matrix077

peterhart said:

matrix077 said:

peterhart said:

I always update on release day and thus far, I haven’t encountered any issues. I love the simplified way AirDrop now works with contacts, I haven’t seen the No Sender Mail issue’s, and the new swipe keyboard is pretty cool and comparable to GBoard I used by Google. I’m pretty happy with iOS 13, especially Night Mode. 

I haven't either. This time I updated early simply because of Apple Arcade. Without it I might wait.

And yes, swipe keyboard is great, but how do you type double letters, like le'tt'ers?

What I do when typing, as I’ve used GBoard for a long time now, is slightly hold that letter for a split second longer and it registers what I was aiming for. I used to have Apple’s predictive spelling/suggestions turned off, but it was helpful on GBoard so I turned it back on now using Apple’s keyboard. I’d been waiting to ditch Google’s for a while now. 

ElCapitan said:

matrix077 said:

Coincidentally I just deleted 25 or so adware from my MBA by the help of malwarebytes.com. It has never run cooler or quieter than now.

To answer Lorin Schultz above, just don’t install suspect apps, apps that the process of installation looks suspicious. And don’t install Safari extension that you’re not sure of. If possible get the apps from Mac App Store as much as possible. 

How on earth did you manage to get 25 or so malware on your Mac? – Or was it just something Malwarebytes reported, so it could sell you the Premium version? 

mcdave said:

Alger said:

tommikele said:

JWSC said:

That’s it China.  Just keep going.  Just keep giving Apple more reasons to diversify manufacturing out of your country.  The sooner, the better.  And good riddance.

The Chinese are the ones who are in a position to say good riddance to Apple and not the other way around as you claim.

You don't know too much about business, do you?

Apple is the smartest, most valuable company on Earth.  China has a ruthless, repressive, totalitarian, imperial government and their society has no regard for pluralism or diversity in any political or cultural aspect of its society.  Its leaders are utterly unaccountable to the people they supposedly serve.  Chinese "business" is all about the Communist Party in corrupt sweetheart deals with ruthless, robber-baron, nepotistic capitalists.  Chinese despise foreigners at home and treat hosts in other countries like garbage. I'd gladly pay a couple dollars more for a phone than have any piece of it made in China.

Apple users used to be able to smell propaganda but maybe not any more. The China you’re describing isn’t the one my sister has lived in for the last 10 years.
Maybe you should ask yourself why we’re demonising a country/ideology - just like we did before we started our Islamic holocaust.

mocseg said:

Jobs was the great god of extreme egoism and we can see now how lost and miserable he really was.

A man who was grabbing and grabbing, even parking spaces for disabled drivers, often wanted two and suddenly turned with all his billions into the grave. And his fans have to make up his good deeds and false last words.

As believers fall away and new generations grow, they will put it in the right place - it will become the worst possible example, while perhaps civilization will be gone anyway, because there is no society that can survive such egoism, let alone glorify it.

viclauyyc said:

Stupid things like this is the reason why dumb people make fun of Mac and iOS. 

genovelle said:

Interesting. China huh? Nothing about the massive on going widespread Russian breach that had been going on for 9 months undetected. Could it be that they are being directed to focus on China while ignoring all other threats. Even as the attack is happening in real time, they are focusing on China. No one else finds that to be odd?

GeorgeBMac said:

For all those defending the "Everything Glued together & soldered together" assembly of the MacBooks by saying "Nobody ever upgraded a computer", Andrew just called bull!

His biggest (only?) complaint about his M1 MacBook Air is that it can't meet his needs because it is frozen in time with what it came with when he bought it -- versus his MacPro which grew and developed with enhancements as his needs, wants and requirements grew.

Likewise, my 9 year old i7 Thinkpad runs perfectly well and meets all of my needs -- because it's been upgraded to a 500Gb SSD, 16Gb Ram and an internal harddrive used for ongoing, real time backups.  Without those cheap and very simple to install (5 minutes or less) upgrades the machine would have been scrap

maciekskontakt said:

dk49 said:

mattinoz said:

Great fairly predictable what will be interesting is what direction M2 goes?

