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[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/25140646
karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-legacy-is-dull-products-and-spineless-capitulation/posted in Technology
[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/25140646
karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-legacy-is-dull-products-and-spineless-capitulation/Replying to @GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
Is this where we share all of our Apple woes?
I had to use an iPhone for work the other day. The up arrow to send a text message was present but not responding.
Oh, the autocorrect has highlighted a word it thinks I misspelled, and I’m guessing we can’t send because a word is highlighted?! OK, tap elsewhere on the message to cancel highlight; it still won’t send, WTF? Tap AGAIN elsewhere on the message, and now it can send.
Lots of reaching up to the top of the screen for no reason, too. Why are there controls up there when my thumbs are already at the bottom for the keyboard? I have to reconfigure my grip on the expensive device I don’t want to drop, just for basic user interactions.
iPhone always leaves me wondering who approved the software working like this, have they ever used a computer before; and how is Android going to degrade in an attempt to copy this behavior?
Replying to @f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
I remember trying to get some online account activated that was in the apple ecosystem so I try to do it from my PC and it doesn’t work. Call up customer service and they say use your iphone to do it. I’m like, dafuq does it matter what device I use, it’s the internet it should work with any device. So i try again with Chrome (which is my default because the safari search or whatever apple uses sucks balls). Still doesn’t work. Turns out I not only have to do it on an iphone, but I have to do it using safari browser on an iphone. That’s the day I realized that Apple built their entire company on trapping the tech illiterate and keeping them that way. None of the UI makes sense and a lot of the users act like these byzantine features are completely intuitive and superior to all others. No they aren’t, you just don’t speak any other languages but Apple. Most users probably don’t even know what a file is and far fewer could tell you where the data files in their phone are actually located because from what I can tell the user interface just babies you to whatever you’re looking for with a crappy search function.