I HATE APPLE

lol it is pretty astonishing that they would design it that way

stunning.

makes no sense, but it sounds like you can run it for hours off a five minute charge (full charge takes about two hours and lasts a month) so I'm guessing they're doing some sort of capacitor buffering. or whatever the correct electrical engineering term is

if you could use it while charging then it would be a CORDED mouse. it is a CORDLESS mouse. steve would approve of this dickish move.

idk I have a pretty nice desktop mouse that is both wireless and corded and it doesn't actually charge in corded mode -- you have to set it on the base/charger when not in use to charge

lol Tracer with the semantics

On a par with hiding all the iMac ports round the back instead of on the side where they'd be more accessible, and making the power button so flush you can barely find it by feel and have to peer round the back just to turn the fucking thing on.

if you don't freak everyone out just a little with every launch, how do you know you're innovating hard enough?

- the zip hoodie code, #32

also that is still pretty much a ridiculous place for them to put that port on the mouse, didn't mean to excuse that. lol

reminds me of how the ps3 controller power cords are too short to reach any couch so you need to buy two controllers and cycle them.

A beached dead whale on your desk whose very design caused it to strand. This is just as stupidly annoying as the hockey puck mouse.

The garbage thing is Apple will redesign it “new, more conveniently designed and the new Right Way” when it should have been done right the first time. Apple's done this forever both with and without Jobs around. Worse, OF COURSE I'm going to buy one because my magic mouse 1 has been flaking out. Also have to worry about taking a mouse charger with me when I travel.

no trackpad 4 u, elvis?

Apple has never made a good mouse and I applaud their efforts to mock people who want to buy them

I still use the v2 hockey puck every day. I love that mouse

Why don't you marry it then?

It said no

Y'all just didn't click, I guess.

hmmmmmm that photo... if you're supposed to be rolling it on the narrow side like that, they should make it look more like a taco or something

Can't deal with the separate trackpad - even though I'm a laptop full-timer and have one in front of me. I can't get quite the hang of using it in GarageBand and Logic Pro.

I'm addicted to the gestures, can't imagine not being able to see all windows with a simple little push up on the pad

How does the trackpad (not the magic one, just the regular bluetooth one) fare in Windows? my work mouse has seen better days and I'm considering trying it out at work

Mail has crashed out twice since the update, not freezing, just quitting completely out of the blue when I'm not even using it

love the font though :/

Mail crashes all the time for me
Music is terrible now, the number of awkward swipes and taps required to navigate between albums, artists, and playlists is ridiculous

i updated itunes on one of my other laptops (windows) so i could sync some music to my gf's new iphone. i had to update itunes and now my library is empty and about 3 years worth of playlist were deleted.

also, on iOS, Music forgets what point you were at in the song. not every time, just sometimes. so listening to a DJ mix, for instance is so aggravating that it's not worth it

Do you have a backup of your libray.xml file? If so, swap out that file for whatever the new xml file is.

my single most hated iOS feature used to be one of my faves --- i'd plug my phone into my car stereo, and it would just pick-up playing whatever i had last been listening to (be it Music, Rdio, Podcast)

now when I plug it in, it immediately starts playing my library, starting at the beginning of my library, so it's the same song opening every time, and i have to either shut it off or go in and find what i actually wanted to listen to

Can't believe I only discovered three finger drag a few days ago. Almost never have to actually press the trackpad down now.

iOS Music app is probably the worst app i have ever used. like i am considering getting a 3rd party app now??

me too, i have zero investment in itunes, don't care about transferring ratings. it would be nice if i could export my playlists to another app but it's not strictly necessary. i just want an app that can sync with my phone and not forget the point in the track that i stopped listening.

I'm the resident defender of pretty bad apple ui probs and I will now willingly admit that thing has some serious problems

Idk, I really like the music app. iTunes certainly has its issues, but it's the devil I know.

iOS Music app is probably the worst app i have ever used. like i am considering getting a 3rd party app now??

― 龜, Sunday, October 25, 2015 8:28 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what are the alternatives?

I got a new phone and finally upgraded iOS.. Where's "Genius"? :(

afaict there are non unless you are willing to migrate your mac library away from itunes

e.g. for swinsian:

Does Swinsian replace iTunes?

For managing and listening to the music on your Mac, and for users of older classic iPods, Swinsian can replace iTunes entirely. If you use an iOS device you will still need to use iTunes if you want to sync music, videos, books or apps, to make backups.

Which iPod models are compatible?

‘Classic’ iPod models are supported (including Mini, Shuffle, Video and older Nanos). Devices running iOS are only partially supported; copying tracks from them onto your computer may be possible for some devices, but changing the library on the device is not possible. This is due to encryption of the database file checksum by Apple. All iOS devices require OSXFuse to be installed before they can be read. The newest iPod Nanos are not supported.

You could write an app that uses all the library access APIs, you can't write back play counts or whatever, though. Most of the ones I've seen that use music in your library have some other sort of novelty and aren't plain music players.

idk gbx :\\

I was overseas and on very limited data (like EDGE or slower) and sometimes it'd take the iOS app like 15 minutes to open

i have apple music turned off and everything

it was also like my 3rd top data-user

why does that app need to use data just to load my shit

has spotify gotten any better at local file integration?

i have apple music turned off and everything

it was also like my 3rd top data-user

why does that app need to use data just to load my shit

― 龜, Sunday, October 25, 2015 9:35 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this is steady bullshit

on desktop, why is iTunes showing me 'For You' and 'New' as tabs? i've turned off Apple Music on my phone and cancelled my subscription. I can listen to Beats 1 which is cool, and 'Connect' seems to 'work' lol, like I can see stuff, but what is the point of displaying a message from 5 days ago from Charli XCX saying 'I'm doing my own show on Beats 1 at 8pm tonight!!' Tonight? I assume tonight 5 days ago? Cool - but where's a link to the show? Oh I can't listen again? (8pm where, by the way?). Like ggGGEEEAURRGGH???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_bDNaYAr8

miss these days

turning off connect, too, seems to help:

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/07/04/how-to-turn-off-apple-music/

tbh though almost all my iphone music listening now is via subsonic + isub.

phone battery died and when it came back, the little icon for call forwarding had been turned on!! i went to call forwarding preferences, and as soon as i did the icon vanished.

has spotify gotten any better at local file integration?

No still unusable. Can't search local files. Desktop app seems to reindex all of my local files every time I start it.

given that all my "local" files live on a network share that would take a very long time indeed

I have no idea really whether Apple’s new Apple TV is better or worse than rivals like the Roku 4 and the Amazon Fire TV, but I think I can definitively say that it is far superior to the old Apple TV. It’s intuitive, uncomplicated, and — crucially — thoughtful. Is that a ridiculous thing to say about a set-top box? Probably... Should you spend $149/$199 on it? I don’t know. Is this a best-in-class set-top box? Who am I to say?

Why did they even bother to write something

who gets paid for this shit