cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/25140646
[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
https://karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-legacy-is-dull-products-and-spineless-capitulation/
https://karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-legacy-is-dull-products-and-spineless-capitulation/
cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/25140646
108 Comments
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 94 pts · 1d
Tim was great for the shareholders and not so much the customer.
I feel like most services got worse, hardware got worse before the M series, but post M I haven’t seen much innovation — just a lot of recycled parts for peripherals like Studio Display, which is premium price but sub premium quality (camera, panel itself, and ports/support).
Phones have massively homogenized under Cook
And software has taken a massive nose dive. As much as I try to like swift, it sucks. And it was a mistake to lose Chris Lattner, because without him Swift has had basically no focus or direction other than boosting SwiftUI.
Nobody has ever managed building production software with Swift outside of app dev, which I think says it finds a poor compromise on real performance vs ergonomics vs safety. I do not think Rust is better, I think Swift makes it too hard to do the right low level things.
AI/Siri has been embarrassing. Shipping cadence is worst in the business, there’s no reason so many updates are tied to OS updates, it’s simultaneously too rapid for trans to build robust software, and too slow to fix bugs and make QOL adjustments.
So when I look back on the last several years of Apple I kinda just see a bunch of departments duct taped together and drifting away from each other, and then the finance team driving all the decisions.
fluxx@mander.xyz · 23 pts · 1d
Having tried both Swift and Rust - you can hardly compare them. For me Rust is in a different league. Swift is a modernization and a step forward compared to ObjC, but Rust is a different paradigm altogether. Swift has IMO done a great job for Apple as a platform, but has not achieved universality and had not transcended the platform. Rust has achieved universality, but has not captured any platform in particular yet. Both have not and may never replace C/C++, though my biased opinion is rust may have a chance (at least with C++)
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
I pick on Rust because of the “write everything in Rust” crowd and just personally I don’t like how the language feels.
I don’t think rust has found fit in the GUI sphere, though it’s getting some adoption from tools like zed, and hopefully some native gui tools get better with it. Swift has some fit there, but it’s not a fair comparison because it’s forced. Swift has nice ergonomics though with callbacks and lib dispatch plus combine that work well for GUIs.
Swift also suffered from poor versioning tools, and platform code differences which have hurt it even if they’ve been patched over.
fluxx@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 13h
I agree on everything you've said. Rust hype is a bit annoying and can be off putting. AI bros seem to have amplified the effect and I strongly dislike it. GUI is probably the worst area of Rust, but given the universality of Rust, I think it's expected. I found egui easy to use, though, but far from swift ui, still.
JustRalph@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
Multiple assumptions here.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 7h
That is a typo
JustRalph@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 7h
I think you underestimate the power of the socks.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 23h
Honest question: how can you make your mark on a product that is already perfect? At some point, software goes from meeting the needs of its customers to meeting the needs of the egos in charge.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 15h
You have low standards if you think Apple products are perfect.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 8h
I'm speaking theoretically about the software cycle. At some point, the product does what it's supposed to do as best as it can. Then what happens? People in charge feel they need to make their mark, so things just kind of drift around for no solid design reason worth customers getting used to.
Thanks for explaining the downvotes, though.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 1d
As an aside:
John Apple is a spineless fuckwit and immediately capitulated
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 14h
I heard they are hiding behind explanation that their maps update data automatically from USGIS databases, though that is lame explanation as they can easily override it, like MapQuest did.
When he was changing name of Gulf of Mexico they didn't have problem to make it show only four US audience.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 13h
MapQuest didn't really do anything, it uses OpenStreetMaps which is a community effort and doesn't have localized place names the way Google and Apple maps do. E.g country names for me in google maps aren't their local names, nor the GNIS names you'd see in the US, they're names in my own language. In Google on particular, there's literally no "United States" on the map, only "Ameerika Ühendriigid" for me, Apple has fewer localizations but still shows many things in Estonian to me. There's a large degree of automation there for them to do this in I'm assuming 100+ languages for anything they can (i.e country names and large bodies of water as well as many cities are in Estonian for me, but most other places are just global defaults). Once you start adding manual overrides, shit like this gets way too difficult to manage for little reason.
