Posted on 01/05/2015 7:48:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Respected developer Marco Arment is worried about Apple's future.
In a blog post he writes: "Apple's hardware today is amazing it has never been better. But the software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I'm deeply concerned for its future."
Arment was CTO at Tumblr before he left to start Instapaper, the first app that let users save stories to be read later. He also launched Overcast, an increasingly popular podcasting app. He records his own podcast, which has a devoted following in Apple and developer circles.
Arment is not an alarmist. He dislikes people who are alarmist. And he knows the reaction his posts will provoke, so he's generally careful with his words.
"Apple has completely lost the functional high ground," Arment says. "'It just works' was never completely true, but I don't think the list of qualifiers and asterisks has ever been longer."
Arment blames the prioritizing of marketing for the problems with Apple's software. Apple wants to have new software releases each year as a marketing hook, but the annual cycles of updating Apple's software are leading to too many bugs and problems, he says:
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I have a 4s iPhone running OS 6, and a second generation iPad also running OS 6. No problems. Refuse to update the OS system,
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Have a ten year old iPod, a iBook computer running OS 10.3, a Mac 575 running OS 8 and a Mac Book Pro running Snow Leopard. I’m happy with all my computers.
I will probably upgrade my phone when my contract expires this Fall, reluctantly. I like the old graphics interface, I don’t care for the new one.
That’s why I bought the stock. Love the product, and thought it would be a good investment for when I’m a senior citizen.
Use the free App Handbrake to rip your DVD to an MP4 file and run that from an SSD. Carrying DVDs around is a bummer and DVD players gobble up battery power.
There is a considerable after market for adapters that let power users take out the DVD drive and replace it with a hard drive or SSD.
If you take care of you iPhone it will pay for the upgrade via trade in value. My wife and kids all got iPhone 6s by trading in their iPhone 5. No cost to them except a $30.00 activation fee.
You are paying for your upgrade with your contract. I will admit that used iAnything holds its value very well. I am tring to get an old iPod Touch for my daughter’s birthday, and even the 8GB/2G models are still in the $50+ range.
The only way to know the cost of the phone is to take the no-contract price. You can deduct the used price, too, but the difference is still substantial.
Bofuss. I liked the OS on the Apple II GS much better than the Mac OS. I even had a graphical interface for the Apple II back in the day. There were clones in those days, good thing because an Apple IIc was not cheap.
What value is a phone with no service? Just use an iPod of iPad mini.
I’m fighting with File Vault on a brand new laptop right now.
Right out of the box, basic set-up... Encryption just stopped. Had to diskutil cs delete to pull the partition and am re-installing 10.10 from a usb stick.
None of the Mac forum threads or FAQ’s were a help. They’ve known this was an issue since at least September 2014.
iPods on eBay
That’s where I’m looking. The real cheap ones are broken.
No way! Not according to the Appleheads on this forum.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
My top Dentist is still using his 4s and had similar problems. . . but iOS 8.1 and then 8.1.1 and 8.1.2 solved the vast majority of them on his iPhone. He is quite happy now.
Some people with the 4s had no problems at all. I think it may have had to do with parts from different vendors installed in various versions of the 4s. The iPhone 4s was the most sold iPhone in history and made in various assembly plants in China and in Brazil under various contracts. Over the time it was made, and because of the quantities, the suppliers for component chips varied over time. This may have made a difference on how particular iPhone 4ses responded to the upgrades.
Our first sufferer from the MAPS syndrome.
Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new ICD-10 addenda:
90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.
It is obvious you have never used any of Apple's software at all.
I highly recommend a Roku box as a DVD alternative. Previously I would buy or rent DVD's, but between Netflix and Amazon Instant Video, there is all the content I could possibly consume. At least personally, most movies I watch just once, so burning them to DVD does not serve much value; and those little DVD cases take up room. For that matter, finding a particular movie in a stack of DVD's becomes bothersome unless one is meticulous about keeping things alphabetized (is "2,000 Leagues Under the Sea" filed under "T" or "2").
And I'm sure that most Apple users are like me in that they are likely amused or perhaps mildly annoyed at the appearance of “Apple haters”. But we understand that, like moths drawn to the light, Apple haters are irresistibly attracted to threads having to do with Apple. They simply can't help themselves.
It has nothing to do with Apple in particular. ALL stocks are falling today. NYSE was down 330 or so, NASDAC was down around 80. ObambiCare is hitting every major business starting today and OIL dropped below $50. . . and both of those are going to have a major effect.
Another MAPS sufferer chimes in. . . a long term, chronic case.
Got a Roku Box Thingy for Christmas.
Love it.
Two suggestions. Pull the RAM and reseat it. . . and re-install Snow Leopard. Those usually handle that issue.
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