I HATE APPLE

i wish i had known about the "iOS8 is slow as balls on the ipad2" before upgrading -- i only use that thing for casual web browsing / netflix-in-the-call-room and it runs like a dog now

yeah, I am pretty sure the memory you see allocated to kernel_task is your free memory

Didn't realise how much I was starting to resent OS X until reading that. I don't think I'd mind the efforts to streamline with iOS if iOS itself hadn't become so stale. There aren't enough vital innovations and developments to justify annual releases which leads to all this annoying tinkering with perfectly functional software and annoying gimmickry.

They need to do another Snow Leopard-type release

Unrelated: Why after all these years does preview still not support gifs?

mh, i no longer do academic science. i am a data scientist now. but yeah, all python, all the time. i know it's made a lot of progress in the HPC/compute cluster world, although that was never really my thing. e.g. ipython makes parallelization trivial(ish), blaze gives you an python frontend for a lot of serious distributed backends, etc. it's certainly the default language in a lot of data science, at least at the prototyping/research/exploration stage, which is mostly what i do (they often switch to scala or whatever for production implementation).

yeah linux on the desktop is still dreadful afaict 10 years after i last seriously used it, but when i talk to the other engineers about stuff like "how do i get spark installed" they are like "no idea, i just did apt-get install". i miss that.

it's cool, I think half of the data crunching we do is statistics, the other half is genomics, and python is used a lot

at my job, that is. at home I don't do a lot of programming and my cat doesn't know anything.

my 6+ is bent and i have no idea how it happened. it bent the opposite way it sits in my pocket

Just think of it as curved.

'A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded'

minor shitness: having to go into image capture to stop iphoto opening every single time I connect my phone or ipad.

I experienced my first frayed power cord as others mentioned above. The Apple Store replaced it for free even though it was originally for a MB Air I haven't had for years.

had a morbid thought the other day when replacing the batteries on my trackpad that my mac mini (mid-2011) was designed and built when steve jobs was still alive

I wonder if the standalone trackpads are going to get force touch eventually. It's pretty neat.

force touch does sound pretty cool but i can't believe they signed off on calling it 'force touch' ffs

it's that apple/pixar/disney/star wars connection

show me on the doll where you were force touched

damn so the mail app on iPhone blows huh

I think it's fine

I use outlook.

I mean I really shouldn't have to scroll down to manually refresh the inbox, there are always sync problems with gmail, for a while it wasn't syncing at all and I had to reconfigure everything, somehow it is hard to delete things from my inbox even if I really want to but I acvidentally deleted things from sent folder without trying

http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/

I spent two years in the Apple camp managing customer service improvement for their technical support contact centres

tbf all of the soft-skills improvement process areas I have had the opportunity to work with all had really weird dynamics

if your job is coming up with graphs showing shortened call lengths and a higher number of resolved issues and presenting results of customer surveys it becomes a life force-draining exercise

👴👴🏻👴🏼👴🏽👴🏾👴🏿

These rehearsals – called ‘dry runs’ (to me it sounds like something you’d pick up from South East Asian street food) –

yeah...

Yo YT people, keep your eyes on the prize

http://i.imgur.com/fEqBYq6.png

Someone tell me how I go about booking an appointment today to tell Apple to fuck themselves.

I could get up from my desk, drive over to the Cadillac dealership and test drive the latest model on a moment's notice. But to try on a goddamm watch? Oh nooooo...

They have cars just sitting on the lot, though. Supply and demand, man.

How's Cadillac doing these days? Paying an Apple founder who doesn't even drive a Cadillac to be in their ads for notional cachet?

Those weren't the only unusual things about the Watch shopping experience. Thanks to his appointment, the reporter got a one-on-one session with an Apple salesperson who allowed him to try on multiple watches.

IT'S. A. WATCH.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RbFPO1APOg

http://bandswapper.com/statement.html

This page needs to be archived and put in the Library of Congress

New Macbook seems pretty awesome, and the keyboard absolutely fine for touch typing on, much to my surprise. Not so happy to be waiting 6+ weeks for my order to be delivered, though.

Fuck it I'll do it myself xp

http://i.imgur.com/L7lvT2L.png

I hope you put it in the library of congress

has anyone sued apple for loss of hearing over the stupid different volume settings for 3 vs 4 conductor 1/8" plugs yet?

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/4/8540935/apple-labels-spotify-streaming

I'm actually all for getting rid of the free tier of Spotify from a "let's pay artists" perspective, but Apple doesn't GAF about that.

isn't 25% conversion to paid actually pretty good?

I guess, but according to this, the royalty rates for the free version are only 1/10 those that are paid out for the premium version: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/11/26/spotifypremiumadsupported

I guess Spotify negotiated that with the labels hoping to convert customers to premium, but those are pretty shitty rates.

I can use my phone to connect to my laptop and control my itunes library using Apple's remote app. But I can't sync the same phone via the same wifi connection because itunes and my phone can't see each other. How does this even work?

http://i.imgur.com/oueOKdk.jpg

Fuck-off headphones probably the most important invention of the 20th c.

the cold apporache battles of 2015

ugh I have Bluetooth hearing aids and and I can stream music to them from my iPhone which is like wow the future is so cool and everything but then I don't have the physical signifier that headphones or earbuds provide and ppl try to talk to me and it's so annoying

I think that was the moment that made me realize headphones not only play you music but also tell ppl not to bug you, like who on earth wd ever be like "oh, a dude w/ hearing aids, he must be listening to music with his phone w/ the mic turned off, I better not try to talk to him"

wear earmuffs everywhere over your hearing aids