So same as Lake Ontario. Because when you're in the US, it pulls names from GNIS as far as I know, and in other places it has other sources or just static datasets of their own. I still see Ontario, the global default, in both Google and Apple maps.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 48 pts · 20h
Apple is a garbage company. Better than google is not an acceptable measure, and they are only performitiely better than google anyway, they pretend to not kowtow a bit before they do. Google just deepthroats authority because they are the worst.
The only solution is here is to go open source. Tech is an existential risk to society, and already it's late to stop them. We can stop them though, together.
percent@infosec.pub · 20 pts · 16h
I remember when that would be a pretty high bar. It's a bit of a distant memory at this point though. It's crazy how bad tech has become.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 8h
I don't even think they can be called performatively better than google. Has google personally gifted Trump tacky golden shit? Feels like apple has kissed the ring a lot more.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 7h
GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2h
Honestly if there are good alternatives to apple, I would switch to alternatives, I am seriously considering buying a fair phone
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 1h
Google pixel phones above I forget 3 or 5 can carry graphene os, you can get a used one on swapp or elsewhere for about 300 dollars. Idk about ubuntu.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 45 pts · 1d
The main thing I remember about Tim Cook was him making me realize how wealthy white cisgender gay men were hardly different from wealthy white cisgender straight men.
The whole article has always been really worth a read, seeing how a techbro tried to turn a classic magazine into a tech company somehow. Besides that though, these passages always stuck out to me, because it feels deeply like these wealthy men exploit their sexuality to justify avoiding critique of their actions outside of their sexuality.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-collapse-new-republic
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 43 pts · 1d
Billionaires aren't people in the same sense that we are, Cook has turned his back on the queer community, so he can say whatever he wants about himself, but he's not gay in the same sense that the rest of us are.
potato_lemon@feddit.nl · 33 pts · 1d
Yeah. Billionaires are not people. Good point.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 22h
Their biology is the same. What's missing is common cause.
Sims@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 1d
Not Gay, so don't know about that angle, but they are ALL some high level of Pscho - just to have ended up where they are. There is simply no way you can be the head of a big Corp and not have trampled on workers, co-workers, customers as well as more fair-minded smaller corps and anything in between. 'Competition' is a white-washing word for 'eternal economic war' that at that level always spills over to law-fare, info-wars, political corruption/manipulation, psy-ops and any dirty trick in the book - all in the name of 'Competition' and being "successful".
These sick people would sell someone else's mom as slaves if they could get ahead on that move, but will always appear lovely, friendly etc, simply because that is the image they want people to see, and that is the image they are paying big money to other corps to create.
It is pretty cringe to see people worshipping these disgusting sub-humans in charge of big corp..
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 14h
Same with Bessent, or maybe even worse.
They want us to flight because of color, gender, sexual orientation etc. so we don't notice that the real war is a class war.
It's sad that so many people still don't see this.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 11h
Ain't no war except class war.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 18h
I actually saw a similarity in him with powerful black corporate women. The world wants them to fail. If they do, it’s because it’s taboo for them to succeed so they deserve it. Tim masked heavily and succeeded in doing exactly what he needed to do, generate momentum for the next guy.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1d
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/07/tim-cook-gift-to-trump/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
capital5@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1d
s/gift/bribe/
TheBluetoofs@piefed.social · 23 pts · 1d
Agreed. The new CEO isn’t off to a great start, either. Bending the knee in your first few days is not a good look.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1d
RIP Tim Apple. You embarrassed a once innovative brand but at least you made a lot of money.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
obvs@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1d
MacOS was so much better when Steve Jobs was in charge.
Tim Cook REALLY made it worse. Steve Jobs made sure the user experience was generally good, although admittedly there were many times when he was pigheaded. On a personal level, Steve Jobs was a terrible person, but he made the operating system very good and very consistent.
And Tim Cook didn't care about any of that, and macOS is now SUPER inconsistent and much less user friendly. It's still better than Windows, but MAN is it so so so much worse.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 31 pts · 1d
Arguably, he'd still be alive today if he wasn't so pigheaded.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Behind the Bastards had a good one on Jobs, where they went into a little bit how he believed in this mucus theory, it was pure madness. And it’s why he died.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 1d
The problem there is that Windows has been lowering the bar for a decade now.
JiveTurkey@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Engineers made the OS good. Steve didn't do shit.
obvs@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Well that's not correct.
