…with ads in maps and paying their big tech bribe money…
No kidding. I’ve been an Apple customer since '05 and they’ve lost me. It’s not this one thing but rather, the overall, gradual decline in quality along the way. I help a lot of people with their tech devices and here are a few things that have gone disasterously bad for me just this year: getting a large photo library OUT of iCloud and onto a single Mac; restoring a borked iOS device from an on-line backup; TimeMachine drive that won’t use, spotlight won’t stop indexing and was impossible to run first aid with out a wipe/reformat; failed iOS upgrades; iPhone that won’t notify the user about incoming messages, sometimes calls, etc.; iOS minor updates that will only download the FULL installer (~8GB worth, every. single. time.). There have been many others. I’ve heard other comment on this UI update making it harder to read in various situations.
Apple stuff used to be pretty bomb-proof and really hit the mark because it really did “just work”. I’m seriously thinking about just bailing out entirely from their ecosystem to Linux, since I know I won’t have the OS actively getting in my way when I need to fix it (I’m a 30 year Unix/Linux sysadmin). I was never a true believer but used their stuff because it allowed me to avoid more system work off the clock. I can’t help but wonder how Mr. Jobs would have seen the current state of things today.
Sheesh those are unacceptable issues for iOS devices at this point. Honestly if they even stopped for just one singular update to fix things or add what’s users want I’d be happy, but I guess you can just do it yourself on android so that’s part of the appeal. Linux is also great, maybe snapdragon x elite 2 will convince me to ditch my MacBook but hardware is too good. My desktop runs it and I generally have few problems but I’d really miss Logic Pro if I switched to Linux, tbh that’s my biggest hang up. Also I don’t think Linux has quite the security level as macOS does at least by default so I’d have to do some research into that. But yeah I tried graphene on a pixel 9 for a week and man I forgot what it was like to actually make the phone how you want, and actually like have swipe to type that works for once. I’m considering grabbing a pixel 10 pro while they’re on sale and waiting for graphene support, the MagSafe equivalence is a big feature for me personally.
No kidding. I’ve been an Apple customer since '05 and they’ve lost me. It’s not this one thing but rather, the overall, gradual decline in quality along the way. I help a lot of people with their tech devices and here are a few things that have gone disasterously bad for me just this year: getting a large photo library OUT of iCloud and onto a single Mac; restoring a borked iOS device from an on-line backup; TimeMachine drive that won’t use, spotlight won’t stop indexing and was impossible to run first aid with out a wipe/reformat; failed iOS upgrades; iPhone that won’t notify the user about incoming messages, sometimes calls, etc.; iOS minor updates that will only download the FULL installer (~8GB worth, every. single. time.). There have been many others. I’ve heard other comment on this UI update making it harder to read in various situations.
Apple stuff used to be pretty bomb-proof and really hit the mark because it really did “just work”. I’m seriously thinking about just bailing out entirely from their ecosystem to Linux, since I know I won’t have the OS actively getting in my way when I need to fix it (I’m a 30 year Unix/Linux sysadmin). I was never a true believer but used their stuff because it allowed me to avoid more system work off the clock. I can’t help but wonder how Mr. Jobs would have seen the current state of things today.
Graphene seems quite enticing now.
Sheesh those are unacceptable issues for iOS devices at this point. Honestly if they even stopped for just one singular update to fix things or add what’s users want I’d be happy, but I guess you can just do it yourself on android so that’s part of the appeal. Linux is also great, maybe snapdragon x elite 2 will convince me to ditch my MacBook but hardware is too good. My desktop runs it and I generally have few problems but I’d really miss Logic Pro if I switched to Linux, tbh that’s my biggest hang up. Also I don’t think Linux has quite the security level as macOS does at least by default so I’d have to do some research into that. But yeah I tried graphene on a pixel 9 for a week and man I forgot what it was like to actually make the phone how you want, and actually like have swipe to type that works for once. I’m considering grabbing a pixel 10 pro while they’re on sale and waiting for graphene support, the MagSafe equivalence is a big feature for me personally.