I HATE APPLE

I have used a Mac for 5 years at work and still squirm with rage daily at how annoying these fucking things are to use.

A MAJOR source of irritation is using two screens and switching between different windows. I realise I have no right to expect Mac OS to work like Windows, but it's always annoyed me that I cannot choose to have CMD/tab to switch between different windows rather than applications. But whatever, I'd be fine using CMD/` to switch between windows of the same app if it actually fucking worked. Instead, I've got Chrome focused on one screen, Chrome on another, but CMD/` takes me to Word and then flips between Word docs. Maybe there is some logic to this that has escaped me over all these years, but how I hate these shitty machines.

Same arrangement: one Chrome window on the left screen, another on the right. Every time I click in the Chrome on the right, Word comes into focus on the left. There is no combination of clicks/movements that makes this not happen. So annoying.

at completely random times i'll click a finder window to give it focus, and it'll suddenly leap across the screen. this has been happening for years.

Hit ctrl tab to switch between apps, only the mouse is in the area the switcher pops up in and the highlighted option pops to the mouse, which is never what I want...

(alt tab, I think I mean. I'm still not sure which of the 4 ctrl keys I need to press to get it to do what)

fuckin extrernal hard drive cant be read by my new hand me down imac - now I shell out 20$ for paragon ntsf reader! FTS! (fuakdatshit)
of course I dont have much other option - the imac is clever tho - the garphocs card is haunted an dweird triangel randomly appear on scren making me kind o flove thiscomputer

is it.. is it Hanle y??

oh FUCK THIS UPGRADE I can no longer sync my Android (Samsung Galaxy 4.1.2) with iTunes. Literally just doesn't recognise the phone

FUCK UPGRADES FUCK UPGRADES FUCK UPGRADES

What use is it to have Siri if THE THINGS I USE ON AN EVERYDAY BASIS NO LONGER WORK

I can no longer sync my Android (Samsung Galaxy 4.1.2) with iTunes.

how were you ever doing this?

iSyncr

I think DoubleTwist would have worked too

But my phone won't even connect to the Mac in the first place any more - prompts me to download Kies (which...isn't available for Macs any more???). Tried the Kies alternative, Smartswitch, which also doesn't recognise the phone is connected

kies was replaced by smart switch iirc, worth a try?

Tried Smartswitch and it doesn't recognise the phone is connected

installed on the phone and the mac? (just checking)

so because I'm not spending $$$$ for an iCloud account, and I want all my data backed up, I have iTunes set to make backups to the computer instead of iCloud
so because I have my phone backing up to the computer and not the cloud, every time I want to add music to my phone, I have to go through a 20-30 minute sync process
I did this the other day and my phone ran out of space and 6 songs didn't make it, and after clearing up some more room to put the 6 songs on, it took like another 15-20 minute sync, <10 seconds of which was actually getting the songs on

am I doing something wrong?? Can you add music to your iPhone without doing a full backup and sync??? I don't run into this often bcz I have Spotify Premium but sometimes stuff isn't on Spotify!

Try just syncing certain playlists. The caveat to that is, yeah, you have to create a playlist whenever you want to add six songs, but it saves a lot of time.

"I don't run into this often" might be your problem. I do the same thing, but I sync every couple of days and as far as I can tell it only backs up things that have changed since the last backup so doesn't take more than a few minutes at most (64GB phone with less than 2GB free space). Maybe regular backups would speed things up?

I used to manage music by just dragging and dropping, avoiding the full backup/sync, but that caused lots of issues for me. Syncing a playlist solved everything.

I go to this well a lot but I'm honestly impressed with all you folks still plugging your phones into your computers; I last did that years ago and I'm afraid to ever do it again

now that Xcode has wireless support, I never will again! I could get that Macbook now.

I just figured out that if the exchange rate was still pre-Brexit, the iMac Pro would cost a possibly achieveable £3k rather than the miserable £5k it looks like it'll be. Argh

my iphone 7's lightning headphone adaptor just shit the bed, £9 for a new one wheeeeeee

Create a smart playlist that is "most recently added, limited to 80gb" or whatever, and include that in the list of playlists the phone syncs then you don't have to manually add new stuff.

I have "most played 80gb" and "added in the last 12 months"or something like that

You can get more complicated with caek's approach if you want - say you want the most recent 5GB of mixes, most recent 2GB of audiobooks, and most recent 23GB of everything else. It's fun!

