I HATE APPLE

My SE2020 is at 91% after 17 months. Hopefully I can get at least as long again out of this, as I'm going SIM-only again next year to save some cash. The 12s and 13s of this world can wait. (All the upgrade pressure comes from the kids, waiting for the old phone... as long as they have something that isn't obsolete they can cope. Currently both have 6S handsets (with my old SE in a drawer somewhere) - all still support iOS 15).

My XS Max is at 90%, purchased in September 2018. Definitely seems like more though.

I think the x / xs design was almost perfect in terms of size and materials

Music on the iMac is just such a frustrating laggy waste of time now. If I pause it to take a telephone call, then there's a spinning wheel problem and 'connecting' status for a while when it resumes

Oh ell, I guess this will be quietly improved in a forthcoming update after a period of complete denial of any problems.

Performance is about the same for me as iTunes but boy did the library stuff get messed up when I integrated with Apple Music and later tried to recover lost tracks from a backup

My iTunes library and Apple Music shall never meet

Snow leopard 4 lyfe

Apple makes me want to smoke crank

fall out of the iphone and i'm never looking bank

lol exactly how i was thinking

Since I upgraded to Big Sur a few months ago, the finder hasn't been able to search in roughly half of my documents, and rebuilding the index hasn't helped.

same

in new Mac OS safari they've swapped the location of the tabs with the bookmarks bar. so the tabs are now above the bookmarks. why why why

Gruber did like 5 rounds on this and actually got Apple to soften some of their goofy UI ideas.

yeah. another weird thing is that the browser title bar changes depending on the color scheme of the website you're on...but you can turn this off in settings. guys...just...leave shit alone...a browser is not a cathedral

Gruber did like 5 rounds on this and actually got Apple to soften some of their goofy UI ideas.

Went into the Apple store in Grand Central yesterday to get a replacement usbc charger for a MacBook Air that was bought a couple of years ago. "No, those are sold out everywhere," the guy working there told me. I went to the Apple website and ordered one, which was of course in stock. Really shitty thing to say to people though, the implication obviously being that we should all immediately shift over to the new laptops with different chargers.

I did pretty much the exact same thing last week but must have had a different guy.

I didn’t have an Air though.

Apple Stores are disgusting places where you’re always made to feel like an outsider, imo.

I just bought a refurbished phone from Apple that doesn’t turn on at all. I charged it for an hour and did that stupid restore button sequence too

I just bought an Apple branded usbc to lightning cable in a vain effort to make my laptop recognise my iPhone 7, but noooo

Works fine with my iPad of approx similar age, but iPhone noooo

Maybe dust bunnies in the lightning port?

Tried that alas, also switching ports on the computer, resetting everything, blah blah blah. Wonder if the port's damaged ...

Safari takes about 1 - 2 minutes to open the google webpage.

Update: this is now solved by emptying caches in the 'Develop' menu every so often, but that's less than ideal.

I don't know what to do about Spotlight not working. It's how I find things on my computer. But now I search for, like, the work 'lake' and it won't find an image that actually has the word 'lake' in the title. But I can't detect a pattern. In any case vast reaches of stuff have closed off to me... but I don't know exactly which!

People say to run: mdutil -E

but it hasn't done anything for me that I can tell.

WTf? $275B? How does a deal like that get done "secretly?"

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secretly-signed-275-billion-deal-with-china-in-2016.2326558/

a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money

The retail experience is just awful these days. No matter what you walk in for, the greeter appears to have never answered this particular question before, looks around, consults thier iPad, then directs you to a table to stand around and wait for someone to help you . Meanwhile legions of Apple staff stand around in groups all looking at their phones

yeah it feels like there are two or three people max in the store who know anything and those are the people you sit on a stool and wait for for 20 minutes or so.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/17/notchmeister-decorate-macbook-pro-notch/

Have fun cake

So fucking stupid

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&pagenumber=

xpost no no, see this is the kind of gloriously useless hoonjadoonja i thought had gone extinct!

xpost oh no

so when you have Do Not Disturb on, the date / time on the menubar turns light grey and is hard to see. The only way to get it back to normal is to turn off Do not Disturb, which continues to interrupt me with stupid sh1t...

lol after updating to Monterey 12.1 my..... Mail won't open??

Restarted the computer and now it's fine.. hmmm

Finally booked a session at the Genius bar (blech!) at the Bromley branch of the Apple store on Saturday - decided to just take the £199 hit and give my mid-2014 MBP a few more years of life by getting the battery replaced professionally. "Ah, we have a couple of those batteries in stock at our Stratford branch - give me a minute... yeah, we can't do it. We're not allowed to service this model any more."

Ava: "What a total scam!". Says the kid with the 2020 Mac, iPhone 8 Plus, who then told me how much she coveted everything in the shop, and spent 20min playing Fruit Ninja on an iPad Pro.

You love it, you hate it.

Did they charge you £199 to tell you that??

No money changed hands. I just had to spend an afternoon pointlessly lugging my laptop to/from and around BR1. The suggestion was I could get a local fella to do it, which is precisely what I was trying to avoid, by going the official route. But I suppose I'll give the shop round the corner a knock next weekend and see if they fancy taking it on.

It would be nice to know what the cut-off is for older gear, and perhaps there's a way I could've found out, but I entered all the relevant info on the website and my appointment was confirmed so...

Yes seems like that should have been caught.

MBP is working fine, btw - on mains power. It will even run for 60-90min on battery if not overly taxed (watched an hour of iPlayer last night, for example). But any CPU/GPU-intensive thing - or, increasingly, launching any app that's not already in the background - will shut it down in minutes. Obv I haven't taken it out of the house (until Bromley!) in nearly two years so it's not a disaster, just a PITA. 1102 battery cycles and counting.

Can't be upgraded beyond Big Sur, so perhaps that was the cut-off? Maybe I can get an Apple silicon model in 12-18 months, but it would be nice to hand this one down. Maybe that window has closed.

the battery on my work mbp* is swelled up so much that it won't lay flat anymore. i've put little feet on it so it doesn't wobble when i type.

(i swear it used to say 'mid 2015' or something similar, but now it's giving me an actual hardware version 'MacBookPro11,5')

1.5GB "Security Patch" waiting to be installed, over 3G.

> i swear it used to say 'mid 2015'

it still does, if i use my eyes.

There was/is a recall program for those:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall

@michael https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/12/macbook-air-pro-2013-2014-vintage-products/

the complete list is at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624

Ah, thanks!

Not really clear if Mid-2014 MBP 15" was added to that list before or after that March 2020 post (which includes the 13"), but all rather academic now. It's certainly in the "vintage" category. Of course, the Apple stores were closed for months when I first started thinking I should do something about this but I may have been out of luck even immediately pre-Covid.

Still, it would've been really easy to actually respond to my web appointment info with an email or text.