it is frustrating being unable to revert to earlier versions of apps
― mookieproof, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And this. I've still got an eMac stored away somewhere that obviously hasn't been updated in awhile. At least I can go back and see my 2008 Quicken tax returns if I want to.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
lol apps
slow down yr life to my speed
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
Morbs otm tbh, nothing needs to be fast
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
the slow phone movement
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
I was reading this David Hockney quote about how artists can humanize technology and it seems like apple could use more artists if that's true
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
*runs to code app that makes images slow-render on your phone late 90s AOL style*
The thing that really lags is end user-facing software development as a mature practice. Part of it's the evolution of APIs and the loss of compatibility, part of it is having server-side resources that eschew versioning and compatibility for having a single maintained version of an API live at any time.
Imagine every new software revision is a new take on the highway system. I decide that the way forward is small electric cars, so I redesign every road, stop light, parking lot to be the absolute best choice for my new car. I also design the car to work exactly on these roads -- I don't even need half the legacy features, because it'll never drive on a road that predated my new car's existence.
That's how a lot of software design works, and it's completely insane.
― mh, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
It’s 2014, and consider one hot blogging site, Medium. On a late-model computer it takes me ten seconds for a Medium page (which is literally a formatted text file) to load and render. This experience was faster in the sixties.
this is so otm. just send yr link to a .txt file. i just want the information i don't need the presentation.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
this is precisely my experience, right down to the age of my ipad
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/magazine/what-i-learned-from-watching-my-ipads-slow-death.html
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 02:59 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too, and it's the sole reason i have never bought another ipad
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
You should be able to install an old OS which was designed for the processors and RAM of older ipads. There should be laws for this kind of stuff so that a lot of very usable electronic equipment doesn't just end up in landfills.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:59 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i find it interesting that apple pushed the ipad 2 & 3 all the way to ios 9, which utterly crippled those models, and then decided to abandon them
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
repurpose old ipads as digital picture frames. imo
― 龜, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
I used to have a nicely jailbroken ipad air. Then one day I made the fatal mistake of letting it update to 10.2.1, at which point the jailbreak era has really gone to shit - I tried Meridian, COf3, Saigon and none of them work. I'd love it if some hotshot found a crack for rolling back to any older IOS systems, that would stick it to them. But I suppose anyone that good probably ends up working for them.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
alba your argument about security is pretty convincing. herrman's piece is pretty good but he could have gone farther. as caek says it's not just hardware that gets abandoned, it's the entire macos that feels that way. frankly even ios feels behind the times, has felt behind the times, for years. why is itunes syncing so janky? it's not because of security. it does feel like people are having their ways of doing things deliberately sabotaged (gaslighted??)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
is windows or android « ahead of the times » ? I have to use both for my kids and they seem at least as shitty. is there a with the times alternative ? artisanal DOS
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
i dunno i've never used them. i just feel like such a mook trying to like, copy two words from one app and paste them into another app
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
oh uh i HAVE used windows and yes it feels ahead of the times a little! or it at least feels actively paid attention to. macos increasingly feels like some desolate, empty conference centre after everyone's gone home
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
there are consumer televisions with slicker UIs than macos at this point
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
I wish someone had paid attention to how to get my daughter’s calculator to sync w windows 8 tonight. peripherals like that are always a crapshoot and I don’t know if it’d have been easier on Mac OS. but this sucked tonight.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
are you just talking about like YouTube now? my orange livebox would be a shitty place to write an article. We just got a ps4 and the ui is so frustrating. i keep having to google how to do things.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
Nintendo Switch is my favorite computer, would use for email
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
Facebook on desktop looks really janky too. i know nobody cares about desktop anymore but man. it's like looking at your previous orders page on Amazon or something.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
I care greatly about desktop and yes, it's a shambles.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
YES!! THERE’S A NEW YOUTUBE APP FOR THE APPLE TV!! I BET THEY’VE FIXED ALL THE PROBLEMS!! LET’S SEE HOW MUCH BETTER IT oh
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 9 February 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
On the MacRumors forums, upcoming HomePod owners have also listed some songs they'll be using to test out the HomePod's capabilities when it arrives, including "Hotel California" from The Eagles, "Prelude and Kiara" from Bonobo, "Hits and Exit Wounds" from Alabama 3, "Core" from Stone Temple Pilots, "Your Latest Trick" by Dire Straits, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
― 龜, Friday, 9 February 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
no Sting??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
It only plays U2
― DJI, Friday, 9 February 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
for some reason there's a part of my brain hard-wired to play Sting's single from 1999, "Desert Rose", any time I see his name on its own
now I'm imagining that coming out of a homepod
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
cool that the base of apple's massively overpriced speaker is also etching circles into the furniture of users around the world, good job guys
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 February 2018 11:44 (six years ago) link
the solution is simple, simply restore your furniture after each use
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 16 February 2018 11:52 (six years ago) link
lol thx apple
the good news i guess is that it only seems to be affecting people with more expensive furniture - yr shitty ikea mdf desk is unlikely to be affected
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 February 2018 12:02 (six years ago) link
omg
The speaker requires a flat and solid surface in order to function correctly. Placing it on a coaster or mat negatively affects the audio quality, diminishing the bass response of the speaker – one of its key selling points.
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 February 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link
I want one so bad. I don’t have nice furniture.
― Jeff, Friday, 16 February 2018 12:37 (six years ago) link
apple aiming for that demographic sweet spot of 'affluent enough to want a homepod, not affluent enough to have nice furniture'
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 February 2018 12:41 (six years ago) link
I’m so annoyed by the ecosystem capture this apparently extremely nice powered speaker requires that I am probably going to buy something else I don’t really need out of pure spite
― El Tomboto, Friday, 16 February 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
great opportunity for u to invest in a luge imo
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 February 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
2nd gen crap usually big improvement over 1st gen. Hold out for a year
― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
“I never wanted a home speaker until Apple told me I did”
― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
I already have four amazon surveillance devices, I just want to make sure all the big tech companies have equal access to spy on me.
― Jeff, Friday, 16 February 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
Jeff’s introducing all that extra data to the system to help wreck any spying initiative
― mh, Friday, 16 February 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, February 16, 2018 8:42 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark
sometimes there isn't a 2nd gen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi
― 龜, Friday, 16 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/apple-s-new-spaceship-campus-has-one-flaw-and-it-hurts lol
― 龜, Friday, 16 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
I forgot about the hi fi! Anyone here own one?
― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Everyone needs to chill and buy a 20 dollar HomePod coaster
http://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/15/pad-and-quill-homepod-coaster/
And besides it’s not only Apple designers that clearly, like my grandfather, cover every wooden surface with glass.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sonos-one-white-stains-wood-homepod-3396911
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 16 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
lol my friend and I immediately said “we need to sell a homepod coaster to chumps” when we saw that initial story of course someone beat us to it
― mh, Friday, 16 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Is the silicone foot colored or natural (semi translucent)?Where I work we have had countertop-staining issues with TPEs but not really with silicone.
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 16 February 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
matches the speaker color, I think
Sounds like it’s meant to have firm contact with whatever it’s on for bass transfer, so using a coaster is dampening it a little
― mh, Friday, 16 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
just buy a plastic placemat
― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
I just bought a 10.5-inch Space Gray iPad Pro specifically to use as a coaster for my HomePod. It keeps the aesthetic intact, and the proprietary hardened glass of the Retina™ screen profoundly tightens the HomePod's (already unprecedently tight) bass.
― mick signals, Friday, 16 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
(^ i can't tell whether he's joking)
― koogs, Friday, 16 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
you’re holding it wrong
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Friday, 16 February 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link