rogifan_old

Hmmm...I wonder how this will play with the general public. Most people that don't know anything about the specifics will just see chyron's like the one below and think Apple is on the side of terrorists. Apple better have someone ready to go on TV defending this if necessary.

Man is the media/Wall Street making way too big a deal over this rumored 4 iPhone. Earth to media: Apple sells a 4" phone right now. Updating it with newer specs is not a big deal.

wigby said:

isilver said:

So Walt and everyone else who complains about the problems wth Mac software these days is wrong, thanks goodness for that, i thought it was Apple doing something less than perfectly.

"Federighi goes on to say that niche problems are quickly amplified as devices like iPhone become an integral part of users' daily lives."

Of course they are, because they're not really niche problems anymore because so many users experience the same problems, the same little buggy problems affects millions of users. The response is straight out of the Steve Ballmer playbook.

Would an apology to really matter? They are doing the best they can do considering their current focus.

Maybe not an apology but at least acknowledging people's concerns. Don't use the large user base as an excuse (if Jobs/Cook didn't set the company up to be able to scale well that's a problem) and don't dismiss complaints as people stuck in their ways not receptive to change. I'm sure there's some of that. But there are also people who have legitimate issues/annoyances. One that I have is I'll delete emails and 5 seconds later they'll reappear, sometimes as unread other times as read. Just today I had one email that I deleted 5 different times, it just kept coming back. Little annoyances like that can add up, especially if there's a lot of them, and that's not something Apple's going to see on a diagnostics or crash report and probably won't show up in a radar.

thewhitefalcon said:

rogifan_old said:

I like Craig. And I like the fact that when he was asked about radars he admitted external communion isn't as good as it could be. I wish Gruber would have pushed Cue a bit more on iTunes. I didn't get the sense he really gets how awful and bloated it is. Also there's no way Cue set up a new TV like a customer would because if he had he would have said its not shipping until it has remote app and/or BT keyboard support.

I dont think bloated is the right term to use with iTunes. I think the software just has a horrible UI, which people are misconstruing as bloat. 

I still call it bloat. Tries to do too much. The other thing I don't like is the music app on iOS devices has basically become an Music app. What about people that aren't interested in subscribing to Music?  One shouldn't have to going to settings to turn it off. I think Music should have been a separate app available on the App Store that could be deleted. Obviously Apple thinks the only way it can get a large number of Music subscribers is to turn the default (and non-deletable) music app into an Music app.

ireland said:

What I'd like to see from Apple is a serious slowdown of new software features (with one or two useful features add per year added to each platform, a clean up across the board on all platforms in terms of optimisations and bug fixes, and simplification of Watch OS with a more cohesive interaction model, a 4.2" iPhone 6s mini (not a budget 4" phone). And a culling of all non-Retina products and some iPad models and a minimum of 256GB for notebooks across the board with a 32 GB minimum for all iOS devices.

I use my Watch every day and have no issues with it. Sure Apple can do more with regards to more intelligent notifications and more/better watch faces but I have no issues using the Watch interface. None. Zero. Dead simple to me.