he said something like "don't look for flaws in our retina screens because you'll invariably find them, it's new technology and hard to get perfect"
I think at this point you should have asked if he would have said that to Steve Jobs.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 December 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
jeff the skinny bearded genius looked a lot like steve jobs actually
― the late great, Friday, 14 December 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Don't, like, 40% of produced laptop screens not even make it past QC? I'm under the impression that it's exceedingly difficult to manufacture LCD (or whatever they are) screens and dead pixels are just a part of the technology
― jawn valjawn (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 15 December 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
dislike the new iTunes album display with the fancy color-matching. it only shows a faded (and i think cropped?) version of the album art. we have these giant beautiful displays now, it doesn't make any sense. black and white album art looks especially bad.
― hot slag (lukas), Sunday, 23 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
I switched to Mac a month ago and I love and prefer most things about Mac, but the things that piss me off are:
- No fucking Delete key! Or rather, the Delete key is the Backspace key, and there is no key for deleting forward.
- Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY? Which operation is more common, opening, or renaming? Therefore, why not make opening a 1-key operation?
- Keyboard shortcuts in Office programs are not the same. Word is weird and scary. Excel is scary and weird.
- Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY? Why not cycle through the open windows? Instead I have to use my mouse or trackpad (I use Hot Corners) to open Mission Control, which is a bunch of extra movement, which seems very un-Appley.
- The whole installation process with the disk images blah blah blah. This turned out to be easy to get used to, but new Macs should come with a big warning label about the installation process. Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)
- It won't recognize all the keys on my USB keyboard.
There are like a million blogs about this stuff, and now there is one more entry.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY?
Reason is supposed to make you use the mouse, now that you've finally left DOS you may not be used to the new interface device.
Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY?
Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)
― stet, Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Who uses the mouse to open things? Use command-O.
― mh, Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, stet. The Command-~ will be very useful. I googled the problem and didn't find an answer before I got fed up, so I am grateful for your advice.
I know about fn-backspace, but I think that deleting is common enough a task that it deserves its very own key.
Were you sassing me w/r/t using the mouse? One of the great things about Macs is the efficiency of OS, so why would I want to use a mouse? I know about Command-O, but again, it's an extra key-press for an activity that is extremely common.
Anyway, like I said, on the whole, I love Mac and I finally realize what Mac people were on about. I tried using Windows 8 on a friend's computer the other day, and found that they had made the simple act of deleting a file fraught with potential malfunctions, and I started saying Mac Guy stuff.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Ah no wasn't sassing you, but Apple. The original Mac keyboard didn't have arrow keys because they were terrified people wouldn't use the mouse and would just carry on with keyboard interfaces.
There are a fair few hangovers from decisions made in those days still in OS X
― stet, Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Ha. That's funny b/c now (over)reliance on mice is for backwards people.
(I thought it was out of character for you to sass me!)
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
After years of using macs, I still hate the enter/rename thing. Then I just gave up on basically all file management on a mac and just let things organize themselves however they want.
― Jeff, Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
That's why I like Quicksilver.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
The hierarchical file system is a legacy concept anyway. It's a terrible interface for almost everybody.
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Command down arrow is the best way to open things.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 23 December 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― caek, Sunday, 23 December 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
My iPhone is one of those that has had its battery life screwed by the iOS 6.1 update. Can't get close to a day's use out of it all of a sudden.
― Alba, Friday, 8 February 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
After hearing about iTunes, I'm not updating anything until I get the all-clear.
― pplains, Friday, 8 February 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Weird; my phone is opposite. Finally get decent life. (4s).
― stet, Saturday, 9 February 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
Down to 70% in two hours today. Running hot.
― Alba, Saturday, 9 February 2013 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
you might need to power cycle/full recharge a couple times
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
People always complain about battery life after iOS updates.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
I know, but this time it's reeeaal. For me. Unless it's just a coincidence.
Anyway, don't know if it's related to this:
Vodafone Warns Against Upgrading to iOS 6.1
Apple have just put out a 6.0.1, so fingers crossed my problem will go away.
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
6.1.1, rather.
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
(for 4S only)
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
i had my first apple maps snafu yesterday. I didn't upgrade to ios 6 until google maps came out so I haven't used apple maps at all unless something else opens it up. I clicked on a highlighted address in mail for 178 India St., which is in Greenpoint Brooklyn, about a mile from where I was, to get directions, and it showed me 178 Indwa Street, which is in Johannesburg South Africa.
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 February 2013 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
how close to south africa did you get before you realized
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
likely around 8469.289 miles, give or take a few (from johannesburg)
― administrator galina (Matt P), Friday, 15 February 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
as the drone (crow) flies
― administrator galina (Matt P), Friday, 15 February 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
I was in the middle of the atlantic before I realized there wasn't a great ocean separating East Williamsburg from Greenpoint. Just a McDonalds and the BQE.
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 February 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
^^ first lines of your novel
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 15 February 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
i asked siri for directions to heathmont railway station. after the third try it said it couldn't find 'sheath launch railway station'. i typed 'heathmont railway station' into maps and it took me to a railway station that was not heathmont railway station.
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 February 2013 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
at this point i am very genuinely unsure how apple manages to scratch its arse without falling over
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 February 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
there's an app for that.
― s.clover, Sunday, 17 February 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
What are the chances they'll relent and make "Open in Google Maps" and option when clicking on a address?
― Je55e, Monday, 18 February 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Never
― Jeff, Monday, 18 February 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe it's because Apple is a Bay area company, but Apple Maps is actually pretty cool for local stuff here.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 18 February 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's not bad in san diego, still not as good as google maps
― the late great, Monday, 18 February 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's great in South Africa…BUT I'M IN BROOKLYN.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
i finally upgraded to io6 on my iphone 4 and i don't know if it's smoke and mirrors but safari feels like it's been optimized up the wazoo
i also realllly like the weird little pull-down animation for reloading that you see in mail
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah seems like safari is waaaay faster than chrome
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Safari is definitely way faster than Chrome; Chrome (and other third-party apps providing browser views) doesn't have access to the optimized javascript engine that Safari uses.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
so any third-party browsers on iPhone will be less fast by design.
there is a jailbreak hack to make all browsers on iOS use the same Js engine. makes chrome awesome.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Thursday, 28 March 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
Still hesitating whether to upgrade my old iPhone 4 to iOS 6. Still worried it will turn into a piece of slow ass junk overnight
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 28 March 2013 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
iOS 6 is great IMO. The only bad aspect is no integrated google maps but otherwise I do not regret upgrading
― polyphonic, Thursday, 28 March 2013 07:36 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's boring like a cardigan but does the job
― Esteban Buttiérrez (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 28 March 2013 07:39 (eleven years ago) link
like a cardigan
fairly certain this is not true
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 March 2013 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it is -- only Safari gets the JIT compiler.
― stet, Thursday, 28 March 2013 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
ah n/m, ignore me
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link