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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 Retinal7467 »

freedomben wrote: post #510
Retinal7467 wrote: post #492

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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 defi…

I think you misread. The GGP post did not differentiate by small or large, nor did GP

Hi, thank you for your comment. I have clarified that I was responding to both of the parent posts.

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

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Post by rectang »

J_Shelby_J wrote: post #505
op00to wrote: post #426

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I've literally never seen any of those problems with Airpods in my meetings, and I'm in meetings A LOT. I can't remember the last time someone joined with audio issues in general! I personally use a Plantronics DECT headset which is ~12 years old and on its third battery, but otherwise an excellent workhorse. If I couldn't get another one of these headsets, I'd probably move to Airpods.

Please don’t. All of Apple products and especially the AirPods have horrid microphones that cause me physical discomfort to listen to.

The mic on [wired] Earpods sounds great because you can make the design work when the mic is on the wire down where lapel mics go.

It's harder to get Airpods to sound great because the mic must be located inside the ear.

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

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Post by leptons »

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.

So because "Grandma" keeps doing stupid things with tech she doesn't understand, that now means the rest of us have to suffer for it?

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

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Post by leptons »

dingnuts wrote: post #439
makingstuffs wrote: post #434

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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

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

You get it. Being a regular at my local sushi place (once a week typically), they would always give me free extra stuff, and stuff that wasn't on the menu for free. The chefs would also try out new (delicious) dishes on me. Why would I ever go anywhere else?? That's loyalty to a business. I recommend them to everyone.

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

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Post by leptons »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #251
flohofwoe wrote: post #211

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> 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 ;)

> 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) I have the exact opposite opinion. I loathe Windows Explorer, and relatively simply stuff like presenting a tree view is apparently some weird magic trick that only Apple has figured out how to do. Browsing SMB shares (or any other networked storage) is one shortcut away (cmd+k), and…

>I loathe Windows Explorer, and relatively simply stuff like presenting a tree view is apparently some weird magic trick that only Apple has figured out how to do.

Is this a joke? This has to be a joke. Finder is so lame compared to Explorer that I'm reading it as a joke.

>Browsing SMB shares (or any other networked storage) is one shortcut away (cmd+k), and I don't need to visit control panel to enable weird subsystems that expose services on my machine to connect to other machines.

Uh... MacOS is nowhere near easier with SMB shares than Windows. You are dead wrong about all of this. SMB works out-of-the-box with Windows, you open Explorer and the "Network" is there, which will show available network shares. You could make it an icon on the desktop if you wanted to and then just click to open (not how I would do it, but you could). Or you can type \\servername in the Explorer address bar and get a list of all its shares, and there are probably many other ways for different use cases too.

MacOS has been difficult with SMB shares for us, especially with Finder - when we mount an SMB share in Finder they just stop responding eventually for no reason, there's no error - they just can't be reached anymore, requiring us to re-mount the share. But on Windows they always just work, no exception, no problem, 100% of the time - and no, that is not an exaggeration. There's very few things in tech that I would say works 100% of the time for me, but SMB on Windows is one of them.

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

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Post by leptons »

chrisandchris wrote: post #527
skeletal88 wrote: post #516

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Finder isnt crap? Why can't i paste a path and just go to it like I can in Windows or KDE, why can't I cut and paste files? Why do i have to open 2 separate windows and drag the files between them? Who decided that it is somehow useful to leave an applocation running when you close its window? There are so many silly and stupid small things wrong with os x

You can: Copy current path: Option + Command + C [1] Cut & paste: Alt + Command + Move (actually moves the file) It's just bad that these simple things are very much hidden. [1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/47216/copying-the-...

It moves the file? That's not the use case. The use case is copying a path and pasting it into the address bar of Explorer, and then Explorer showing the contents of the path. No file action is implied.

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

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Post by LgWoodenBadger »

skeletal88 wrote: post #516
8fingerlouie wrote: post #251

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> 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) I have the exact opposite opinion. I loathe Windows Explorer, and relatively simply stuff like presenting a tree view is apparently some weird magic trick that only Apple has figured out how to do. Browsing SMB shares (or any other networked storage) is one shortcut away (cmd+k), and…

Finder isnt crap? Why can't i paste a path and just go to it like I can in Windows or KDE, why can't I cut and paste files? Why do i have to open 2 separate windows and drag the files between them? Who decided that it is somehow useful to leave an applocation running when you close its window? There are so many silly and stupid small things wrong with os x

Shift-Command-G - "Go to folder..."

"Why can't i paste a path and just go to it like I can in Windows or KDE?"

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

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

gigatexal wrote: post #415
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #347

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>the MacBook line of hardware is the best it's ever been Only after 5 years of the worst it's ever been, something triggered a complete change of course and it's easy to forget how utterly awful the butterfly era was. A lot of the rest of Apple feels like butterfly era thinking.

You can dwell on the past and be grumpy about it or you can enjoy the present and look happily towards the future. The latter is what I’m doing.

Only got better because we complained about it so much.

"How do you know its bad it isn't even out yet" is how things just get worse and worse

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

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Post by Telaneo »

MangoToupe wrote: post #231
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #137

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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 have proper over-ear headphones for when I want to listen to music. I'm not sure what ANC is or why it's worth hundreds of dollars—hence why I said 90%. I don't know what the h1 chip has to do with the fast switching—surely this is a bluetooth protocol detail, yea?

> I'm not sure what ANC is or why it's worth hundreds of dollar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

> I don't know what the h1 chip has to do with the fast switching—surely this is a bluetooth protocol detail, yea?

A detail apparently no-one else bothers to deal with. The amount of hardware out there that does bluetooth the worst way possible is horrendous, and I will gladly pay extra to not have those in my life.

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

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Post by khamidou »

hamdingers wrote: post #87
khamidou wrote: post #34

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Unclear – I assume many in their audience also break their phones somewhat regularly, they'd probably appreciate not having to drop $99 or even more abroad for a battery replacement.

Users who break their phone regularly are not breaking the battery.

They do break their screen often though, which is what op mentioned
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