sdw2001

darkvader said:

COVID proved what we all really knew anyway:  If you work in an office, your job can be done without leaving the house.  It's time to end commuting for office workers forever.

Hey, here's a thought:  Maybe it's time to mandate commuting pay.  If an employer decides a job can't be done from home, then that employer must pay the employee for time spent commuting.  That way people who really do have to be physically present get paid for ALL the time spent in work-related activities. 

mpantone said:

sdw2001 said:

I do it on my phone only.  Unless a release bricks the phone, it’s all on iCloud anyway.  I’d be hesitant on my Mac. iPad? I don’t do it but I could as it’s just a secondary device.

One can install a new macOS on a different partition/drive for testing. If it all goes to hell, you can simply reboot from the original startup disk and basically walk away.

For a phone, if there are problems, you need to spend time resetting, installing, restoring apps, etc. On production iOS releases, the window to downgrade is very short, typically a week or so. There's also the time factor to consider.

Disclaimer: I upgraded my Mac to Monterey last month (May 2022) and upgraded a few iDevices to iOS/iPadOS 15 around the same time.

Due to Apple's piss poor software QA, I have stopped upgrading to the new release in the fall. I'd rather wait 6-8 months rather than deal with "release" [sic] software that I consider to be early beta quality.

This wasn't always the case with Apple, it's a sad development within the past 5-6 years. Normally I would install the new release within a couple of days but the last time I did that was Sierra.

I completely skipped Crapalina.

Undoubtedly I will upgrade to macOS Ventura and iOS/iPodOS 16 in April or May 2023.

slurpy said:

amar99 said:

Not sure how an app store with an infinitely expanding collection of 99% useless apps is supposed to be a sign of health, but one which doesn't expand in terms of the number of apps is tagged as unhealthy or concerning. To me, a slowdown would indicate that the store's getting too crowded to support new devs, and the fact that the platform has basically stayed the same for over a decade for the most part. There might be more than 10 great apps which have paid to push themselves to the top of lists, searches, etc. But we may never know because they're buried under everything else thanks to the search options Apple has implemented.

Dear Apple: Make your search function in the appstore more powerful please! We need more curated lists of apps which are actually good, not ones which match a set of keywords or socially-promoted criteria.

Lot of bullshit in this post. "The platform basically stayed the same". Uh, no. The App Store has had massive changes and improvements over the past decade. 10 great apps? What?

There's a ton of curated app lists in the store, and lots of editorialized content. I've never, ever had an issue finding high quality apps. Also, this isn't a "sign" of anything. An App Store can't keep growing at an exponential rate, you reach a point of saturation.