Engineers are great at developing a product.
But having someone at the end who's using the product and insisting on consistency because he's anal-retentive and a pain in the ass will mean the product is consistent with the evaluator's goals.
macOS used to have a lot of underlying features that worked consistently no matter which app you were using, and Apple destroyed that.
Either Jobs was having an effect, or it's a damned strange coincidence that the severe reduction in consistency in macOS started just at the point that he died.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
Yeah, Apple were doing so great with their engineers until 1997, and then Jobs came back and ruined things.
pycorax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13h
At least he gave us some basic window management features. It's still miles behind what Windows and Linux has unfortunately.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 23h
His tenure is that of a businessman, not an innovator or visionary. Good or bad, Jobs was all three.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 22h
Vissonary maybe but innovator?
IPhones & MacBooks were well built & marketed but neither was really innovative.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 18h
iPhones literally were visionary. The whole industry was trying to imitate blackberry and overnight apple made them completely irrelevant. Android changed to what it is from what was originally a blackberry interface.
MacBooks, yea, it’s a laptop. They had some really good ideas in there, sure. MagSafe and touchpads that didnt royally suck ass were welcome features. The M-series lighting a fire under intels ass was exactly what the entire industry needed. Love them or hate them, even when Apple is bad, they create good trouble in an industry that needed to be proven wrong from time to time.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 4h
What was the innovation in the iPhone?
It was worse in almost every way except marketing than the n900.
The technology had reached the point where you could have smartphones by then, I don't see what was innovative about iPhones.
You can call it visionary, sure because he spread his vision for a locked down phone, but where is the innovation in the iPhone?
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 13h
And the apple mac, the iMac, iPod, and the iPad, and cofounding apple. Even the concept of iLife and the market targetting strategy. Yes, innovator.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 13h
The Apple Macintosh wasn't innovative. Here's how you "innovate" an Apple Mac: Take an existing product of your company, the Apple IIGS. Make that worse by reducing the processor clock speed so your new product will be superior in some way, because your new product is going to lack backwards compatibility, internal expansion card slots, color graphics or multi-channel audio.
The iMac wasn't innovative. It was an evolution of their existing product line in trendy packaging.
The iPod wasn't innovative. Even the UI was taken from Creative. Rio beat them to the market by several years.
The iPad wasn't innovative. I was handed a Dell tablet PC a full decade before the iPad hit the market.
Apple was innovative twice in its very long history: The Apple II was the first microcomputer that combined color graphics with internal expandability, and the iPhone had a capacitive touch screen. The most innovative thing Steve Jobs ever said in his life was "You can just use your finger."
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10h
The first computer I ever used (not counting punch cards or the VIC-20) was an Apple IIe, and I can confidently say that color was green. Later versions of the Apple II had full color, but that wasn't "innovation" by Steve Jobs, it was just the technology for it becoming affordable.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5h
That was a limitation of the monitor you were using, not the computer. All models of Apple II to include the Plus, e and c had color graphics. But it was common practice to pair them with monochrome monitors, first because they're cheaper than color monitors, but also...the way the Apple II achieved a 16 color palette was through NTSC artifacting. It only ever tried to send something like six colors over the cable, but when you put two dissimilar colors next to each other, they get smeared together somewhere in the analog domain and they come out some other color. It allowed them to achieve 16 colors, but it had a drawback: Text that was supposed to appear black and white would have green and purple fringes, which made it blurry and hard to read. So if you were using the machine for business or something you might choose a monochrome monitor to get sharper, easier to read text. Apple's first party monochrome monitors were indeed green.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
Huh, interesting to know. Ninth grade me didn't give a shit about things like that.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3h
I've kinda known that most of my life because my elementary school had a lab of IIes, most of which had color monitors, a couple of them had monochrome monitors. So there were a couple of them that were inexplicably "just green." Most of the rest of that I learned from The 8-Bit Guy on Youtube.
That Wozniak guy's a good electrical engineer. Clever dude.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1h
Demoscene groups CRTC & Hornet recently got 1000 colors out of the original IBM CGA card using this technique.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
The first phone with a capacitive touch screen was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada the iPhone was built with the technology that was around at the time.
