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Just my opinion here, but I feel like Apple again doesn't really care about power users. 98% of their users won't be making any customizations like this, so the

Just my opinion here, but I feel like Apple again doesn't really care about power users. 98% of their users won't be making any customizations like this, so they don't care to spend money working on those "edge cases." Their primary mission is to sell devices and apps to average people who aren't tech geeks. And I don't think Apple cares about general purpose computing. I see MacOS getting closer to iOS with every update, and I'm betting that at some point we'll lose filesystem access and sudo access.

samstave 6y ago
Have you ever been FORCED to upgrade/update against your will for a new release whereby you say NO NO NO - then you make the mistake of falling asleep with your phone plugged into the charger to wake to a forced update to your device? Yeah - fuck apple - and fuck Jonny Ive - they claim to be the masers of all aspects of designs, but really they're they masters of /r/assholedesign Their hardware is in the top 70th % - but their UX is IMO <25% (just look at how many clicks you need to do certain tasks, such as bluetooth. They have a slide-up menu to toggle BT and WIFI - but you have to go to desktop->settings->bluetooth->(toggle it on off/refresh)->find the device-> "cant connect" - Toggle BT on both phone and device -> attempt to connect... But you cant up-swipe hit BT and have it show you the FN menu on screen. You cant backup and manage all your prefs via icloud - such that you can apply profiles, save profiles, etc from your device to your linked cloud account and say "I always want my privacy to be thus, these are the networks I trust. Their photos library mgmt is absolute garbage. You have no photo details available to you. Their albums are garbage. There are so many interactions that require like 5x more clicks than they should. Their screens suck. Their device accessory ecosystem sucks and punishes you for profit with impunity. They exploit chinese slave labor. They try to charge you for flaws in the HW provided (recall the balloon battery problem? I had a macbook pro CATCH FIRE while I was asleep in bed. They said they "recognize that was a safety problem, but because our engineers (after two months of having the machine) determined that at one time the liquid sensor was set off, we cannot replace your machine EVEN THOUGH IT WAS UNDER RECALL FOR THE CLASS OF PROS THAT WERE RECALLED FOR CATCHING FIRE. FUCK APPLE.
- orf 6y ago
  That’s a lot of anger and words over something that, in the grand scheme of things, is so utterly unimportant and almost contemptuously irrelevant. Things are always a trade-off. There are big positives to keeping the ecosystem on a consistent, new and secure version of iOS. Similar positives apply to MacOS.
  - samstave 6y ago
    The problem I have with your argument, is you assume that my frustration is just over a single device from Apple. I have literally had every single apple product since the Apple ][e -- aside from their server systems. I have had every iPhone (even had pre-launch phones from them) since launch up until I stopped at the 6s+ which is the only phone I will ever own from them. I have a history with apple that is not shallow and I have had ~35 years of judgement against them. I recall getting into a talk with a fellow engineer at Lockheed where I said "Trust me, Apple will switch to intel procs - and this apple boi almost had a heart attack saying that would NEVER happen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_proce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_proce ssors Yeah that happened ~2 years before it actually occured... (I used to work for intel and have stories about trend prediction there as well...) So yeah, I'm solid in my position of what I know to have happened...
  - wizzwizz4 6y ago
    Maybe the first point or four. The subsequent ones? They actually seem pretty serious.
  - sodality2 6y ago
    His macbook catching on fire is pretty darn important

samstave 6y ago

Have you ever been FORCED to upgrade/update against your will for a new release whereby you say NO NO NO - then you make the mistake of falling asleep with your phone plugged into the charger to wake to a forced update to your device? Yeah - fuck apple - and fuck Jonny Ive - they claim to be the masers of all aspects of designs, but really they're they masters of /r/assholedesign Their hardware is in the top 70th % - but their UX is IMO <25% (just look at how many clicks you need to do certain tasks, such as bluetooth. They have a slide-up menu to toggle BT and WIFI - but you have to go to desktop->settings->bluetooth->(toggle it on off/refresh)->find the device-> "cant connect" - Toggle BT on both phone and device -> attempt to connect... But you cant up-swipe hit BT and have it show you the FN menu on screen. You cant backup and manage all your prefs via icloud - such that you can apply profiles, save profiles, etc from your device to your linked cloud account and say "I always want my privacy to be thus, these are the networks I trust. Their photos library mgmt is absolute garbage. You have no photo details available to you. Their albums are garbage. There are so many interactions that require like 5x more clicks than they should. Their screens suck. Their device accessory ecosystem sucks and punishes you for profit with impunity. They exploit chinese slave labor. They try to charge you for flaws in the HW provided (recall the balloon battery problem? I had a macbook pro CATCH FIRE while I was asleep in bed. They said they "recognize that was a safety problem, but because our engineers (after two months of having the machine) determined that at one time the liquid sensor was set off, we cannot replace your machine EVEN THOUGH IT WAS UNDER RECALL FOR THE CLASS OF PROS THAT WERE RECALLED FOR CATCHING FIRE. FUCK APPLE.

orf 6y ago
That’s a lot of anger and words over something that, in the grand scheme of things, is so utterly unimportant and almost contemptuously irrelevant. Things are always a trade-off. There are big positives to keeping the ecosystem on a consistent, new and secure version of iOS. Similar positives apply to MacOS.
- samstave 6y ago
  The problem I have with your argument, is you assume that my frustration is just over a single device from Apple. I have literally had every single apple product since the Apple ][e -- aside from their server systems. I have had every iPhone (even had pre-launch phones from them) since launch up until I stopped at the 6s+ which is the only phone I will ever own from them. I have a history with apple that is not shallow and I have had ~35 years of judgement against them. I recall getting into a talk with a fellow engineer at Lockheed where I said "Trust me, Apple will switch to intel procs - and this apple boi almost had a heart attack saying that would NEVER happen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_proce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_proce ssors Yeah that happened ~2 years before it actually occured... (I used to work for intel and have stories about trend prediction there as well...) So yeah, I'm solid in my position of what I know to have happened...
- wizzwizz4 6y ago
  Maybe the first point or four. The subsequent ones? They actually seem pretty serious.
- sodality2 6y ago
  His macbook catching on fire is pretty darn important