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Yes but it’s much broader. Just in general the lack of Steve Jobs noticing these glaring issues and coming down hard to solve them is pretty clear. I remember
by AnotherGoodName 1y ago
Yes but it’s much broader. Just in general the lack of Steve Jobs noticing these glaring issues and coming down hard to solve them is pretty clear.
I remember when macbooks briefly came out with a ridiculously bright standby led that required
Black electrical tape over if you wanted to sleep with it in the house. Shortly after no more status leds on any MacBook (thank you!).
Nowadays i find non stop little annoyances with threads from others on the same issues on Apple devices. From.the.overly.prominent.full.stop when searching textually in the url bar to the crappy spell check and crappy spam filtering. As much as Jobs apparently came across as an asshole there’s a need for someone at the top to say ‘WTF is this, fix it or get fired!’.
- IshKebab 1y agoI've also found a lot of this stuff is due to naysayers telling people that things can't be fixed (because really they don't want to bother). You need a strong leader to say "no it can and we will".
- ww520 1y agoOr the incentive aligned.
- SkyPuncher 1y agoThis is really what it is.
- abullinan 1y agoIt takes a village. Also to be successful in tech it takes an asshole. No way around it. At some point all successful companies share an overly aggressive visionary. The entire company doesn’t need to be toxic, but the apex does. If you don’t like it, don’t climb the ladder.
- ttoinou 1y agoSurely there must be some counter examples. Collison brothers at Stripe ?
- stripe_away 1y agoI guess you never worked at Stripe.
- IshKebab 1y agoI don't think it requires being an arsehole. Just being firm. That doesn't require arseholery.
- elzbardico 1y agoPeople will call someone who doesn't bend to the status quo an asshole.
- eru 1y agoNo. Not necessarily. There's plenty of people described as 'quiet and polite, but firm' or some similar variations.
- qmr 1y agoWhat founders / CEOs can you name described by those qualities?
- eru 1y agoI'm not sure you need to restrict yourself to these. You can also look at eg political leaders. Lee Kuan Yew is one example that comes to mind immediately. Warren Buffett might be a good example from the world of business. (Your favourite search engine or chatbot is probably more than happy to give you a steady stream of other examples.)
- leoc 1y agoI don't know, maybe he wouldn't raise his voice, but I can't imagine it would be fun to be a subordinate of LKY at the moment he decided you were wasting his time.
- eru 1y agoThe original comment was: > People will call someone who doesn't bend to the status quo an asshole. That's very different from not suffering time wasters.
- sixo 1y agoSkill issue. There are other ways to get those results, but being an asshole is the lowest-hanging, and is nearly free if the people around you don't have the self-respect to walk away.
- abullinan 1y agoI disagree. Point to a centibillion+ company that isn’t fronted by a toxic asshole.
- paradox460 1y agoNot just that, but the strong leader needs to ensure that it can be fixed. Yelling at a rank-and-file to unfuck some random system, then not giving them any time, resources, or tools to fix it is just being a dictatorial dickhead.
- mrweasel 1y agoIt's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is, but yes, there seems to be an increasing number of small issue with Apple devices. They aren't major stuff simply not work, but yes, spam filter being pretty terrible, text overlapping on non flagship phones (e.g. the iPhone SE). All sorts of minor annoyances.
- AnotherGoodName 1y agoYep I've worked at other big tech where they had periodic "executive bug filing" where executives would flag minor things that are annoying. These minor issues would then have higher than normal priority purely by virtue of being flagged by an exec. I have a likely controversial opinion that this executive bug filing actually led to better outcomes. It did break prioritization in the opinion of the ground level teams and their goals but I argue it's not bad to at least periodically do this since grating against the current org structure prioritization and goals is not a bad thing to do on occasion. Chances are they'll find there's no team that considers themselves the owners of spell check or spam filtering and the goals the keyboard team are going for is likely some silly thing like "number of sentences with correct punctuation" leading to the current ridiculous outcomes where the period in the URL is way too prominent, especially considering we don't even type full URLS into the search bar that often these days. Dear Apple leads: if you're reading this do a short initiative where execs aim to file an annoyance a day. It's not hard to find such. There will be some complaints at the ground level that these executive annoyances get too much priority but part of that will be because you're questioning lower level org priorities (a healthy thing to do!), not because the issues don't matter. The end result will bring Apple a bit more in line with the quality we saw during the Jobs period since this is exactly the kind of shake up he did on occasion.
