I HATE APPLE

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

The babality level is mid

accidentally deleted a 20 minute vid from my iphone. surprised there aren't more file recovery programs for these, considering they're only the most widely distributed smartphone in the world. only options seem to be 2 dodgy software programs that spam the internet and apple forums without any real human being saying I used it and it worked?

yeah not being able to undelete stuff is a huge pain in my ass tbh

icloud saved my photos which let me recover them when my phone got stolen a few months ago. can you use icloud for this?

actually, that's a good question. if you have it set up properly it should be backing up your camera roll, and i think that stuff could possibly maybe maybe be in there

that was the first thing I looked at, but apparently icloud only backs up over a wifi signal. I took the video while I was out, and accidentally deleted it shortly afterwards, so I doubt it would get backed up. I'm not even sure how to access photos uploaded to icloud. went to icloud.com and photos isn't even an option there...

they wouldn't be. give me a second

"iCloud backs up your" "Photos and video in the Camera Roll"

http://www.apple.com/iphone/icloud/#backup

at the very least, make sure you have that turned on for the future. might want to look at this too:

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/photo-stream.html

doubt that helps w/ your current predicament though

it does not

thx tho

If you carry an LTE ipad mini around , is there any reason to also have an iPhone?

you can't take calls on an ipad mini - can you imessage?

You can. For calls you could have a cheapo phone

yeah, and also for non-iphone txts

I keep my mini at home and use what's basically an iPod out and about. The mini won't fit into my pocket. I use the iPod as digital pocket watch. It's easier for me to whip out my camera instead of rummaging through my knapsack. When I'm at the store using an app to figure out if 16 oz at $3.89 is a better deal than 12.5 oz at $3.05, I can comfortably hold it in one hand. (I feel goofy enough walking around the supermarket with my grocery list on my iPod. I'm not quite at the point of using even a mini in the Kroger frozen foods aisle.)

without the cover, the mini fits in either my front or back pocket as long as Im not wearing jeans.