I remember last year when Google/Facebook all were spewing that phone hardware isn't that important. Its the software. LOL. Duh, a software company would say its software is most important. WRONG BITCH.
Hardware is equally as important as software. They both need to work together.
There is so many years left for hardware innovation. It will never end.
Apple will keep shriking the bezel for the rest of the decade. AR will be huge and will require more and more horsepower from the CPU. In the next decade we will be seeing foldable screens on iPhones.
Don't believe the lies of Google and FAcebook that say hardware don't matter.
What's funny, is that diehard Android fans seem to think that software isn't important either! One notorious, anti-apple poster on several tech forums I frequent insists that fragmentation of Android is a myth, that there are no consequences whatsoever to most of the Android install base NOT being on the latest version of Android.
He says it's not an issue, just something made up by Apple fans, because Google has worked it, "by design", so that api's and innovations can all somehow be addressed through the store and Google Play services. He insists that an Android app on any Android phone running ___ version, four versions back, is just the same as running the app on a newer, better phone running latest Android version.
Sounds to me like a recipe for Lowest Common Denominator. Sounds like something Google HAD to deal with because OEMs and Carriers weren't helping the OS update situation. Sounds like Android users aren't expecting Google to come out with ANY significant updates to APIs or new APIs (like AR, for example).
So, if neither hardware nor software are important to Android users, I wonder what is important? Oh yeah, replacing the battery and SD cards. ;P
Yesterday I tried to install a Pages upgrade on a MBP.
The Mac App Store told me it was available. I could hit the button to download it but then got smacked by the 'this application cannot run on this OS' (Yosemite). I was told that I would have to upgrade the entire OS (to El Capitan) if I wanted to install the latest Pages.
Is Yosemite really that old? It hasn't reached three years yet.
Do I have no right to mention this just because the software is 'free'? That is very much open to debate.
The user doesn't actually want to update for varying reasons (all of which I understand) and will stay on Yosemite for a while longer and will therefore use the version of Pages currently installed on the machine. That is fragmentation.
iTunes. Bloatware defined. I remember trying to add an ebook to my iPad (which had plenty of space on it), only for iTunes to insist on lumbering through around seven individual steps (only one of which was even relevant) to copy a 200K file over.
It borked (as many users had found before me) and that mysterious place called 'other' was supposedly taking up all the capacity on the device. iTunes will stubbornly refuse to tell you what that chunk is actually comprised of. Incredible but true. It's just sat there sucking the usefulness out of the device and steadfastly leaving the user in the dark?
There are about 10,000 different tricks to try when trying to resolve these issues. They go from wiping the device and restoring from a backup (what? To transfer a tiny file?) through to simply upgrading to the latest versions of software. That last one was a catch 22 as upgrading the iOS version to the latest (at the time) would have killed compatibility with the OSX version I was running. Fragmentation again.
I also had my reasons for not upgrading the OSX I was using. Of course Apple made no attempt to marry the system configuration and warn me that upgrading iOS would break compatibility with the system the device was syncing to. It was happy to go ahead and install. Then the problem would be mine as the only way out of jail would be to upgrade the base OS (if that were even possible).
As a result I live in a fragmented Apple world because I don't jump when I'm told to jump. If things are working I leave them be because Apple has burnt my fingers over and over again. So much often changes in major OS updates (not even counting bugs, compatibility etc) that users are often reluctant to jump every single year in the name of 'progress'.
I'm sure I'm not alone.
Would it be correct to say that Microsoft supports Mac Office better than Apple supports Pages, Numbers etc.
Oh yeah, I forgot it's free. No complaints accepted. LOL.
First stop for AI at Apple should be something totally boring: support. Using it to eliminate the needless headaches involved in upgrades and compatibility.
The Mac App Store should not even be offering Pages upgrades if the system can't run the upgrade. It definitely shouldn't be offering me the option to physically download it and then baulk.
iTunes shouldn't be lumbering through unsolicited options to copy a 200K file and should let users peek inside that 'other' block.
iDevices shouldn't be offering to install upgrades that would leave the host iTunes unable to sync with them.
It is incredibly difficult to make AI handle these issues seamlessly in a natural language manner so that users can benefit from them and they are also 'boring' so it is unlikely Apple will use it to make things much better. Far better to show off AI with something sexy instead.
Off topic much! Funny how you always claim to be "unbiased" in regards to Apple, but this clearly proves otherwise.
I remember last year when Google/Facebook all were spewing that phone hardware isn't that important. Its the software. LOL. Duh, a software company would say its software is most important. WRONG BITCH.
Hardware is equally as important as software. They both need to work together.
There is so many years left for hardware innovation. It will never end.
