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Much of this is dopey nonsense but he's correctly describing a few Real Problems. -- iOS devices blowing their asset layout and 'Othering' out is a Real Proble
by jpxxx 14y ago
Much of this is dopey nonsense but he's correctly describing a few Real Problems.
-- iOS devices blowing their asset layout and 'Othering' out is a Real Problem that used to happen far too often. The only fix beyond a backup+restore is to remove and re-add photos and music. If that doesn't work? Time to restore up to 60GB over USB2! Whee. Good luck explaining this to mom.
-- The built in Mac applications and frameworks are frightfully poor - it's unacceptable from a company that prides itself on quality. SyncServices is still a flaming travesty, Mail.app spontaneously corrupts messages and passwords, Spotlight can die in twenty different ways, iCal is a UI disaster, Address Book has completely broken sync options... the list goes on and on and on. Of all of these, I think Mail is the absolute worst. Three total rewrites and it's still neurotic on a good day.
-- iPhoto is goddamn slow. No matter what, no matter where, no matter when.
iOS is an order of magnitude more usable for two orders of magnitude more people with an order of magnitude fewer issues and two orders of magnitude fewer things to go wrong that makes an order of magnitude more money for them. So I think that's where he Lion's share (haha) of Apple's QA is spent. Sadly, I fear OS X will never receive that same level of care.
- pagejim 14y agoHi, I am not an iPhone user, but if what you have described above are problems that a significant number of iPhone users face, then I am pretty surprised/disappointed. All of these would be hampering user experience ( something Apple excels at ) irrespective of whether the user is a casual one or a heavy one. Also, if these problems are easily reproducible and quite prevalent, isn't Apple solving these in upcoming upgrades? In other words, they must be getting some kind of feedback/bug-reports and these problems should surely have to be part of that.
- jpxxx 14y agoGiven its financial performance, I can only imagine that iOS's quality is priority #0, #1, and #2 through 10 at Apple. From an anecdotal perspective, it has all gotten a great deal better over the years.
- entropy_ 14y agoThose are mostly problems with Mac OSX(except the storage issue on the iPhone).
- cube13 14y ago>I am not an iPhone user, but if what you have described above are problems that a significant number of iPhone users face, then I am pretty surprised/disappointed. As noted by other posts, most of the issues are with OSX applications rather than with iOS. To be honest, I think that the storage/backup issue is a legacy design issue with iOS. Unlike Android, iOS was never originally designed to be a standalone OS. Apple designed iOS to sync heavily with iTunes, which led to a lot of this "if you just restore from a backup, it'll magically be fixed" nonsense. Apple's started to move away from that, and more towards iOS being it's own thing with the OTA updates and by giving users a lot more control over storage usage through the device itself instead of iTunes, but they still haven't really broken away from it's necessity.
- pbreit 14y agoGt
- norswap 14y agoMore usable than what? If it's android, I beg to differ.
- bad_user 14y agoHe clearly was referring to OS X. Do we really need another flame on Android versus iOS?
- smoyer 14y agoNo we don't ... if you take a theoretically open Android system but buy it from Verizon, you'll find low-quality bloatware and unresolvable data issues just like those described in the article.
- bitwize 14y agoAnd that, kids, is why you want to look for a rootable, reflashable phone. Don't look at me like that. My sister's phone is rooted. Same for the guy at Radio Shack who sold me my last phone. Neither of them know shit about how to do it, but they got someone else to. Rooted and re-ROM'd smartphones are a pretty hot commodity these days.
- danudey 14y agoSo in order to get a good Android phone, I should find someone who 'knows a guy' who can do some magic to my phone to make it not suck?
- batista 14y ago>- The built in Mac applications and frameworks are frightfully poor - it's unacceptable from a company that prides itself on quality. SyncServices is still a flaming travesty, Mail.app spontaneously corrupts messages and passwords, Spotlight can die in twenty different ways, iCal is a UI disaster, Address Book has completely broken sync options... the list goes on and on and on. Of all of these, I think Mail is the absolute worst. Three total rewrites and it's still neurotic on a good day. Most of it is anecdotal YMMV kind of problems. I, for one, never had any problems with Mail.app, and I have 2 Gmail accounts synced to it, and a third party IMAP one -- around 40,000 messages in total. I also use iCal and AddressBook with no problems. Some UI issues that could be better? Sure. Then again, everything else has similar problems in any platform.
- jpxxx 14y agoshrug I do this for a living, and these glitches and problems are consistently putting food on my table.
- burntwater 14y agoMacs and malware. Two things that guarantee I will never go hungry (at least not this decade).
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