I HATE APPLE

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/07/30/nitrous/

btw I'm a moron and thought that some jailbreak thingy was screwing up my battery life and I updated to an unjailbreakable version ;_;

oh wait, it looks like they have it figured out

had my first apple maps snafu last weekend

staying at a friend's house in a remote area, was sent on an errand to the closest shopping destination, walmart, ugh. surprisingly walmart did not have everything we needed, so I searched apple maps for the nearest kmart. it directed us 10 minutes away on the highway and when we pulled up in front of a weed-ridden lot filled w/ fresh dumpsters, it proudly announced 'you have arrived at kmart'. consulted google maps, which took us right back to where we came from, and lo and behold THE KMART WAS PHYSICALLY CONNECTED TO THE WALMART like you didn't even have to go outside, there was a side exit inside the walmart, you walked down a mall hallway and right into kmart. didn't notice it the first time due to angle of buildings and lack of signage but good gravy apple wtf

Yeah. My work buddy and I ended up in a cul-de-sac in a trailer park (hand to God) when we were trying to get to a Vietnamese restaurant on a major boulevard in Fremont (CA, half-an-hour from Apple HQ) the other day.

I tried the turn-by-turn the other day from the middle of London, and when I started it, it decided I shouldn't start from where I was but instead some other place half a mile away. Getting to the starting point was left as an exercise for the driver. Fucking Apple.

if you hit the little arrow at bottom left on the screen it should reorient to yr current position?

Yeah, it knew where I was (it had me on the right road, which was public), but the only instruction it would give was "proceed to start" indicating a point some way away. I cancelled out and tried again, no dice. Bizarre

install google maps

the concept of a Wal-Mart and KMart being connected to each other is really bizarre

separated by a wal

"Mr. Walton, tear down this wal!"

My conspiracy theory is that Apple put out a half-ass Maps app so that they could stop paying Google for their data. Now that there is a good Google maps app on the iPhone, Apple gets it for free. They only have to keep a barely-credible alternative going, and they don't have to pay for map data (or roll trucks everywhere), or all of the network bandwidth that a mapping application requires. After all, APPLE SELLS HARDWARE. Everything else is done in service of that goal. You think they want to do cloud services? Or office software?

I thought it was weird enough when there was a Target inside the mall.

I have seen Target anchors and yeah it is indeed kinda weird. Best Buy too.

the concept of a Wal-Mart and KMart being connected to each other is really bizarre

― frogbs, Thursday, April 4, 2013 5:44 PM (2 hours ago)

this was the weirdest part of the experience for me as well

Do the mall BestBuys still have those bald-headed security guys with the headsets, this time protecting the egress out to the Pretzel King?

They only have to keep a barely-credible alternative going

I installed Google Maps as soon as it was released and have barely ever opened it, it turns out -- I just use the native one.

All I use. Haven't opened apple maps since.

If it was native I'd be all over it, though I still use it regularly. Apple maps was responsible for me being 15 minutes late to a job interview.

Google maps is great. Has replaced my garmin in the car.

The mall that is totally dead here now had a Target anchor store in their grand remodel of 1992. All part of living a state south of their hq, I guess.

unchill thread title

We hate because we care

Apple maps was responsible for me being 15 minutes late to a job interview.

This is crazy. YOU were responsible for being 15 minutes late for a job interview.

FWIW Apple maps seems OK in London though I use the A-Z app most of the time which is light years better that either it or Google maps. Lotta rose-tinted thinking about Google maps. Visually it's always been terrible, with very little distinction between main roads, side roads, etc. (I never use turn-by-turn directions, though - maybe in this it's superior. But the most efficient directions are those somebody gives you imo)

IDK what UK maps are supposed to look like, but Google Maps reads great IMO - interstates, highways, arterial streets, and side streets are easy to distinguish at a glance.

And Apple Maps' search is fuuuucked (I've had problems like it not understanding "Hotel Whatever" b/c the correct name was "Whatever Hotel" and giving me 0 results (even suggestions) b/c I searched for "3000 N. Ashland" instead of "3000 N. Ashland STREET."