Apple will keep shriking the bezel for the rest of the decade. AR will be huge and will require more and more horsepower from the CPU. In the next decade we will be seeing foldable screens on iPhones.
Don't believe the lies of Google and FAcebook that say hardware don't matter.
What's funny, is that diehard Android fans seem to think that software isn't important either! One notorious, anti-apple poster on several tech forums I frequent insists that fragmentation of Android is a myth, that there are no consequences whatsoever to most of the Android install base NOT being on the latest version of Android.
He says it's not an issue, just something made up by Apple fans, because Google has worked it, "by design", so that api's and innovations can all somehow be addressed through the store and Google Play services. He insists that an Android app on any Android phone running ___ version, four versions back, is just the same as running the app on a newer, better phone running latest Android version.
Sounds to me like a recipe for Lowest Common Denominator. Sounds like something Google HAD to deal with because OEMs and Carriers weren't helping the OS update situation. Sounds like Android users aren't expecting Google to come out with ANY significant updates to APIs or new APIs (like AR, for example).
So, if neither hardware nor software are important to Android users, I wonder what is important? Oh yeah, replacing the battery and SD cards. ;P
Yesterday I tried to install a Pages upgrade on a MBP.
The Mac App Store told me it was available. I could hit the button to download it but then got smacked by the 'this application cannot run on this OS' (Yosemite). I was told that I would have to upgrade the entire OS (to El Capitan) if I wanted to install the latest Pages.
Is Yosemite really that old? It hasn't reached three years yet.
Do I have no right to mention this just because the software is 'free'? That is very much open to debate.
The user doesn't actually want to update for varying reasons (all of which I understand) and will stay on Yosemite for a while longer and will therefore use the version of Pages currently installed on the machine. That is fragmentation.
iTunes. Bloatware defined. I remember trying to add an ebook to my iPad (which had plenty of space on it), only for iTunes to insist on lumbering through around seven individual steps (only one of which was even relevant) to copy a 200K file over.
It borked (as many users had found before me) and that mysterious place called 'other' was supposedly taking up all the capacity on the device. iTunes will stubbornly refuse to tell you what that chunk is actually comprised of. Incredible but true. It's just sat there sucking the usefulness out of the device and steadfastly leaving the user in the dark?
There are about 10,000 different tricks to try when trying to resolve these issues. They go from wiping the device and restoring from a backup (what? To transfer a tiny file?) through to simply upgrading to the latest versions of software. That last one was a catch 22 as upgrading the iOS version to the latest (at the time) would have killed compatibility with the OSX version I was running. Fragmentation again.
I also had my reasons for not upgrading the OSX I was using. Of course Apple made no attempt to marry the system configuration and warn me that upgrading iOS would break compatibility with the system the device was syncing to. It was happy to go ahead and install. Then the problem would be mine as the only way out of jail would be to upgrade the base OS (if that were even possible).
As a result I live in a fragmented Apple world because I don't jump when I'm told to jump. If things are working I leave them be because Apple has burnt my fingers over and over again. So much often changes in major OS updates (not even counting bugs, compatibility etc) that users are often reluctant to jump every single year in the name of 'progress'.
I'm sure I'm not alone.
Would it be correct to say that Microsoft supports Mac Office better than Apple supports Pages, Numbers etc.
Oh yeah, I forgot it's free. No complaints accepted. LOL.
First stop for AI at Apple should be something totally boring: support. Using it to eliminate the needless headaches involved in upgrades and compatibility.
The Mac App Store should not even be offering Pages upgrades if the system can't run the upgrade. It definitely shouldn't be offering me the option to physically download it and then baulk.
iTunes shouldn't be lumbering through unsolicited options to copy a 200K file and should let users peek inside that 'other' block.
iDevices shouldn't be offering to install upgrades that would leave the host iTunes unable to sync with them.
It is incredibly difficult to make AI handle these issues seamlessly in a natural language manner so that users can benefit from them and they are also 'boring' so it is unlikely Apple will use it to make things much better. Far better to show off AI with something sexy instead.
Off topic much! Funny how you always claim to be "unbiased" in regards to Apple, but this clearly proves otherwise.
Just call me demanding on the stuff that should work out the gate but doesn't. I am demanding on everything like that. Even Android. The big difference is that I try to take into account the price I pay for the device and the resources available to the company. I know Apple far, far better than any other software provider I use.
I have given the relevant details of two cases that led to fragmentation which is what I was responding to.
These cases are real examples from personal experience. There is no bias, though.
I remember last year when Google/Facebook all were spewing that phone hardware isn't that important. Its the software. LOL. Duh, a software company would say its software is most important. WRONG BITCH.
Hardware is equally as important as software. They both need to work together.
