I HATE APPLE

Apple weirdly manages to maintain the glow of a company that always succeeds in spite of a long history of failed and disappointing products. I don't think Apple TV is a huge success either compared to Roku and amazon and google's products.

yeah, it's alarming, to be honest. Apple was angling to run the home entertainment department a few years ago and it hasn't succeeded at all. Gonna be interesting to see how its huge investment in content plays out, given that it'll be for platforms that aren't widely used. It's next chance at a game-changing breakthrough is probably self-driving cars.

It doesn’t help, as Gurman points out, that touted features like multi-room support and stereo pairing are still MIA, a couple months after the device’s release.
hilarious

Anyone else having the stuttering iPhone audio issue since upgrading to iOS 11.3? Apparently mostly impacting the 6 and 7 models. More here: http://piunikaweb.com/2018/04/12/ios-113-users-reporting-music-audio-skipping-problem/

It happens to me in podcasts, the native Music app and Spotify. Both streaming and locally downloaded music/podcasts. Restart gets rid of it for a short time, but it keeps coming back.

Yep I’ve got it, really annoying

No way I’m updating to 11.3 then.

Yeah, I would definitely hold off if you haven't. There are apparently lots of other issues, including apparently some folks who've had their screens repaired by third parties getting completely locked out and issues with floating icons. Sounds like one of the buggiest roll-outs for the older models in some time.

I do a lot of stuff with synths on my SE so it sounds like a massive don’t for me

No issues with 11.3 on my SE, though I probably wouldn't have updated if I'd known

no issues with 11.3 on my 6+ (yet)

took advantage of the 29$ battery thing, too. Waited 3.5 months but finally got it. Has given my oldy a little spark of new life.

I had the skipping issue after the 11.3 update but in a very particular way -- only in the podcast player and only when I was listening on the lightning-cable earbuds. never with the bluetooth. I restarted a couple days ago and it has never come back.

I'm still getting the skipping issue from time to time, it seems (for me) to be tied to the lock screen. I seem to be mostly able to avoid the issue if I start playing music or a podcast, pause it, lock the screen, then wait a few seconds and start it up again with the button my headphones. Works about 98% of the time and I'm glad it's a workaround, but c'mon, fix it.

I guess I'm lucky though, lots of reports of the skipping happening on calls too.

thanks for including a "Do Not Ask Me Again" tickbox on your update prompt which apparently does NOTHING AT ALL

is High Sierra ok yet?

i think so

Things have largely settled down since 10.13.4

So for the last year or so, my otherwise-perfectly-fine 9 y.o. MBP is taking an increasing amount of time reconnecting to wifi after waking up. Up to a minute these days. Haven't found any satisfactory explanation/solution online. Any ideas?

Memojis are going to sell a lot of phones.

group facetime finally, apple is good again

I wasn’t sure about this os but yes these Animojis are the thing I need they are so 😎

apple is the worst company in the world

Surely the worst company in the world is an oil company

no its apple
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De3YTBFXcAADKTL.jpg

I keep making little video clips of the pig animoji quoting the Communist Manifesto and wailing about capitalism to send a friend

I demand a future version allows me to create my fursona and not just a human analog of my own face

Anyone else having the stuttering iPhone audio issue since upgrading to iOS 11.3? Apparently mostly impacting the 6 and 7 models. More here: http://piunikaweb.com/2018/04/12/ios-113-users-reporting-music-audio-skipping-problem/

It happens to me in podcasts, the native Music app and Spotify. Both streaming and locally downloaded music/podcasts. Restart gets rid of it for a short time, but it keeps coming back.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, April 16, 2018 8:27 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So get this - the most reliable solution I've found to this problem is to buy a Lightning to 8mmwhatever dongle. Haven't had an issue since. But this is the clearest indicator of planned obsolescence I've experienced, or possible swaying of consumers to not switch over to headphone-available Android by indoctrinating them into the... lifestyle.

iOS 11.3 audio stutter is resolved by a backup then device reset to reinstall the OS. I had it and that fixed it.

Of course after I wrote that it happened again today.

FYI don't shut off your phone if you suspect the firmware update has stalled, it will brick it entirely

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/

otm

So for the last year or so, my otherwise-perfectly-fine 9 y.o. MBP is taking an increasing amount of time reconnecting to wifi after waking up. Up to a minute these days. Haven't found any satisfactory explanation/solution online. Any ideas?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 4 June 2018 14:42 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have this same problem and haven't found a reliable solution, sadly. My MBP is roughly the same era too.

I'd be deleting the plist file myself:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/11/30/resolving-stubborn-wi-fi-connection-problems-in-mac-os-x/

my mac mini is unacceptably slow now, even with maxed-out RAM.. and i keep waiting, and hoping

Feeling like an Apple II user in the era of the Mac tbh. Writing is on the wall here

My next computer (god forbid) will run openbsd probably.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-mac-alternatives/"> https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-mac-alternatives/

Seriously considering the Razer Blade laptop.

Rogue Amoeba OTM.

They can channel some money into mac upgrades once that money from the HomePod comes rolling in.

i tried a top of the line laptop to replace my 2012 macbook pro and despite far superior hardware inside the visuals/screen looked worse, the speakers/audio sounded worse and [not a surprise] the os was an annoying bloated mess in comparison to osx. i'm hoping mac gets their shit together bc i doubt any of those mac alternatives are actual alternatives.

yup. that's what's so sad/terrifying about this decline. the alternatives are even worse.

^

Hackintosh always sounds the dream solution but no doubt the reality can be a nightmare.

no idea what i'd buy if my late 2012 macbook pro failed today.

i know someone who does a lot of audio work, and he would have loved to stay on macs if there were some sort of reasonably priced "pro" tower, but he recently gave up and bought a pc.

^^exactly where I'm at.

I'm on a 2011 mbp and jonesing to upgrade but.... to what ?

could just stick an SSD in it I suppose

waiting for apple to fix its shitty keyboards before i upgrade from 2010 mbp (which is largely fine still)

My 2011 MBP felt completely new after an SSD upgrade.

^ same experience, don’t think I’ll need an upgrade for another few years