Or when I was looking for a sporting goods store near me. It claimed there were NONE, but Google Maps found several w/in a couple miles.

Not to mention Apple's misguided application of their devotion clean, serene minimalism in eliminating names of landmark buildings and businesses. A spare, "uncluttered" presentation is inferior to one than that shows me a couple labels so I know I'm near the courthouse and Macy's.

what I hate about both apple and google's maps is that if you try to scroll the map the navigation quits and you've got to restart it

I don't like that with both, when I try to pinch or unpinch in a certain way, it switches to compass mode.

Do the one finger pinch trick. Double tap and hold, move finger up and down to zoom in and out.

anybody have complaints about cinema displays?

This is crazy. YOU were responsible for being 15 minutes late for a job interview.

... was he supposed to magically intuit that the directions were leading him to the wrong place or something and therefore leave 24 hours leeway to get to the place?

well that's exactly why i scout places out before i go to the actual interview!

not that i'm saying it's anyone's fault but i don't trust any maps app, really

(I do that too tbh, I'm just wary of projecting my personal neuroses onto other people's behavior)

I leave an hour early for any job interview and spend the time before it hyperventilating in my car

anybody have complaints about cinema displays?

― the late great, Monday, April 8, 2013 1:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the complaint would be that they are overpriced. Monoprice is entering the high-end display market, these are probably worth a look:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=113&cp_id=11307&cs_id=1130703

I have heard quite good things about those monoprice displays

I have a refurb cinema display, they cost a lot.

I leave an hour early for any job interview and spend the time before it hyperventilating in my car

^^^^^ u&k

Yah I left 30 mins earlier than normal just in case and was flown into a new big city that I had no knowledge of. Maps lead me like 12 miles away fro the destination where there was loads of road construction traffic and what not. I got in the night before the int at midnight and the int was at 830 am the next day so I didn't have time to scope out the scene. I relied on maps to, you know, at least get me in the vicinity. I feel completely comfortable blaming apple maps in this case.

Got the offer anyways, mind.

I've been waiting to hear about the monoprice monitors. I'm a bit of an IPS purist. As a graphic designer and whatnot I've always gone for IPS monitors. When I finally replaced my old trinitron good IPS monitors were all 600$ plus, but there was a new technology called eIPS that was considerably cheaper and I bought a Dell 2209wa for like 200 bucks and it's still my main monitor. A few years later I needed another monitor to connect to my macbook and researched the hell out of the cheaper IPS monitors and got an LG for less than 300 dollars, that still looked better than much more expensive non-IPS screens.

That 27" monoprice for 390$ is going to be hard to keep in stock, and is definitely what I'd use to replace either of these two.

At home, with that dell (which is 22" widescreen more or less), I have a second monitor, a 70 dollar Dell 19" that looks terrible, but I use it for iTunes, email, libraries I'm copying from etc. I've been pretty obsessive about using two monitors and love the separation, it feels like two computers when you use them for different purposes. However, at work now I'm using an old 27" Apple Cinema Display and it feels absolutely huge. Plenty of real estate. A second monitor would be nice to keep things separate, but I don't feel like I need it.

should I jailbreak? What exactly are the advantages? I mean it wd be very nice to have weather on my home screen but the things already bogged down enough and I don't want to make it even slower.

I jailbreak and think its worthwhile. Jailbreaking itself won't hurt performance, but some tweaks and apps can, you just have to watch.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-executives-are-suddenly-more-willing-to-quit-the-company-to-work-at-startups-2013-4

rip apple

a king has his reign

Anyone have any experience with replacing the digitizer on an ipad? Mine is cracked and it looks like I could save ~$200 by fixing this myself. looking at some videos, this looks difficult but doable.

unrelated to apple but I began my day by discovering a big crack in my iPad screen and spilling red bull into my mbp

at least now it has wings

in all seriousness, that's unchill

It's ok, it powered off for a sec, I took the bottom off and toweled off the fans and vacuumed out the keyboard and she's good as new.

I already had prior iPad damage from the cat knocking it off things and am going to attempt iPad screen surgery

good luck, hope the fatality level on that shit is low