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Apple is really treating their entire iPhone ecosystem like Microsoft did with their Windows OS back in the late 90s/early 2000s.. with complete arrogance and w

by steven2012 11y ago

Apple is really treating their entire iPhone ecosystem like Microsoft did with their Windows OS back in the late 90s/early 2000s.. with complete arrogance and without any urgency. They are so comfortable in their success that they're are really badly losing focus on making the best software products they can. It makes me wonder, who in Apple is fucking this up so badly? Does no one care, or do they honestly think things are going great? I have to change my computer that I need to sync my iPhone with, and it's going to be very painful. Why? This is 2015. Why doesn't anyone in Apple with their thousands and thousands of highly paid engineers not care, and which VP or PM is responsible for their software offering now being the best it could be? I would love to know.

therein 11y ago
I used to work for Apple as a Software Engineer (in fact as a part of a team very relevant to this issue) and left very quickly. It was the most uninspiring place I had ever worked or even interviewed at.
parasubvert 11y ago
"I have to change my computer that I need to sync my iPhone with, and it's going to be very painful. Why? " I have the opposite question for you - why is it painful? Assuming you have a Mac, you just restore from a Time machine backup with Migration Assistant. A bit of massaging is required getting passwords reset, etc., and your new computer is basically identical to the old one. I just did this a couple of months ago moving my personal Macbook Pro account & apps to my family iMac. On the other hand, the same applies for any iOS device if you're on iCloud. A few months back, a friend broke their phone badly on a trip, I wiped one of my phones and handed it to them to use. They restored their stuff in a couple of hours, and were productive again. When they returned it, I restored and had my old phone back identical to what it was in a couple of hours. Other than a couple of passwords and the endless series annoying taps when first initializing an iOS phone (this could be much better), there were no problems. YMMV, but this stuff mostly works for me.
- steven2012 11y ago
  I'm currently syncing on a very old MacBook and I want to move to my work MacBook. I can't Timemachine it.
  - parasubvert 11y ago
    For what it's worth, you can direct-connect the Migration Assistant as well via FireWire USB or (I think?) Ethernet.... I remember doing this back to the PowerBook days.

therein 11y ago

I used to work for Apple as a Software Engineer (in fact as a part of a team very relevant to this issue) and left very quickly. It was the most uninspiring place I had ever worked or even interviewed at.

parasubvert 11y ago

"I have to change my computer that I need to sync my iPhone with, and it's going to be very painful. Why? " I have the opposite question for you - why is it painful? Assuming you have a Mac, you just restore from a Time machine backup with Migration Assistant. A bit of massaging is required getting passwords reset, etc., and your new computer is basically identical to the old one. I just did this a couple of months ago moving my personal Macbook Pro account & apps to my family iMac. On the other hand, the same applies for any iOS device if you're on iCloud. A few months back, a friend broke their phone badly on a trip, I wiped one of my phones and handed it to them to use. They restored their stuff in a couple of hours, and were productive again. When they returned it, I restored and had my old phone back identical to what it was in a couple of hours. Other than a couple of passwords and the endless series annoying taps when first initializing an iOS phone (this could be much better), there were no problems. YMMV, but this stuff mostly works for me.

steven2012 11y ago
I'm currently syncing on a very old MacBook and I want to move to my work MacBook. I can't Timemachine it.
- parasubvert 11y ago
  For what it's worth, you can direct-connect the Migration Assistant as well via FireWire USB or (I think?) Ethernet.... I remember doing this back to the PowerBook days.