volcan

 I gues that makes me part of the problem. Still using an iPhone 6 and had my battery replaced for $29. Actually they just gave me a refurbiruished phone which I plan to keep using as long as it still works. I’m not a power user, just text, email, phone, casual photography, some music, but nothing that requires the latest technology.

i also have older Macs, iPads and Apple Watch. Haven’t spent a dime on Apple hardware in around four years or more.

RSGinSF said:

A nightmare is waking up to your house on fire. A nightmare is having a crazy person point a gun at you. A nightmare is a nuclear bomb detonating in the middle of your city. It is NOT having a little bit of trouble buying a computer cable. C'mon, guys/gals.

Oh jeez! The word nightmare as a figure of speech is very common usage -- meaning a pain in the ass, to use another figure of speech. Your examples are not nightmares if you want to get all technical about it. A nightmare means you would have to be asleep and dreaming about those scary events.

cropr said:

ajl said:

frantisek said:

I wonder about that multilingual environment. I do use iPhone like that and it is plain horrible experience. Mainly switching two languages, occasionally up to six. Even two languages are nightmare as apps or iOS, no idea where is problem, do not remember what language was used in each conversation or chat so I constantly switching keyboard or typing or dictating with wrong one. In this particular case I can not call iPhone smartphone until it will remember language on conversation/contact base.

? Mine does.

I am living in Belgium with 3 official languages (Dutch, French and German) and with a a very prominent role for English (NATO and EU headquarters are here).  It is not uncommon to have sentences  or even words with a mix of languages.  iOS and macOS have very limited support for multilingual environments.  And I mean multilingual in the sense of simultaneously supporting multiple languages.   

Same issue here in Southern California. Mix between Spanish and English. Especially frustrating with Siri when your system language is English, she has no understanding of Spanish words which are everywhere around here.

I get two bars of signal at my house. How much faster is two bars of 5G vs two bars of 4G?

TutTut said:

There are too many Apple haters in Sweden. Add to those the group of people who don't accept any change at all.
1800 responses is a rather small number, but the problem is that very few had voiced any opposing view.

Then, after the September election, the new conservative majority chose to go against Apple.

Not sure what the issues were but I checked some mobile device stats online and Apple is more than twice as popular as Samsung in Sweden, and as expected both are way above any other manufacturer. Furthermore, I also did a query for images of modern architecture in Stockholm and there are literally dozens of images of super radical architecture in Stockholm. To say it is about Apple haters and people who don't want any modern architecture doesn't seem to jibe with the statistics, but since I don't live there, online statistics is all I have to go on.

melodyof1974 said:

My only issue during the keynote when demonstrating "Quick Take" the person was holding the iPhone vertically. WTF Apple, are you Samsung or Google? Turn iPhone to landscape for video!!!!!!

I find it strange that they introduced the new feature as Quick Take. Did they forget that Apple already had a product called QuickTake from 1994?

macplusplus said:

If your server side is well built you don’t even need Javascript. I know sites which register transactions without using a single line of JS code.

it is difficult to do AJAX remote SQL queries without Javascript. Having to refresh the entire page is way old school. I just don't like the canned JS frameworks because they have purposely obfuscated everything. For many years I always wrote my own JS from scratch but the times they are a changing and to remain relevant you need stay up to speed with coding  trends which means frameworks. Loading lots of remote libraries is a pain in the ass when you only need one particular function.

StrangeDays said:

Really struggling to understand your resistance to the idea, other than the fact that you're lucky enough to always have new cars. 

I really don't have any resistance to the idea. I just question how significant the market is for this. As for my situation, my car, the company pays for so I always have a nice luxury car when I take visiting executives out to lunch or dinner. The other vehicle, I pay for, but I want a nice, safe, reliable luxury vehicle for the wife. It is just another monthly expense that I can afford. With luxury cars you don't want to be out of warranty because repairing them will cost you an arm and a leg, which is why I lease them and turn them in after 3 years. And it is not really luck either. I put in a lot of studies and hard work to get where I am.

patchythepirate said

Also, I was under the impression that NFC readers largely are able to utilize Apple Pay by default, even without the merchant being aware, so that it needs to be deliberately shut off (I think Apple Pay even worked at CVS before they deliberately shut it down, IIRC); it seems that a lot of the back end work has been done.

Yeah, perhaps. The same thing was true at Home Depot. I'm thinking that once the bean counters got the first bill with Apple's additional surcharge they said screw this and shut it down.

@cdarlington1 

Your entire post sounds like complete BS to me.