firelock

sflocal said:

#firstworldproblems

This is the part where I say that I am embarrassed to be a part of modern society where people whine and complain that they can't get their computers updated or working for a few hours, and those that write articles claiming it to be a bigger deal than it really is.  People NEVER say anything about the countless days, weeks, or years that something's been working well.  It's only that ONE day, or hours that the twitterverse gets their undies in a wedgie.  It's embarrassing really and those that think the world is falling need to take a step back and contemplate what's really important.  

I guess it's me being born before modern technology took over.  I know tech's not perfect and things go wrong, but damn... some people.

Disclaimer:  After all the complaining yesterday, I decided to upgrade my 2017 MBP that I rarely use just to see how bad it was.  I was fully prepared to experience the same problems as others complained about.  My MBP downloaded BigSur and upgraded it all in under and hour.  I was shocked.  I expected to leave it on the entire day/night while I do my other work.  On top of that, after a few hours of using it - so far - I've had zero issues with my apps, and was pleasantly surprised that my crucial apps (Java-based) worked perfectly.

Go figure.

The "opinion piece"?  Whatever.  People place way too high a value on these kind of articles.  Most folks have the attention-span of a gnat.  Today most will have forgotten about it.  By the weekend... completely forgotten about and now looking forward to their next 15-minute fix.  

Apple will take this event as something they need to work out.  It never ends, and it will happen again.  Nothing is perfect, but funny how some expect that from others knowing what they do could certainly be put under scrutiny as well.  Get over it.

The complaint is not that people couldn't download Big Sur, though that was the case, but that Apple (if this analysis is correct) managed to nuke a lot of Macs when the launched it. My entire department's Mac's were essentially bricked for about an hour and a half and none of us were trying to download the update. Applications would either not launch or launched and worked so slowly as to be unusable. I have two MacBook Pro's and they both became unresponsive at the same instant.

I will say that neither AI's news article from yesterday nor the opinion piece issued today adequately explain what happened, what caused it, how many people were affected, and why people are upset. That is why the comments here are hard to interpret.

I’m always amazed at all of the “I’m unimpressed” comments that come every year when Apple updates the iPhone, as if they expect the world to be reinvented overnight on an annual basis. Except for the original iPhone each iteration of the iPhone has arguably been incremental. That doesn’t mean that the phone isn’t worthy. I just bought the iPhone 12 Pro, which I plan on keeping 3-4 years just like I did my last phone. I don’t buy a new car, refrigerator, or TV every year either. Yet somehow the cars, appliances, and TVs that I own today are many times better than the ones I owned many years ago. Same with this phone. If you are ready to buy a new phone, then it is fantastic. If you are happy with the one you own, then wait a few years.

Just about all of my Apple subscriptions have renewed in the last few weeks. I wonder if I’m going to get prorated for the time remaining on them when I switch?

fastasleep said:

Beats said:

I know everyone wants to poke fun but there has to be some talent here Apple can pick up?

LOL who? Whitman herself even said she wasn't a big fan of "entertainment", whatever that means. Katzenberg modeled the whole thing after his own ridiculous multi-lunch meeting schedule that isn't reflective of any normal person. What evidence do you have that there's anyone in this doomed company worth picking up out of the wreckage?

And the content creators are not tied to the company, either. And they only have two-year exclusivity on what they did produce.

It’s hard not to have schadenfreude about this as it was very much a “emperor’s new suit” situation. The company’s investors were duped by a self-delusional egomaniac and almost anyone with any industry savvy knew this venture would fail hard. They are just lucky that they launched this year so that they could blame their failure on the pandemic when in reality it was doomed from the start.