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The author of this schmooze piece is clearly on drugs.

This iOS update is an abortion, from the Jony-Ives minimalist UI for 2-year-olds that now wastes all kinds of screen space, the elimination of features on down to the baffling requirement to keep signing in to the app with my iCloud password for no reason at all. Oh, and the overall sluggishness that wasn’t present before.

Take a look at the reviews and comments on the Evernote forums as well as in the iTunes App Store. I’m not talking out my a$$.

I was so angry at being served this platter of b.s. (I’ve been a paid subscriber from the beginning) that along with the logs they requested I send them, I promised to quit the service completely and move elsewhere. (For the record, I think OneNote is beyond sucky, so I don’t know what else I’d use. The Apple Notes app is far from up to snuff as well.) Evernote extended my Premium subscription for free for three months. If they don’t have this all settled at the end of that time, I’m gone.

I don’t know why modern software companies don’t do thorough QA and field testing any more, and I’m not going to support their lunacy with my money. They’re charging enough to to have a superb software development teams. Would you buy a car that had this many issues? Their customers are not supposed to be the beta testers unless they signed up to be beta testers. (Ahem, Apple?)

They say they are going to quash all these bugs “in the next release,” but there’s no excuse for this dumpster fire. The Web Clipper extension malfunctions, the macOS current app release is buggy, and now they’ve ruined the iOS app. Their apps used to work smooth as glass, for the most part, so I’m baffled by this gargantuan series of missteps.

BOOOOOOO! Two big thumbs down.

kimberly said:

mobird said:

What does it take to invoke Siri to listen in on a complete conversation as it is suggested? Most people know that it is a stretch to get Siri to do the most basic task asked of it.

 

I returned my first HomePod back to Apple for crummy sound (audiophile, my ass) and for the sheer idiocy of Siri on the device. "Hey, Siri, play 'Jump' by Van Halen." Siri: "OK. Here's "---------" by an artist I've never heard of. Couldn't get it to pause/stop if music was turned up. Turned itself on in the middle of the night several times and began playing music. I live alone, the HomePod was far away in a living room corner, my cat doesn't know how to say "Hey, Siri," and there was no intruder. (I was ready; I had my pistol out). Siri in general needs more than a little work. On the HomePod, Siri was the kid who couldn't get past coloring in the lines in kindergarten. So I'm not surprised at what it "accidentally" slurps up; it needs all the help it can get. Stop acting SO SHOCKED, everyone.

No more HomePod for me, thanks just the same. I wasn't impressed with its sound or alleged capabilities. I'm going back to plain ole stereo/mini-stereo for apartment sound. And I've got other ways to get the weather.

I've followed this, but not closely enough to know if this does anything about spam text messages, especially group spam/phishing texts. After years of not being troubled with this, I've started getting one of these every few weeks, always from a "girl in [my] neighborhood" looking for hookups, by implication. Each time I've gotten one of these messages, I suspect the originating number is spoofed, and there's always a different URL embedded in the message. No, I don't click it and I add every phone number on the list to Verizon's block list.

It's tedious and it's gotten old already. Plus, I'm careful giving out my phone number to websites, so I'm not sure how my number even got onto this spammer database.

The disappeared iTunes library happened to me twice, so I'm a believer. I no longer use iTunes as my primary media manager. I downloaded the update today and just tried it to see what's changed, just for chuckles. The very first thing I noticed, besides the pervasive ghostly white everywhere (Sir Jony loves pale, ghostly tints to death) is that every single star rating I had on items is gone. Every. Single. One.

If this is progress and improvement, Apple needs some new leadership from Mr. Cook on down. What has happened to Apple software? It gets stupider and stupider.

Re: button madness

I've noted a sorta-similar issue in the last few versions of Safari for Mojave. If you have Enable Content Blockers checked for a given website (the Safari default), and you've filled in info fields to register for a site, the submit/enter/continue button often won't work—you have to disable the Content Blockers setting on the website just to submit your info. I hope this bug gets addressed in a minor, end-of-the-line Mojave update (which supposedly has already happened) as well as in Catalina.

Looking forward to that first live video published by Daesh! #unintendedconsequences

@magman1979, et al

Isn't it clear that people with serious music libraries and music server needs need to shun iTunes? I already have after the whole deleted-music-library debacle several iterations of iTunes ago. (I didn't believe it possible until it happened to me. And yes, I'm still pissed. Once burned, twice shy.)

I haven't settled on a final product yet, but I'm auditioning JRiver and other media management applications. I don't use iTunes any more other than syncing my iDevices, app and software updates, and some Internet radio streaming, which I can usually do from a browser, anyway. Seems like there are many alternatives to most of what iTunes offers unless you're just lazily determined to feed Apple's gluttonous revenue cycles and increasingly inept, incomprehensible software and UI design trends.

I'd love some people to stand up at the next Developers Conference and yell "bullshit" if the Big Macs have the audacity to tout another window-dressing release of iTunes. I agree with someone's comment of "dynamite." That would be a good startover point.