Eating the top Intels and AMDs for lunch! 

Dream on. AMD has just came out with new processor and line of small low power computers. Apple should have really consider AMD before proprietary CPU. We know how fairytale of G3 and G4 ended 15 years ago. I still have QuickSilver home for nostalgia collectible.

avon b7 said:

zoetmb said:

slurpy said:

Awesome move by Apple. This SHOULD shut up most of the complaints, but of course it won't. 

It's not like Apple is selling $500 laptops.   There's two ways to look at this:  

The first is that if someone is buying a laptop that starts at $2400, they should't be complaining about having to buy some adapters, even if they're overpriced and that if you're a pro, technology advances and the investment is the price of doing business.  

The other way to look at it is that if someone is spending between $2400 and $4300 (for the MBP with all options except for application software and AppleCare), Apple shouldn't have cheaped out and they should have provided 2 to 4 adapters in the box of the customer's choosing.   The price of four adapters/cables is as much as a cheap PC.   

And then my cost of ownership goes up because I can't replace the battery, expand memory or replace the SSD myself.   Or, if I Iive with a 256GB SSD, I've got to get a ton of external storage for pro-level photos and video and live with the hassle of not having every file with me when I'm out of the home/office.  

This is another example of Apple labeling something "pro" and then not understanding the workflow of their pro customers.   They did that with FinalCutPro and they did it when they moved away from the tower configuration of the MacPro.  

Every time Apple switches ports, they tell the market how their new choices are the greatest and how they want both manufacturers and consumers to commit to that port.  Then after a few years, they change their minds and they move on to something else.   Did they really need to drop Mag-safe?  What about all the people who bought extra power supplies to keep at home/office, etc.?   HDMI is ubiquitous on TVs and receivers and the cables have become inexpensive, but now I've got to buy an adapter that costs ten times what the cable cost?

What was Apple's rationale for going solely to USB-C?   Was it because they truly think this port is the future and that the accessory market will fully move to that port and that it provides technological advantages?   Or was it really because of Ive's anal-obsessiveness over thinness and not wanting to look at different sized/shaped ports on the side of the machine?   What drives me crazy is that Apple wants the machine to have this superior industrial design so that it looks great in photos and in ads, but they have no problem with users having to stick a bunch of dongles and adapters on the thing.   It's the same with the iPhone and the obsession with thinness, but then we have to put it in a case because it can't survive a fall.   So few are really seeing and feeling the thinness anyway.  Sometimes I think people at Apple don't actually use the products they produce in the real world. 

So, IMO, criticism is warranted.   If Apple wants my money, they're going to have to do a bit better.   I hate using PCs at work, but I'm not spending $4K to $5K on my next computer and I don't want to feel like I have less than what I have today.  So as much as I hate Windows, my next laptop might actually be a Windows machine.  And I've been an Apple customer for 35 years. 

I fully agree with this assessment. Ive needs some kind of therapy. This obsession with thinness and lightness has led to too many compromises. Prices went up with retina Macs and up again with these models. They are now literally out of the reach of many and severely compromised by being non-upgradeable and ultra expensive to repair. Currency fluctuations have just worsened an already bad situation. And let's not forget the foolish who never backup. If one of these models goes belly up it will be a lot of hassle getting the data out of the machine.

The iPhone 6 and 7 have got to be the most slippery phones I've ever held. That's bad design. it doesn't matter how good it looks on the ads. If you absolutely need a case just to be able to hold the phone safely, something is wrong. I've never understood the hideous white dongles either. Completely overstated and so tacky. Good for an iBook but nothing else.

I haven't had a chance to use the new keyboard but I think I won't like it. Was it necessary? Nope, but we got it because someone just had to shave off a couple of mm from somewhere.

The future? I already see it. One slab of glass sitting over the body of the laptop. No physical keys of any kind. Just a touchscreen with force touch and 'virtual' trackpad included.