I HATE APPLE

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

! Wow that's incredible Stevie. I had no idea such a thing existed.

Have you thought of gutting Apple earbuds and fashioning a way to hook them onto your hearing aids for when you don't want to be bothered?

maybe some chewing gum or Scotch tape

maybe just remove the hearing aids and listen to music and ignore people forever

yeah but when I do it w/ the hearing aids it offsets the profound low-tone hearing loss

like "wow so this is what bass sounds like"

Oh great, hard drive recall.
https://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive-3tb/
(taking mine to the Memphis apple store on Monday)

Every time I have to set up a new Mac I remember how horrible and annoying this company has become. So much useless bloatware shit to turn off - bluetooth handoff, iMessages, clear off 99% of the dock, 'natural' scrolling (there's nothing natural about reversing the way EVERYONE WHO'S USED A COMPUTER HAS LEARNED HOW TO SCROLL), no HD/etc. icons on desktop, no apps folder in dock on default so you can use their launcher bullshit, default security will only let you install from the App Store.

I started using Macs in 2001 because Windows was constantly in the way (more true than ever in Win8) but I'm wondering if maybe Win10 might actually be less of a PITA.

lol I like all those things except for a couple icons in the dock

Going back to 10.4 or something would probably look ugly as hell with the fake brushed metal and depth but I remember it as being a much better user experience.

Nah, 10.4 looks and is amazing. 10.6 with 10.7's UI might have been the sweet spot; all downhill from there

San Francisco font will help in the next iter imo

I totally leave natural scrolling on

10.11 is vastly better than 10.10, that's true. It's like a different thing entirely

seriously everything in milo's list is good and works well for almost all people. i mean by all means turn them off/revert them if you want, but they are good defaults.

Everything should be opt-in at all times - do you want your iPad to ring alongside your phone? Do you want messages on three devices sitting within 16 inches of each other?