^ this is the way forward

smart playlists useful in this regard

I go to this well a lot but I'm honestly impressed with all you folks still plugging your phones into your computers; I last did that years ago and I'm afraid to ever do it again

― softie (silby), Thursday, 8 June 2017 00:43 (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for me it's (a) itunes backups are more comprehensive and (b) got sick of removing stuff from my icloud backup to get it under 5 gb

How much the 50 GB option where you’re from? Over here, it’s $.99 a month, so I just pay it.

And I don’t connect my iPhone to my iMac.

itunes backups are free and limitless

only to iCloud, and they're not limitless in that you can run out of space!
additional space is cheap, though

I linked my phone to work email, though, and part of doing so was installing a security profile that disabled iCloud backups, among other things. I'd imagine it's pretty standard, since it's an Office in the cloud mail setup

Sometimes living in the Apple ecosystem makes things very easy. I’m an Apple Music subscriber; unless they changed something, all I have to do is add an .mp3 to iTunes on my iMac and it should be accessible from the Music app on my iPhone.

apple's services seem to have become more robust in the past couple of years. when apple music launched it was a shitstorm of bugs and inconsistencies, e.g. you'd upload songs and icloud music library would force-match them to live versions.

only to iCloud, and they're not limitless in that you can run out of space!
additional space is cheap, though

not sure whether this is in reply to me, but itunes backups go via cable to my hard drive. additional space is definitely cheap (and just this week the 1 tb plan became 2 tb for the same price!), but i already have a onedrive/office365 subscription and unlimited google photos.

they had itunes match and apple music working off separate systems even if you had both and it'd be glitchy as fuck, I believe they finally integrated

righto

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/06/08/1418203/im-not-sure-i-understand----how-apples-siri-lost-her-mojo

Some former executives, close observers and even devoted customers say Apple's innovative power appears to be waning, stymied by a lack of urgency and difficulty bringing ideas to fruition. In nearly six years under Chief Executive Tim Cook, Apple's stock has soared but the company has not delivered a breakthrough product on par with the string of hits under late founder Steve Jobs, which included the iPod, iPhone and iPad. "Siri is a textbook of leading on something in tech and then losing an edge despite having all the money and the talent and sitting in Silicon Valley," said Holger Mueller, a principal analyst Constellation Research, a technology research and advisory firm.

the homepod looks great, but apple has so little confidence in siri that it's marketing its echo competitor as a very good speaker first and an intelligent assistant fourth.

this week's announcement was pretty damn solid, but apple is clearly a long way behind behind in some areas. for all that its hardware and stance on privacy seem to be stronger than ever, innovation is basically a lost cause at this point.

innovation is dumb who cares

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-sneakers-shoes-auction-1990s-heritage-ebay/

are those dayo's

deep diabetes-core

in your face jony ive, that's a real design classic right there

I still haven't found a way of getting OS Sierra to talk to an Android phone! I even got a new phone because I thought the problem was that my old one was too ancient but the problem is OS Sierra.

Literally all I want to do is sync a couple of iTunes playlists. Previously iSyncr worked perfectly for this. Now, I think the various apps that are meant to get Androids and Macs to talk to each other can recognise an Android is connected but can't actually access it: iSyncr doesn't open, Smartswitch doesn't allow any sort of iTunes transfer, Doubletwist just crashes.

I've even tried to completely change the way I listen by investigating Google Play and it's automatically trying to upload my entire iTunes library which looks like it might take weeks, is making my computer overload, can't actually be stopped and isn't even doing it by playlist so is useless.

Heelllllllllllp I just want to organise the music on my phone like I used to

iSyncr works fine for me on Sierra. what exactly is happening?

Literally nothing. I mean, when I click on the iSyncr icon it does say "Galaxy" rather than "Where is my USB device?" so it can tell there's a phone there, but nothing happens when I click on that. Sometimes a message on the phone itself will pop up after I've connected it via USB to the Mac saying there's no software that recognises it and I should download Kies (which the Kies website won't let me do as apparently Smartswitch is what Mac users have to use now).

Hm, I've only done the wifi sync. Maybe try that?

I don't see the option for that in the desktop app...

I have iSyncr running on desktop but I never open it to sync, I just see the menu bar icon. I start syncing from the mobile app, and the app lets me choose between wifi and usb.

WHY IN THE FUCK DOES MY KID'S IPAD MINI EASILY CONNECT AND STREAM AUDIO TO OUR AIRPORT EXPRESS AND MY BIG DAD IPAD DOES NOT
WHY DID I SPEND TWENTY WHOLE DOLLARS ON AN AMAZON BLUETOOTH AUDIO THINGY THAT NOTHING CAN ACTUALLY CONNECT AND STREAM TO
I HATE APPLE

also, FUCK

Have you tried asking your kid for help

low blow man