The M chips have been a truly impressive innovation. But on so many other levels Apple under Cook has just been resting on laurels - including putting out absurd industrial design faux pas’s like placing charging ports on the bottom of mice, or power buttons on the bottom of MacMinis, as well as deliberately making so many of their products close to impossible to repair. And on a software level Apple is a total mediocrity, I’ve never encountered a worst file manager for a current OS than when I use MacOS for work (professional audio production) & iOS for my kiddo’s iPad. Somehow those flaws haven’t prevented its massive financial success with their cult, but that seems to go with the times these days.
I have zero problems with power buttons on the bottom of minis. It’s a total non issue that’s another clickbaity thing for people to bitch about.
No Mac user I know ever shuts their machine down completely. It’s very quiet so they just go to sleep and wake instantly when the mouse or keyboard are used.
Totally agree. The m series chips were not only good, but the transition went perfectly. There were a hundred different ways this should have gone wrong. It went great. Credit where it’s due, Apple were the only to ones to pull that off. Microsoft is still spinning their wheels.
The Vision Pro? Flop. Expensive, never found a niche. Really cool device but it never solved a problem for anyone.
Apple Watch? Had potential but they kept changing focus and now it’s just a heartbeat monitor that gives notifications. App development on them stalled out. It stagnated.
Mouse? Mouse.
Keyboards? They killed butterfly finally but that’s just going back to what was already fine.
MacOS is just fucking ugly and hard to use. They broke their own visual design rules to make things clunky and weird.
iPad is useless. Simple app split screen is a pain to use now and why are they applying desktop elements to it? There’s a reason that wasn’t done in the first place.
iPhone is actually doing fine though the AI shit is obnoxious and by now they should have had an answer to Samsung dex.
Airport was idiot proof wifi they killed for no damn reason.
All of this to serve shareholders and not users, then talk down to those of use displeased by it with the Tonedeaf statement “we think you’ll love it.”
Introducing the iShit; it looks so good that you won’t even notice the smell.
But yeah realistically Cr’Apple has done nothing worth a shit in my opinion. I’ve had iPhones since 4 and all I can say is I keep hating it more and more every year. Like the hardware is good but the OS is … I want to punch someone in the face angry. At this point you need a manual on how to use your phone; one with a few hundred pages, troubleshooting guide. I’m slowly switching to using my Linux based phone because honestly it’s easier. It’s like apple decided we want to make things as complicated as andriod. I need a phone for phone calls, texts, watching videos, and browsing the web. Somehow they fucked that up. Half the shit I wonder who the fuck signed off on this change. I got the phone in my left hand and my pecker in my right and yet the close tab button now is on the right side of the tab, so stretch your thumb.
Just using the phone feels like it does whatever it wants and I’m a backseat driver.
Yea the last year has felt like the gave up on QA entirely. There’s no polish. No obsession with little details you can’t really market but absolutely notice in day to day use. Nothing is intuitive or clever or even pleasant to use anymore. It’s hostile. I like my iPhone air but it will be my last Apple product. I’m going full Linux.
If something is screwed up, I want it to be my fault for free rather than someone else’s for $1000. My mistakes get fixed. Theirs get dragged out in profitable ways.
I totally agree. Same here, I make sure to say this is the last iPhone I will buy to it since it’s always listening anyway. Some of the UI stuff, I sit and wonder why? The worst part is when I boot up an old iphone to look at old pictures and it… works great.
The M chips have been a truly impressive innovation. But on so many other levels Apple under Cook has just been resting on laurels - including putting out absurd industrial design faux pas’s like placing charging ports on the bottom of mice, or power buttons on the bottom of MacMinis, as well as deliberately making so many of their products close to impossible to repair. And on a software level Apple is a total mediocrity, I’ve never encountered a worst file manager for a current OS than when I use MacOS for work (professional audio production) & iOS for my kiddo’s iPad. Somehow those flaws haven’t prevented its massive financial success with their cult, but that seems to go with the times these days.
I have zero problems with power buttons on the bottom of minis. It’s a total non issue that’s another clickbaity thing for people to bitch about.
No Mac user I know ever shuts their machine down completely. It’s very quiet so they just go to sleep and wake instantly when the mouse or keyboard are used.
Totally agree. The m series chips were not only good, but the transition went perfectly. There were a hundred different ways this should have gone wrong. It went great. Credit where it’s due, Apple were the only to ones to pull that off. Microsoft is still spinning their wheels.
The Vision Pro? Flop. Expensive, never found a niche. Really cool device but it never solved a problem for anyone.
Apple Watch? Had potential but they kept changing focus and now it’s just a heartbeat monitor that gives notifications. App development on them stalled out. It stagnated.
Mouse? Mouse.
Keyboards? They killed butterfly finally but that’s just going back to what was already fine.
MacOS is just fucking ugly and hard to use. They broke their own visual design rules to make things clunky and weird.
iPad is useless. Simple app split screen is a pain to use now and why are they applying desktop elements to it? There’s a reason that wasn’t done in the first place.
iPhone is actually doing fine though the AI shit is obnoxious and by now they should have had an answer to Samsung dex.
Airport was idiot proof wifi they killed for no damn reason.
All of this to serve shareholders and not users, then talk down to those of use displeased by it with the Tonedeaf statement “we think you’ll love it.”
Introducing the iShit; it looks so good that you won’t even notice the smell.
But yeah realistically Cr’Apple has done nothing worth a shit in my opinion. I’ve had iPhones since 4 and all I can say is I keep hating it more and more every year. Like the hardware is good but the OS is … I want to punch someone in the face angry. At this point you need a manual on how to use your phone; one with a few hundred pages, troubleshooting guide. I’m slowly switching to using my Linux based phone because honestly it’s easier. It’s like apple decided we want to make things as complicated as andriod. I need a phone for phone calls, texts, watching videos, and browsing the web. Somehow they fucked that up. Half the shit I wonder who the fuck signed off on this change. I got the phone in my left hand and my pecker in my right and yet the close tab button now is on the right side of the tab, so stretch your thumb.
Just using the phone feels like it does whatever it wants and I’m a backseat driver.
Yea the last year has felt like the gave up on QA entirely. There’s no polish. No obsession with little details you can’t really market but absolutely notice in day to day use. Nothing is intuitive or clever or even pleasant to use anymore. It’s hostile. I like my iPhone air but it will be my last Apple product. I’m going full Linux.
If something is screwed up, I want it to be my fault for free rather than someone else’s for $1000. My mistakes get fixed. Theirs get dragged out in profitable ways.
I totally agree. Same here, I make sure to say this is the last iPhone I will buy to it since it’s always listening anyway. Some of the UI stuff, I sit and wonder why? The worst part is when I boot up an old iphone to look at old pictures and it… works great.