kiltedgreen

Amazing how Apple / Tim Cook is pilloried over the Apple Car - a product that Apple never even acknowledged. It really is quite an amazing apportioning of criticism. The AI functionality that has been advertised, but not been delivered is very fair game for criticism.

But if the car, then why not blame Apple for their failures over their delayed TV set, the hot mess of the folding iPad, Macs still without a cellular connection, their flawed electric motorcycle, Apple ring, washing machine, solar powered router, 8” iPhone and all those other products Apple have never even announced. We know they were junk and were quietly shelved ….

Even before AI I’ve been surprised at the drip drip of unready features Apple announces at WWDC which then slowly appear over the year. It didn’t used to be like that. It used to be like, say, here is the new iPad “… and it’s available tomorrow”.

When you release hardware, you can’t update it so the features that you announce have to be true once it’s on sale. Software isn’t like that and can always be updated. Treating a new OS as though it’s hardware would make for a much more trustworthy and polished experience - don’t announce OS features this year if they won’t be in the release as soon as it’s out. Succumbing to the siren voiced pull to release it now, just to get something out and the rest later, is a really retrograde step in my view.

9secondkox2 said:

I guess this ok for Bluesky users. Who are dissatisfied with the BS UX. 

BS is at around 1% of the daily active users of X, so it may not be that profitable for the developer - especially  compared to the days they were able to gather Twitter customers. 

X is a massivre and much better platform and much less of an echo chamber, so it’s no wonder it is hitting a resurgence now thst its run efficiently. Community notes is a great misinformation killer as well - so much so that Facebook is copying it. Avoids some of the centralized falsehoods masquerading as fact-checking. 

But bluesky is an alternative for those who want a safe space from opposing viewpoints I guess. 

So there will be at least a few Phoenix customers. 

Be interesting to see if it gains traction. 

And there is the small point that X is owned and controlled by a Nazi, which a lot of people, including me are disgusted with. I closed all three of my accounts as a result. I’m on BlueSky now.

Maybe off-topic but please can journalists (and the rest) stop referring to X/Twitter? It’s X and I think the entire world knows that by now. It’s a bit like referring to Apple/Apple Computer We know. Thank you.

Hreb said:

As an iphone 12 user, the clumsy, giant form factor of the 16e combined with lack of magsafe makes the 16e extremely uncompelling.  It's not even cheap.  Zero chance this is my next smartphone.

Agreed, my iPhone 12mini is currently on eBay as I needed more storage … so I bought a 13mini! I want to keep hold of that small form factor for as long as I possible can. I am going to be so annoyed when I’m finally pushed into buying a bigger iPhone.