I HATE APPLE

milo otm.

no, apple doesn't "force" you into its defaults. it just sets everything up in this jagged maze of checked/unchecked's that might soothe grandma wondering where were her earthlink account went, but frustrates nearly everyone else in some fashion.

i use a mouse with a scroll wheel at work and a TRACKBALL at the house.

you've all inspired me to finally go with "natural"

i had been holding out til i got a mac for my work computer but that's never going happen and i dunno why i never realized i could just reverse it myself :/

on my windows 7 work pc i mean

the thing that got me to switch was my ex having a mac and me using his computer all the time and it was such a pain switching back and forth btwn mine and his, couldn't even bear

Why are third-party keyboards so buggy on iOS? I thought at first it was the apps' fault, but they're all as bad as each other (and apparently fine on Android) so I'm assuming it's Apple's fault. They've had long enough to fix it now.

otm, i had to give up on all third-party keyboards because of this

The hardware is still great, but they're really losing ground on the software side. Maybe trying to do too much. Maps, music, email, and the browser are all inferior. And maybe it doesn't even matter as long as they can keep putting out new devices.

their apps just have to be adequate. what do they care if users who know better upgrade to 3rd party alternative (except for itunes, which, gah, the iphone/ipod lock-in there is painful)

recently discovered that google's calendar app is also >>> Apple's

i want a better mail app but everything else seems kind of gimmicky

I like the outlook app. For real.

Actually, this is kind of a tiny tech question, but since we're on mail apps -- I get my work email (outlook) to my Apple mail app, and we use those calendar invitations a lot, and they are just buggy as FUCK for me. For example, every time I get an invite from a certain co-worker, it shows me an old invite instead of the new one so I can't see what the actual date/time is unless I "accept" and then look at my calendar.

ayo Mac nerds, if a Macbook Pro is declining to start up properly, just showing a NO / banned / Ghostbusters-style circle-slash, and an endlessly spinning progress flower wheel thingy, what can one do to encourage it to start starting up again like a goood little computer?

("Reset the System Management Controller Firmware" with shift+ctrl+option?)

Mail app is totally incompetent at Exchange. It gets a lot better in El Capitan/iOS 9 though

if a Macbook Pro is declining to start up properly, just showing a NO / banned / Ghostbusters-style circle-slash

boot from an external and try running disk warrior or disk utility. If those guys don't see it, you're out of luck. Then it's data rescue time or bring it to the pros. Or replace the drive, it's backed up right?

xx-post that happened to me two months ago. Apple genius (well, a trainee that was not too savvy I thought) tried stet's suggestions and a reboot through an external (usb) drive (x-post as per dan's suggestion) but nothing worked.
Turned out to be a faulty HD cable. As I'd replaced the HD that came with the MBP (2010) with a Samsung SSD drive about a year ago I'm not sure if the issue was Apple or Samsung hardware. I'm guessing the latter. Was HUGELY relieved that it was just the (<$5) cable.

The hardware is still great, but they're really losing ground on the software side. Maybe trying to do too much. Maps, music, email, and the browser are all inferior. And maybe it doesn't even matter as long as they can keep putting out new devices.

― calstars, Dienstag, 15. September 2015 02:30 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Speaking as a web developer it's quite remarkable what a clunky piece of garbage desktop Safari has become in the last 2-3 years. Even Firefox recovered well in comparison, not to speak of IE.

I have no probs with current Safari, glad to be the outlier

Yah, I've had the HD ribbon go on a MacBook Pro. Can't remember if I got the no-entry sign on boot up or a question mark.

Apparently it's quite common, and yes, a huge relief to find out it was a cheap fix and that the disk was OK.

I have no probs with current Safari, glad to be the outlier

No problems here either.

Really don't like Apple's OS policy of "it was working, so we fixed it." Absolutely no reason to replace mDNS responder with half-baked DiscoveryD (10.10.4 switched it back). I'm fine with Mail and Safari, but can CoreData be made usable once and for all?

I am sure they had reasons but the new version was definitely half-baked and shipped too early

yeah 'absolutely no reason' seems unlikely.

'hey we are rewriting this old software to be more robust and it'll handle some stuff we're going to introduce in the future'
'oh cool it's ready for next week right'
'uhhh sure'

I'm so far into Google's software now on my iphone that I think a move to android would almost make sense

btw tried outlook for ios and it's not bad

haha my iphone 5 had the sleep/wake button go out for a few months, which is a common enough problem that they extended the warranty for this...and then the button started working again today, out of nowhere

btw tried outlook for ios and it's not bad

I have a friend who works for google and he mentioned that a lots of google people who have apple devices tend to use outlook for email, even though they use gmail addresses. It's generally considered to be the best iOS mail client.

little sketchy on iPad mini, can't figure out how to get the sidebar to disappear

Wonder how Google feels about their email going through Outlook's chinese servers.

I think the outlook client directly connects from phone to yr mail server?

haha my iphone 5 had the sleep/wake button go out for a few months, which is a common enough problem that they extended the warranty for this...and then the button started working again today, out of nowhere

They replaced that button on mine for free as a recall.

Yeah I tried that but the repair center (not an Apple Store) said my phone had been tampered with (it hadn't ) and so couldn't do it.

Someone should ask Tim Cook if he feels safe enough to keep his documents in iCloud

aaaaargrgggggg
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7218207?start=0&tstart=0

Just got the 6S and I'm so angry about the size. It's less comfortable to hold. I have to use two hands to accomplish basic tasks. Why was this a good idea?

presumably a majority of people they spoke to when they were researching the new form factor :-(((((((

it is a tragedy

did they change it form the 6?

no, i had the 5S which was perfect, is now and ever shall be, world without end, amen.

agreed; they're gonna have to make the tech a lot better for me to want to trade up. Or just age me out with increasingly demanding software, which is much more likely.

5s is great

I just got a 6s and love it and it's bigness and thinness. Also that it stays charged longer than the mere 8 hours or so my 5s was capable off at the end.

And 64gb too which is mind blowing.

what are the odds on the 5s size being updated next year? 50/50? worse?

zero

6s plus all the way

ta for advice upthread btw folks - it was that internal connecting cable, and girlfriend's laptop has been given a temporary reprieve from the Mac graveyard.

rumor was that they had an update to the 5 form factor in the pipeline for this cycle and killed it. I don't know if that makes me more or less hopeful.

the ipad mini branding right now is a complete mess

the 5 was kinda the perfect size. but I'm also cool with my 6+

not only was the 5 the perfect size, it was very light as well, noticably so from the 4 and the 6.