bobolicious

dewme said:

I've unfortunately come around to realizing that there is a either a festering rot spreading inside Apple's current software process or they've outgrown their ability to properly support their customer base.

chasm said:

Bobolicious is a very bad troll noted for being wrong about pretty much everything (he's not even licious!).

He **conveniently** skipped over the fact that most of what is stored in iCloud (apart from some general metadata) is **encrypted to the point that even Apple can't read it,** but of course that would disturb his tinfoil hat so of course he didn't mention it.

But thanks for the reminder to put trolls and/or fools on my ignore list.

Instead of an easy 3rd party default S/MIME security certificate email offerings we get emoji, memoji and text message effects that cripple basic functionality, and 'onboard' storage that is difficult or impossible to anonymize or upgrade cost effectively...

Why does remote delete of iPhone data require 'find my iPhone' location tracking? Is this Apple's latent 'cost' to customers for data delete capability by design ?

Even the move away from iTunes central management of apps means extra download bandwidth and apple tracking download data of every app on every device. Apple 1, customers 0?

Is this increasingly the best target for 'the big hack' or a digital trojan horse, ironically vs the web designed in concept for de-concentration of single connection dependence and thus increased security..?

How about a server app with 'mycloud' in house functionality (distributed cloud) without ties to Apple's multinational foreign US 'Patriot Act' jurisdiction servers...?

This was one of the things that made Apple so appealing to me & perhaps 'for the rest of us'...

My wishlist upgrades would have been simple - USB3 to speed non-network recovery & remote drive access along with easy (secure) user replacement of the internal drive...

What is Apple thinking winding down this most elegant and effective hardware...?

StrangeDays said:

bobolicious said:

Apple computers in my most recent experience no longer 'just work' and the only mac I'd consider now is an iMac I can still upgrade or replace consumables such as storage...

Is annual macOS churn for new hardware as brutal as Macworld was for product pipelines, eventually ended by SJ recognizing it was a big (just one of many) 'bag of hurt'...?

Even the most elemental mouse was 'upgraded' to 'onboard' proprietary batteries and the thing can't be used while it is being charged. Perhaps someone can explain how this (design or logic) change even remotely benefits customers...?

The loss of headphone jack on iPhone now begs an octopus of adapter dongle mess to use my 'better than apple' wired headphones and wall adapter.

Have macs gotten faster? Yes remarkably so (especially graphics) and yet we have a mini that now only has integrated graphics - try the eGPU reviews to understand why this is a non-starter.

We've lost so many basic useful features (target display, flex vesa mount for iMac, among others) - less is not more for this lifetime business user and regrettably increasingly reticent customer...

So much ignorance, so little time...

- Figure it out already: normals don't care about upgrading storage. I'm even a techie, have built countless machines, and I have zero interest in upgrading storage on any iMac. It's not worth the hassle, and DIY tinkering isn't why I bought a Mac. Few do, which is why no one cares about this issue. 

- I've had both the Magic Mouse w/ AAs and the new one w/ Lightning charging. The new one is way, way better. Why? Because I already have a Lightning charing cable coming out of my Mac to charge my iPhone, or my iPad, or my AirPods, or my Magic Keyboard, or my TouchPad. Add now my Mouse. It's a no-brainer. 

- Unlike you, I have and use the Mouse, and know first-hand that the OCD complaint by web commenters is meaningless. At no point would I ever, or do I need to, use the Mouse while charging it. Why? Because it now gets about a month of use. Afterward my Mac pushes a notification reminding me to charge it when I'm done for the day. And if I still managed to ignore that, I plug it in for a minute, as I pee or make a coffee or get water, and guess what? All day battery again. Oops. Are you actually saying if you somehow managed to not charge for a month, and ignored the warning, that you don't have 60 seconds to go pee?

- The iPhone has a headphone jack. A nice digital one. The loss of the legacy analog one means dick to 99% of the population, because most people use the headphones that come in the box. Additionally, I use bluetooth headphones (AirPods) which are amazingly awesome. At no point have I ever need any nonsense about dongles. Use the fucking adapter if you're so in love with your mini-phono headphones, nobody's stopping ya.

You dudes try so hard. Please your hearts.