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mdriftmeyer said:

wizard69 said:

Interesting monitor but charging $1000 extra for a stand is a real dick move on Apples part.   Sadly it looks like the marketing crew at Apple still hasn’t come to terms with the reality of the business world outside of their little bit of California.  

It comes with a stand. This is the upgrade option.

No Apple materials indicate any such included stand.

Does Apple really need you marketing this thing for them?

I’m sick of companies that think they have to have a piece of every pie. Pick one or two things to do better than everyone else and focus.

Wall Street is a disease.

Why would I trust Apple’s privacy and security claims when iOS explicitly ignores my many correctly-chosen settings that should block downloading of iTunes content via cellular data connections? I’ve seen others complain about this, date-stamped to three years ago. I’ve only just realized it is happening to me. I’ve reported it, but Apple don’t tend to fix bugs I report (and I’ve reported many to them by now).

Yes, I’m certain I’ve set the phone settings correctly. Cellular data is switched off for all music and iTunes apps and functions *that users can control*. “System services” still shows iTunes/Music is consuming cellular data, and you cannot disable “system services” from using cellular.

Music not on my phone, but in my iTunes account, downloads and plays on my phone while the phone is wrongly selected by my car’s audio system via Bluetooth (Mazda’s car computer system is garbage; no matter how many times I set my iPhone 4 to “audio only” and my iPhone 6s to “phone only”, it randomly changes configuration and tries to play music on my iPhone 6s, which Apple then has determined MUST download music via cellular because WiFi isn’t available... I don’t want music on that phone!!!!).

No amount of user effort will stop this from happening. This is clearly faulty behavior that Apple have no interest in correcting, just as they have no interest in correcting the countless other bugs and flaws that get no media attention. AI: do your duty as “media” and call them out!

Prediction: if corporatocracy doesn’t win and throw the suit out of court, there will be a minor settlement, no wrongdoing admitted, most of the money will go to lawyers, and the carriers will add the appropriate “we may sell your location data” language to their non-negotiable contracts that no one reads nor can refuse (if they want cellular service).

EsquireCats said:

I think the difference between Apple then and Apple now (and this problem was shared by many failed companies/services) – these were all companies that weren't actually using their typical hardware and software in their day to day tasks. AKA "Eating your own dog food."

Anyone with a long enough memory will recall that the Macintosh "Macintrash" lineup from the mid 90s was vast and garbage. Crashes were frequent, the default configurations were underpowered for the software of the day and the products were far more expensive than very similar competition. Apple had relatively little control over many of these factors, and certainly having most of their IP near-duplicated by Microsoft was a huge blow to the company's value proposition. The result was inevitable.

Since then Apple has had a major re-focus on the end user experience of their devices and services - this helped the company significantly, and it's something Jobs was notoriously demanding about. While Apple doesn't sell cheap hardware, what they do sell is dollar-for-dollar competitive and they are making serious efforts to take control of their supply chain and owning the technologies which their devices depend upon. The A-series is the most obvious of this, with the expectation of switching away from Intel as performance gains continue to flow.

Even in recent history: Look at all the companies that were making smartphones (e.g. Microsoft), yet the staff kept using iPhones. Companies like these don't make smartphones anymore despite their massive budgets - if their own staff won't use them, how do they expect people to keep buying them.

But that’s just it: look at Apple’s data centers and you’ll find all PC servers running Linux. Apple are NOT eating their own dog food.

Apple executives clearly don’t use their own iOS much, because there are still, after more than six major revisions, major usability bugs in Safari (text handling in edit fields on websites is rife with autocorrect/spelling, and selection/editing bugs introduced in iOS 7) and actually entirely BROKEN features (like the multiple-item-select mode in several places such as Reminders and Safari’s website saved data/settings tool, where the multi-select feature was clearly *not even designed to operate correctly* by whoever wrote the code there, and the partially broken version in the Messages app which works somewhat but has two distinct bugs that sabotage selections on the user after marking multiple screens of messages for deletion).

These are just a SMALL sampling of the MANY tens of bugs I’ve been reporting for over SIX YEARS that have not been fixed (and the bug that inappropriately clears the selection of multiple screens of messages in the Messages app is actually new as of iOS 12.2). The only UI bugs I’ve seen addressed in all these years years are the recently broken misspelling indicators in Safari that just started working again, and the Safari tab previews. Nothing else I’ve reported in over six years has been addressed. Some of this is so egregious that it’s obvious that no one at Apple even uses them (or no one understands what the feature is supposed to do, which is worse because it shows how much expertise has been lost over the years since iOS 7’s redesign was taken out of the hands of the UI designers and handed to the print design marketing people by Jony Ive).

I could list bugs for pages worth of examples. Not using this stuff, not *knowing* it’s so broken, is the only explanation I can accept, because the other explanation (that developers are explicitly barred from fixing existing bugs unless some executive needs it done for PR reasons) is so much worse in terms of leadership.