I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…
Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
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#592iPad OS is one of the worst operating systems in widespread use.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...
The iron law of bureaucracy happens because humans have a finite amount of time to spend doing things. Those dedicated to bureaucratic politics spend their time doing that, so they excel at that, while those dedicated to doing the work have no time for bureaucratic politics. It's related to why companies with great marketing and fund raising but mediocre or off-the-shelf technology often win over companies with deepe…
Great insight—thanks for sharing. It strikes me that bureaucracy is inherently self-perpetuating- once established, it rewards compliance over creativity, steadily shifting the culture until innovation becomes the exception rather than the rule.
Perhaps the real challenge isn't balancing innovation and marketing—it's creating a culture that genuinely rewards bold ideas and meaningful risk-taking.
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You hold down command to see the path.
Where? And how is that option displayed to the user? I also just tried it in Spotlight and Finder, and it did nothing. Which I consider a relief, because undiscoverable bullshit is worse than the feature not existing.
It's in the documentation for Spotlight:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp1008/mac
I agree that discoverability could be better, but macOS has pretty consistently had hidden power user shortcuts and modifiers, to keep the basic workflow streamlined/simple for those who don't need it.
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#595With the hopes that Apple engineers are scanning this discussion: - Using the iPhone to scan documents from Finder has recently stopped working on the second scan. I need to restart my phone to get it to work again. - iPhone mirroring is terrible: laggy, UI glitches, drops click events, scrolling is a nightmare. This is when it actually even manages to connect. - Often, with Airpods on, lowering the volume, shutting…
Good idea. I’ll add some that have annoyed me for years just in case:
- On iOS, the alarms app breaks down once you get to ~250 alarms. You can try to add/delete alarms and it’ll appear like they changed, but the change wont be saved. I can’t use the alarms app now and can’t fix it as I can’t delete alarms. By the way, would be nice to reuse alarms when creating at the same time as an existing alarm so you don’t end up with 250+ alarms in the first place.
- On iOS, the notes app breaks down in long documents (~10 pages of text with bullet points). When writing beyond that, some text will sometimes disappear only to reappear when you type some more. Other times, the cursor disappears. This only happens in long documents. All English text, mainly bullet points, often with some text pasted in.
It’s shocking to me that my iPhone 11 Pro can play gorgeous 3D video games, but can’t handle 250 alarms or 10 pages of text..
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How come you have to use Windows to play Minecraft? Are you using Bedrock edition?
I... think so? Whichever one works with Microsoft Realms, which is the $2/month solution I settled on after somewhat-getting a self hosted server to run for a little bit on my desktop. I figured that I make a six-figure salary as a software developer, I can afford $2/month so that I don't have to fucking become a sysadmin for a game server my child depends on.
Just FYI:
There are two editions, Java and Bedrock. Java is the original, available on PC and Mac, and supports programming-like technical play and mods. Bedrock is Microsoft’s reimplementation, available on all devices except Mac, and supports emotes and microtransactions. Other than that they’re largely the same game, and buying either gives you both versions. Realms supports both, but a server is one or the other, not both. There are also other managed hosting providers for Minecraft (both versions), but Realms is probably easier and cheaper for you. Java version has performance problems, but mostly because Microsoft’s code is inefficient, there are a few mods (also written in Java) that everybody uses to fix performance without affecting gameplay.
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#597I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…
Few things manage to make me as angry as a link (even if shown in form of a button) which does not open in a new background tab when clicked with the MMB. Preloading selected results in background tabs and then closing the main tab, so that I can iterate through the results of each clicked item per tab is simply so much more efficient than entering a page, hitting back, entering the next, hitting back, ... Like the i…
>which does not open in a new background tab when clicked with the MMB.
Which you notice because your page scrolls up wildly as you move to click on what should be the new tab
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Something that just works and is stable is bad business for companies these days.
Why would it be bad business for Apple? Their business model is based on selling a holistic ecosystem. They don’t have any need to chase new features and there steady stream of high margin hardware revenue is at stake.
> Their business model is based on selling a holistic ecosystem
Yeah and they succeeded in that so now it's about selling subscriptions on top of that.
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Spotlight is unbelievable bad, especially on iOS. If I type a substring of the name of an installed app, it should find it effectively instantly (say, within 1-2 frames of the input showing up). Instead, it finds it sometimes. On occasion I need to hit backspace (removing a letter that should match) to get it to find it. I struggle to imagine the software design that works so poorly.
I've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere, not just Spotlight. I have that same issue on Firefox, and with Windows Search, for example. And it makes no sense whatsoever. If "foo" matches "foobar", so should "foob". I honestly don't know how the hell can they still f up such a simple piece of technology in 2025.
> I've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere
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#600There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…
> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…
I would highly recommend giving a virtualized arm Linux installation a go, using the built in Apple frameworks who are blazingly fast.
Have a look at this sample code: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/cre...