People credit the iPhone with creating smartphones but much like Tesla's the tech was ready and they launched at the right time. I guess Apple patented multitouch slowing down adoption of multitouch on laptops by decades, but I'd credit Apple with that not Jobs.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4h
A computer, an MP3 player, a tablet, starting a business.
How are any of those innovations?
I'd say killing yourself by ignoring medical advice for an easily treatable desies or pretending your daughter isn't yours were innovations, but royals have been doing that for centuries.
Like what did he do that was innovative?
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20h
Yes and no, the first iPhone was innovative, but after that, it just became refinement.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 16h
It wasn't innovative. They took existing products, and polished and marketed them. Apple has always been a lifestyle brand.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 4h
What was the innovation in the iPhone?
It was worse in almost every way except marketing than the n900.
The technology had reached the point where you could have smartphones by then, I don't see what was innovative about iPhones.
VinegarChunks@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 3h
We can accurately point out that the technologies of the iphone (processors, cellular telephony, cellular data, GPS, touchscreens, bluetooth, cameras, etc) were not invented by Steve Jobs.
But his company took those parts and put something together that a few billion people decided was far more valuable than the sum of those parts. And they all decided to start carrying all these tools and using them fifteen times per hour, when they didn’t before.
It’s really hard to argue that’s not innovative.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2h
How do you define innovation?
I don't consider being in the right place when the tech fell into place, innovating (see also Tesla, MS-Dos, etc).
I think he was a visionary in that he had a vision and made it reality, but what was the innovation?
undrwater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1h
Innovative marketing of a product users couldn't break (easily).
chewypoops@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 7h
There were way more than 2 things that Apple produced under Jobs...
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
Ok and none of them were innovative.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 16h
jobs was not an innovator, hes good at marketing, he as ruthless as a business as any other.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
To be fair, once we reduced electronics to black slabs and tiny earbuds there’s not much more we can revolutionize
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1d
We could have not done that, or we could have at least made the software better.
I remember thinking things like rollable screens and shit would be fun, but even that shit no one wants to risk anymore
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 22h
Blame jobs, not cook.
Also, fuck jobs, the liver stealing psycho
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 22h
Why not both?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22h
fuck em both, but Cook wasn't the one that started the enshittification trend with the ipod
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 22h
Yea, fuck them both.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3h
That's why I'm confused by this article. It just seems like attacking Apple for the sake of attacking Apple. I say this as someone who used to be a Apple hater because Apple products were far more expensive than their competitors (now everything is just expensive) and I couldn't afford them back then.
People expect constant revolutionization, but 1) that's not feasible and 2) what are they looking for exactly? What do they want to see done?
People say how bad the software has gotten on Mac, but I don't see it. Sure, they have bugs around the time the next big OS update rolls out (much like any other OS including both Windows and Linux), but 1) you don't have to upgrade to the latest version as soon as it updates and 2) they fix the bugs soon after that.
The only good point the article seemed to have is the Apple Vision Pro VR part, I will agree with them on that. Other than that, it seems just like an attack article, and done by anger, and like fair enough, but that doesn't mean they don't have good products.
I dunno, this is probably an unpopular opinion anyway, and I never expected I would be an Apple defender in this sense, and I don't even have an iPhone because I prefer Android's development ecosystem, and on my PC I have been daily driving Linux for the past 9 years anyway.
DementedSociety@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 7h
Fuck this guy give the gross pedo gold gifts, what an absolute piece of fucking shit.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 1d
15 years later and the Photos app on iOS is still the same nearly useless pile of shit.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 18h
That is absolutely untrue. Apple has spent tons of time and money in ruining that app and it is a pinnacle of useless trash today thanks to those efforts. Respect.
zqps@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 15h
It exists to sell iCloud subscriptions, and by that measure (the only one that matters in this world) it's a huge success.
dgriffith@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 18h
Your just not using it the Approved Apple Way™ that's all.
/s
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 8h
I never owned an apple product because of their "killing batteries from afar" fiasco. Once I saw Tim Apple giving trump little golden trinkets on television I knew my decision was right. It reminded me of putting money in the collection plate.
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3h
For me it was "forced integration of your music library with Apple music" when the ipod was all the rage that stopped me.
tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 3h
That was the death knell for me as well. I think it was around when I had my last iPod, the... Nano?
darkmogool@feddit.org · 9 pts · 14h
Applle is…cooked
hansolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 4h
Willing to bet $10 the next guy drives it straight into the ground harder and faster.
