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> Apple used to be better than this Unfortunately I find this to be true for their software in general these days, even outside of the AI junk. I'll continue
by deergomoo 2y ago
> Apple used to be better than this
Unfortunately I find this to be true for their software in general these days, even outside of the AI junk.
I'll continue to roll my eyes at the "Jobs would have never allowed this" trope because it's often trite, but the fact is Tim Cook is not and has never been a product guy and the polish seems to have long since worn off. Software-wise at least anyway; I'd argue the hardware has never been better.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoIf it's the software, you should call out Federighi.
- deergomoo 2y agoI have thought about this actually. Federighi seems to have a positive sentiment for having a sense of humour about himself and managing to deliver presentations sounding the least like C-3PO in human clothes out of all the execs. But I guess the buck does stop with him on this.
- rchaud 2y agoWe are still living in a world where most people think Apple is still a Jobs-era company. Changes in public perception happen after years of inertia. Anybody who's opened the App Store or Apple News at any point in the past several years can see the design and ads are just as spammy and ugly as Google and Facebook. anybody without their head innthe sand can see the Apple Intelligence rollout has been as bad as Apple Maps in 2011, and that dark patterns used to opt people in suggest Apple is waving the same AI magic wand at their share price as every other tech company.
- lemonberry 2y agoApple News is terrible. The fact that I can't remove the News.app from my computer MacBook Pro is crazy. It's considered an essential part of the OS. What?
- dpkirchner 2y agoI doubt Jobs would have gone for the off-centered camera bump-out. Even the physical design has fallen by the wayside.
- rchaud 2y agoOnly the Butterfly keyboard stands out to me as something that would have sent Jobs apoplectic. Apple stuff still mostly looks fine IMO, it's them turning themselves into a 'software and services' company that's completely ruined their aesthetic. Their ads are no better than Taboola/Outbrain garbage and are unblockable because they're loaded at the OS-level.
- mdhb 2y agoIsn’t every single one of their M series chips currently vulnerable and non fixable to speculative execution attacks? Thats multiple generations of products now that are fast but fundamentally broken.