- gitpusher 1y agoI worked at Apple and heard a lot of Steve stories. He really did personally approve everything. He would be sitting in a room, and team leads would all line up to give their quick 2-minute update. So it's the MacBook Air guy's turn. He comes in and places his prototype down in front of Steve. Steve opens the lid. Two seconds later he picks up the laptop and heaves it so hard it skipped across the table like a stone on water: "I said fxxking INSTANT ON!!" The poor guy collected his prototype and exited the room. Later the MacBook Air launched... it fxxking turned on the moment you open the lid
- mathiaspoint 1y agoGood product development really does seem to require some sort of leader who demands quality and smacks people when they don't deliver. Linux is nice because of Torvalds for example.
- valiant55 1y agoI was just thinking about Linux/Linus the other day. How will Linux fair when Linus is no longer with us?
- jdsnape 1y agoFare, not fair (I’m sorry, it doesn’t matter but I couldn’t help it in a discussion on quality)
- foundart 1y agoIn comments on an article about spellchecking no less
- eru 1y agoIn this case, both fair and fare are words in English. Which shows that spell checking needs to know a lot about grammar and context to work in general. Basically you need an LLM. Or if not a 'large language model', perhaps at least a small language model.
- zimpenfish 1y ago> From.the.overly.prominent.full.stop when searching textually in the url bar One of the most aggravating things in iOS. Trips me up almost every day (and it's been there for what? 10 years now?)
- AnotherGoodName 1y agoWait until you realize that the icon of the period and spacebar don't at all line up to the touch area due to touch gravitation. You can tap slightly more on the spacebar side and still end up with a period. https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1ekszul/comment/lgnfu2t/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1ekszul/comment/lgn... So if you suffer from this it's not even your fault. You're literally hitting the spacebar but some incentive at Apple in their org structure has led to the period literally having waaaay too much weighting and the lack of exec oversight at Apple in the post Jobs days is leading to us all.typing.periods.whenever.we.just.wanted.to.search.
- doubled112 1y agoAll this time (literal years) I thought I.was.losing it.
- kelipso 1y agoLol, the amount of time I spent backspacing to retype without the period. Probably my main annoyance in ios.
- elzbardico 1y agoThis.is.incredibly.annoying. But.you.took.a.weight.from.my.shoulders. I always.thought. I was an incompetent who couldn't hit the spacebar correctly.
- chamomeal 1y agoHoly shit my phone has been gaslighting me this whole time???
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- elzbardico 1y agoThat light was really helpful to do the occasional late night visit to the bathroom in a home where I lived where there were no light controls at the bedside.
- tomsmeding 1y agohttps://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- socalgal2 1y agoCurrrent MBPs have bright green/orange charging lights on both sides of the magsafe connector. They're bright enough I have to block them when I'm in a hotel and my laptop is in the same room.
- mschuster91 1y ago> I remember when macbooks briefly came out with a ridiculously bright standby led that required Black electrical tape over if you wanted to sleep with it in the house. Shortly after no more status leds on any MacBook (thank you!). The lack of status LEDs is actually the only thing I really REALLY hate about MacBooks! Too often I have been bitten by the thing not properly going to sleep because SOMETHING keeps a wake lock (and of course macOS doesn't indicate this anywhere outside of Energy Monitor, nested in System Activity) and overheating in my bag as a result. A simple LED would have been a good visual indicator that it is still awake.
- MortyWaves 1y agoThere has to be something going on with iOS Safari and the keyboard because my typing goes to complete shit in ways it never does in any other application. Here are some random examples I thought of for this comment. Notice how everything is spelled wrong as though the screen input doesn’t match the location of the buttons. - tomoroww eather in united.kingdom - lookip exhange rate - devopper news - download twotter.video
- longtimelistnr 1y agoI notice this as well, i think it is because the autocorrect is turned off and we may just be so used to it learning our typing habits that our "raw" typing is really that bad