NedRyerson@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1d
I read that as "spineless copulation" and was both confused and a little intrigued as to how that could be
frongt@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
Plenty of nonchordate animals reproduce sexually. Tapeworms, for example.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 8 pts · 15h
Who the hell designed that rainbow?!
nelly_man@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 15h
Rob Janoff
Zozano@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 14h
"I dunno about no Rob Janoff, but I know all about how to Rob Juanoff, if yaknow what I'm sayin"
rmuk@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 3h
Flawless.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 3h
A+
Clearly you don’t need no instructions to know how to rock
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 3 pts · 13h
Oh. I see.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 8h
dude can't even design a website that scrolls properly and he's responsible for billion dollar company logos‽
lemmelemmy@feddit.org · 6 pts · 3h
Opinion? That’s a fact. We use androidified version of iOS just because the guy was just after profiting.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 3h
The fuck is that last sentence supposed to mean?
toxicbubble@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
i think it means ios is basically Android software with less features
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1h
Android features with a UI as dumb as facebook so they can slap their proprietary mix of stupid gestures and menus and where the fuck are my files located and how are my photos on the cloud already I didn't want to do that, who the fuck made this shit, why is my phone facetiming my boss on accident wtf is going on, why does everything feel like a Tim Robinson skit. Ya but if I don't have the checkmark then I'm the loser or something.
aarRJaay@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
What about Apple Silicon?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
Its not a shiny in your face thing so people dont care, but its something amazing that happened under him.
They also got their first modem, the C series, as well which is quite an achievement. Already got 2 iterations and a 3rd coming out in 2027.
redditStinksSuperBad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3h
Fuck apple. I'll never forgive jobs for nuking the internet. When jobs killed Flash in order to herd users into his app store, the internet was never the same.
olympicyes@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2h
Flash was a buggy piece of shit and was blocking development of HTML 5. Adobe was the monopolist in that scenario not Apple. Sorry about Newgrounds and Strongbad but Flash had to go.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1h
No, you've got it all wrong. Flash was buggy and insecure proprietary software written for proprietary OSes. I'm glad it died, after several years of trying to fight its normalization on the web, where you'd need to install shitty plugins like gnash on Linux to try to see the same web that people were seeing on Mac or Windows.
The web should always be built on open standards, and Flash was the biggest barrier to that ideal at the time that iPhones came out. Flash deserved to die, and I celebrated when it did.
IamBlank@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 3h
Don’t forget the further entrapment in subscription hell with Apple one.
Snapz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3h
"I just fell so blessed to be able to socialize with you and hear such good words you make, and wife, Mr. trump... This is a gold bar I'm laundering to you, and it has a piece of glass worn your name and an army man made it I think!"
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2h
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?
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2h
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.
GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2h
Honestly if there are good alternatives to apple, I would switch to alternatives, I am seriously considering buying a fair phone
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2h
I only buy cheap Androids with Snapdragon and degoogle. Yeah, Android is also starting to suck but at least you are currently allowed to take out the trash.
I learned today that connecting a child's Google account to a device completely neuters the ability to install or manage apps from anywhere other than Google Play. As in: I, the parent, can't even temporarily allow F-Droid to be able to install an app. Fuck Google, too.
Note to self: Lemmy/Voyager ate this comment; I can't see it outside of my comment history but someone else saw it...
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1h
You're describing all of modern computing AFAICT.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1h
Modern mainstream computing, surely! I moved my household to Linux years ago so I may be a bit out-of-the-loop. Everybody can still do what they are trying to do, and more. It's brought back some of the feelings of wonder and fun about computers that I missed from the 80s.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1h
I am overwhelmed by everything now. It's so complex and convoluted, and even people trying to help leave things out that they assume you know.
To me computing is now plugging small black rectangles that look all exactly alike into another larger black rectangle that all look the same to get indistinguishable results for things I don't even need or want.
And when I don't want it it gets shoved down my throat anyway.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -5 pts · 1d
Such a bottom.
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 1d
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 1d
I've liked Apple since the early 80's, Apple was great under both Steve and Tim and I'm sure Ill continue to like it under John.
Reumacosimo@feddit.it · -10 pts · 1d
Anche most likely the device you are using right now as well