloatware like Onedrive, Skype, etc. 3. After that I visit ninite.com (3) to get the usual software without toolbars and spyware. 4. For other software like ffmpeg I use choco or chocolatey (4). I am now a full time linux user but this was th…

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…

> Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come to my office and all my open sessions are gone.

You’re not safe from reboots even if you’re actively using the machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHafyiDTR0

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

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Post by jleyank »

This is a management problem. I’ve worked in commercial niche-market software for a long time and it was VERY rare when management accepted a release with “nothing new in it”. Features and applications were sellable, but bug fixes were not. Or worse, they were an admission we screwed up. Also, seeing all those developers “doing nothing” really bothers many managers.

Is this good for user-helpful software? No, of course not, but the company’s goal is revenue.

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Post by tim333 »

Sometimes I think people in the west are a little spoiled. I mean I bought an M1 Air with Big Sur in June and it's been basically flawless, but everyone is like Apple is doomed because there's some subtle UI imperfection somewhere. Meanwhile there's still war, dictatorship and hunger in many parts of the world.

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Post by 1123581321 »

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.

Neat! I was in the other sub-thread suggesting the slow one-finger version. Hopefully a few other apps use the same paradigm.

Walter Bright, is it possible you run an older version of iOS or that you use a different app than Mail? I completely believe what you’re experiencing; just trying to think why it’s happening to you…

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Post by comeonseriously »

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…

> Which I get, on some level who wants to work on the broken things?

I love working on broken things just as much as working on new things. Sometimes the reason something is broken is because it was a difficult problem. I love those difficult problems.

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Post by nickpp »

Anunayj wrote: post #222
lghh wrote: post #133

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> do the work and learn to write a native app Why? I want it to run on all platforms. That's one of the best things about the web. I'd rather just not support Safari than write and deploy separate MacOS, Windows, and Mobile applications. My and most user-bases agree.

+ I don't want my users to download to have download a native binary that has unrestricted access to filesystem and I need a Apple Device to develop even if it's the smallest thing in the world. Web browsers are the best of both worlds, secure enclaved sandboxes, easily reachable by just a link, and powerful enough to do many basic tasks, and cross compatible.

Web browsers are also huge, complexity-ridden, resource-hungry monsters long past their original mandate and currently well on their way to become a gigantic mess that include everything and the kitchen sink.

As an user, I do not mind downloading and installing slim and fast native application which take advantage of the hardware my devices provide and integrate nicely with my OS.

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Post by denimnerd42 »

Tsiklon wrote: post #455
denimnerd42 wrote: post #452

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i think lack of application open selection is worse. like there’s no way to get a 3rd party reddit app to open on a browser link

Apollo has a safari extension that will auto open Reddit links in Apollo.

oh interesting.. new in iOS 15

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Post by yosito »

pjmlp wrote: post #494
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…

GNOME begs to differ though.

Is GNOME a data-driven, for-profit company?

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Post by concinds »

AlexandrB wrote: post #88
alphaomegacode wrote: post #70

As an anecdotal example that may be relevant, I wanted to upgrade to Monterey and my Mac Mini said there wasn't enough room. Hooked up a Western Digital external drive that I had used on previous Macs and launched Time Machine. And that's when it started. Time Machine presented what seemed like a stack of Finder windows in the middle, a timeline with hash marks on the right-side and the only button highlighted was th…

Time Machine has been neglected for so long . The UI was never great for power users, but at least it worked. For a novice computer user it was a pretty good "set it and forget it" experience. In the last 3 years it has become so unreliable (every time it tries to backup it claims the backup is corrupted and needs to be re-created) that I've given up and switched to Carbon Copy Cloner.

> every time it tries to backup it claims the backup is corrupted and needs to be re-created

I had that problem repeatedly, but used the same backup drive with Monterey and it worked flawlessly, with better feedback (TM's menu gave a percentage on the pre-copy, "counting file changes" stage), so I was pleasantly surprised.

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