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Anyone who expects Apple will ship any high quality software these days has had their head in the sand for quite a while.

edgyquant 7y ago
I seen this posted all the time on various platforms but as someone who has an iPhone and an Android tablet my iPhone is consistently better and has less head aches than any of my prior phones. Can you explain what you mean by this?
- oarsinsync 7y ago
  My Nokia 3310 had significantly fewer headaches than my iPhone 11. My iPhone 3GS had significantly fewer headaches than my iPhone 11. Apple is particularly weak when it comes to cloud and services. Apple is pushing iCloud and other services really hard. There is absolutely no ability to troubleshoot anything in these platforms. Every time I have a fault with my Apple Watch or my iPhone or iPad, I'm told I need to do a factory reset and not restore from backup to validate if it's something in my working environment that's caused it. If it is, well then, goodbye years of history, because there's no selective restore. I tried to upgrade my Mac from "10.14.6 (Mojave)" to what the system preferences software update screen describes as "macOS Catalina (null) - 8.18GB", and when I hit the Upgrade Now button, I get a popup that says "This Mac is configured in a way that is incompatible with macOS Catalina." I have a single disk inside my 2015 MacBook Pro, single partition, FileVault2 enabled, and I after contacting Apple Support and going through a screen share, their solution is that I need to... backup my data with time machine and reboot into recovery mode to do an Internet Recovery reinstall. Apparently it may be because I have the weird non-standard configuration of having full disk encryption enabled, but the support person couldn't actually point me to anything that could indicate that on my machine, as even they have no ability to troubleshoot anything. Seriously. Fuck Apple. Note: I am thoroughly into the Apple ecosystem, and loving it about as much as I loved being in Microsoft ecosystem in the 2000s. Like Microsoft offerings were at the time, Apple's are better than the alternatives. They're still terrible.

edgyquant 7y ago

I seen this posted all the time on various platforms but as someone who has an iPhone and an Android tablet my iPhone is consistently better and has less head aches than any of my prior phones. Can you explain what you mean by this?

oarsinsync 7y ago
My Nokia 3310 had significantly fewer headaches than my iPhone 11. My iPhone 3GS had significantly fewer headaches than my iPhone 11. Apple is particularly weak when it comes to cloud and services. Apple is pushing iCloud and other services really hard. There is absolutely no ability to troubleshoot anything in these platforms. Every time I have a fault with my Apple Watch or my iPhone or iPad, I'm told I need to do a factory reset and not restore from backup to validate if it's something in my working environment that's caused it. If it is, well then, goodbye years of history, because there's no selective restore. I tried to upgrade my Mac from "10.14.6 (Mojave)" to what the system preferences software update screen describes as "macOS Catalina (null) - 8.18GB", and when I hit the Upgrade Now button, I get a popup that says "This Mac is configured in a way that is incompatible with macOS Catalina." I have a single disk inside my 2015 MacBook Pro, single partition, FileVault2 enabled, and I after contacting Apple Support and going through a screen share, their solution is that I need to... backup my data with time machine and reboot into recovery mode to do an Internet Recovery reinstall. Apparently it may be because I have the weird non-standard configuration of having full disk encryption enabled, but the support person couldn't actually point me to anything that could indicate that on my machine, as even they have no ability to troubleshoot anything. Seriously. Fuck Apple. Note: I am thoroughly into the Apple ecosystem, and loving it about as much as I loved being in Microsoft ecosystem in the 2000s. Like Microsoft offerings were at the time, Apple's are better than the alternatives. They're still terrible.