There is so many years left for hardware innovation. It will never end.
Apple will keep shriking the bezel for the rest of the decade. AR will be huge and will require more and more horsepower from the CPU. In the next decade we will be seeing foldable screens on iPhones.
Don't believe the lies of Google and FAcebook that say hardware don't matter.
What's funny, is that diehard Android fans seem to think that software isn't important either! One notorious, anti-apple poster on several tech forums I frequent insists that fragmentation of Android is a myth, that there are no consequences whatsoever to most of the Android install base NOT being on the latest version of Android.
He says it's not an issue, just something made up by Apple fans, because Google has worked it, "by design", so that api's and innovations can all somehow be addressed through the store and Google Play services. He insists that an Android app on any Android phone running ___ version, four versions back, is just the same as running the app on a newer, better phone running latest Android version.
Sounds to me like a recipe for Lowest Common Denominator. Sounds like something Google HAD to deal with because OEMs and Carriers weren't helping the OS update situation. Sounds like Android users aren't expecting Google to come out with ANY significant updates to APIs or new APIs (like AR, for example).
So, if neither hardware nor software are important to Android users, I wonder what is important? Oh yeah, replacing the battery and SD cards. ;P
Yesterday I tried to install a Pages upgrade on a MBP.
The Mac App Store told me it was available. I could hit the button to download it but then got smacked by the 'this application cannot run on this OS' (Yosemite). I was told that I would have to upgrade the entire OS (to El Capitan) if I wanted to install the latest Pages.
Is Yosemite really that old? It hasn't reached three years yet.
Do I have no right to mention this just because the software is 'free'? That is very much open to debate.
The user doesn't actually want to update for varying reasons (all of which I understand) and will stay on Yosemite for a while longer and will therefore use the version of Pages currently installed on the machine. That is fragmentation.
iTunes. Bloatware defined. I remember trying to add an ebook to my iPad (which had plenty of space on it), only for iTunes to insist on lumbering through around seven individual steps (only one of which was even relevant) to copy a 200K file over.
It borked (as many users had found before me) and that mysterious place called 'other' was supposedly taking up all the capacity on the device. iTunes will stubbornly refuse to tell you what that chunk is actually comprised of. Incredible but true. It's just sat there sucking the usefulness out of the device and steadfastly leaving the user in the dark?
There are about 10,000 different tricks to try when trying to resolve these issues. They go from wiping the device and restoring from a backup (what? To transfer a tiny file?) through to simply upgrading to the latest versions of software. That last one was a catch 22 as upgrading the iOS version to the latest (at the time) would have killed compatibility with the OSX version I was running. Fragmentation again.
I also had my reasons for not upgrading the OSX I was using. Of course Apple made no attempt to marry the system configuration and warn me that upgrading iOS would break compatibility with the system the device was syncing to. It was happy to go ahead and install. Then the problem would be mine as the only way out of jail would be to upgrade the base OS (if that were even possible).
As a result I live in a fragmented Apple world because I don't jump when I'm told to jump. If things are working I leave them be because Apple has burnt my fingers over and over again. So much often changes in major OS updates (not even counting bugs, compatibility etc) that users are often reluctant to jump every single year in the name of 'progress'.
I'm sure I'm not alone.
Would it be correct to say that Microsoft supports Mac Office better than Apple supports Pages, Numbers etc.
Oh yeah, I forgot it's free. No complaints accepted. LOL.
First stop for AI at Apple should be something totally boring: support. Using it to eliminate the needless headaches involved in upgrades and compatibility.
The Mac App Store should not even be offering Pages upgrades if the system can't run the upgrade. It definitely shouldn't be offering me the option to physically download it and then baulk.
iTunes shouldn't be lumbering through unsolicited options to copy a 200K file and should let users peek inside that 'other' block.
iDevices shouldn't be offering to install upgrades that would leave the host iTunes unable to sync with them.
It is incredibly difficult to make AI handle these issues seamlessly in a natural language manner so that users can benefit from them and they are also 'boring' so it is unlikely Apple will use it to make things much better. Far better to show off AI with something sexy instead.
Off topic much! Funny how you always claim to be "unbiased" in regards to Apple, but this clearly proves otherwise.
Just call me demanding on the stuff that should work out the gate but doesn't. I am demanding on everything like that. Even Android. The big difference is that I try to take into account the price I pay for the device and the resources available to the company. I know Apple far, far better than any other software provider I use.
I have given the relevant details of two cases that led to fragmentation which is what I was responding to.
These cases are real examples from personal experience. There is no bias, though.
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I have given the relevant details of two cases that led to fragmentation which is what I was responding to.
These cases are real examples from personal experience. There is no bias, though.