titantiger

Ok, also, this section highlighted below is some bullshit:



Seriously Apple?  You take away Gigabit Ethernet, only give two Thunderbolt/USB4 ports, and no Touch ID on the keyboard?  These are the sorts of compromises you'd expect on the el cheapo version built for K-12, not for a consumer desktop.

I love everything about it except....once again, Apple is being so stingy with the storage.  256GB for a desktop computer is almost insulting.  For $1300, 512GB should have been the minimum and I wish I didn't keep having this complaint every time there's a big refresh in the Mac product line.  A disappointing skimp on what looks like a really nice update.

I too wish the chin was totally gone, but I suppose we just aren't there yet.

There's also this article, a month before the XR's release date, discussing that it didn't have the 4x4 MIMO antenna:

https://www.wiwavelength.com/2018/09/iphone-xr-trades-4x4-mimo-for-greater.html

2x2 MIMO antennas were in iPhones up through the X and iPhone 8/8 Plus series.  It's not a defective design, it's just not the latest/greatest technology which at the time of release for the XR, XS and XS Max was the 4x4 MIMO.  

There's no evidence Apple misrepresented this antenna in the XR or hid that spec from anyone.  I'm confused as to why people would think a phone that is obviously a step down from the flagship models of that year (see LCD screen instead of OLED, single lens camera, etc) should have top of the line specs.

Right now, it's basically unusable.  Tapping an item to mark it complete freezes the app for a minute or more sometimes and even then often won't actually mark it complete - forget syncing with other devices.  That's a long way off.  Old items that actually did mark as complete and disappear suddenly reappear a day later.

And don't even get me started on it breaking shared lists with people on iOS 12.  What an idiotic decision.

This was not ready for primetime and should not have been something that replaced the old app.  It should have been developed alongside the old one so you could at least continue to use Reminders.  I'm not an Apple hater and I have quite a high tolerance for new stuff and betas.  But this was a complete s***show.