I HATE APPLE

Non-upgradeable memory is amongst the most annoying things in all of Appledom. I'm about to spring on a 64gb iPhone, and when 32gb microSD cards are readily available for $25 each, it's robbery to charge $200 for an extra 48gb for your iPhone or iPad.

some day they will be able to make the whole phone out of one non-moving part. the diagnostic process will be as simple as: "does this part work?" if it does not work, they swap your phone with their new all-encompassing applecare.

literally robbery

not stanning, but I think apple uses storage that's faster and more reliable than your average twenny buck sd card

They do, but even the highest-end brands of flash memory don't cost $100 for 16gb. I do see Apple's position that forcing the use of high-quality memory leads to ppl not losing their data/photos/etc. and thus the perception of a more reliable device.

oh yeah, it's absolutely scalping

its so ppl look at the cheaper ones and think hmm not a bad price

I think it's so that Apple makes billions of fucking dollars.

The hugest scam is the price to put a 3G radio in an iPod touch runs $600, near enough.

All these fuckers are pushing non-upgradable memory. They all want you to use the cloud, which is lame.

what does the cloud have to do w/memory?

I think Josh is referring to storage memory, not RAM.

oh FFS

ONE tiny stuck pixel on my rmbp ... it's like having one grain of sand in your eye. tiny issue, huge huge huge annoyance if i'm trying to watch a movie w/ lots of black in it.

now i'm going to have to figure out how to live w/o a computer for a week or something while applecare sorts it out ...

0th world problems

what's to sort out? it can't be repaired easily. they should give you a replacement on the spot in an apple store. or is it a BTO?

it's BTO

RIP

heh I thought there was like a threshold # of pixels - like 5 or less no dice?

you can try one of those screen flashers to unstick it

OK, I'm very late to this, but in the new itunes where the hell is my iphone and where are the sync buttons?

Give it a little massage

OK, I'm very late to this, but in the new itunes where the hell is my iphone and where are the sync buttons?

― ljubljana, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:56 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/29/itunes-11-for-old-fogies-goin-back-to-the-way-it-was/

heh I thought there was like a threshold # of pixels - like 5 or less no dice?

correct, sir :-(

he said come back when it's bigger

(nyuk nyuk)

Did you explain to him that it was like having a grain of sand rubbed in your eyes all day?

in precisely those words

he said something like "don't look for flaws in our retina screens because you'll invariably find them, it's new technology and hard to get perfect"

the truth is the only time i see it is when i'm watching a movie with lots of lots of black in it, like a horror movie or something. then it looks like a speck of dust on the screen i can't get off.

i know, i know, 1% problems, but i didn't pay $$$$ for the world's most amazing display with a dead pixel

they also managed to upsell me on fancy screen cleaning fluid

here's an odd thing that's been happening to me: when i am just letting itunes play, it sometimes randomly seems to get stuck on the back arrows << and won't come "unstuck" if i press pause or play ... i have to click on another track to start it up.

has that happened to anybody?

he said something like "don't look for flaws in our retina screens because you'll invariably find them, it's new technology and hard to get perfect"

I think at this point you should have asked if he would have said that to Steve Jobs.

jeff the skinny bearded genius looked a lot like steve jobs actually

Don't, like, 40% of produced laptop screens not even make it past QC? I'm under the impression that it's exceedingly difficult to manufacture LCD (or whatever they are) screens and dead pixels are just a part of the technology

dislike the new iTunes album display with the fancy color-matching. it only shows a faded (and i think cropped?) version of the album art. we have these giant beautiful displays now, it doesn't make any sense. black and white album art looks especially bad.

I switched to Mac a month ago and I love and prefer most things about Mac, but the things that piss me off are:

- No fucking Delete key! Or rather, the Delete key is the Backspace key, and there is no key for deleting forward.

- Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY? Which operation is more common, opening, or renaming? Therefore, why not make opening a 1-key operation?

- Keyboard shortcuts in Office programs are not the same. Word is weird and scary. Excel is scary and weird.

- Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY? Why not cycle through the open windows? Instead I have to use my mouse or trackpad (I use Hot Corners) to open Mission Control, which is a bunch of extra movement, which seems very un-Appley.

- The whole installation process with the disk images blah blah blah. This turned out to be easy to get used to, but new Macs should come with a big warning label about the installation process. Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)

- It won't recognize all the keys on my USB keyboard.

There are like a million blogs about this stuff, and now there is one more entry.

- No fucking Delete key! Or rather, the Delete key is the Backspace key, and there is no key for deleting forward.

Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY?

Reason is supposed to make you use the mouse, now that you've finally left DOS you may not be used to the new interface device.

Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY?

Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)

Who uses the mouse to open things? Use command-O.

Thanks, stet. The Command-~ will be very useful. I googled the problem and didn't find an answer before I got fed up, so I am grateful for your advice.

I know about fn-backspace, but I think that deleting is common enough a task that it deserves its very own key.

Were you sassing me w/r/t using the mouse? One of the great things about Macs is the efficiency of OS, so why would I want to use a mouse? I know about Command-O, but again, it's an extra key-press for an activity that is extremely common.

Anyway, like I said, on the whole, I love Mac and I finally realize what Mac people were on about. I tried using Windows 8 on a friend's computer the other day, and found that they had made the simple act of deleting a file fraught with potential malfunctions, and I started saying Mac Guy stuff.

Ah no wasn't sassing you, but Apple. The original Mac keyboard didn't have arrow keys because they were terrified people wouldn't use the mouse and would just carry on with keyboard interfaces.

There are a fair few hangovers from decisions made in those days still in OS X

Ha. That's funny b/c now (over)reliance on mice is for backwards people.

(I thought it was out of character for you to sass me!)

After years of using macs, I still hate the enter/rename thing. Then I just gave up on basically all file management on a mac and just let things organize themselves however they want.

That's why I like Quicksilver.

The hierarchical file system is a legacy concept anyway. It's a terrible interface for almost everybody.

Command down arrow is the best way to open things.

otm

My iPhone is one of those that has had its battery life screwed by the iOS 6.1 update. Can't get close to a day's use out of it all of a sudden.

After hearing about iTunes, I'm not updating anything until I get the all-clear.

Weird; my phone is opposite. Finally get decent life. (4s).

Down to 70% in two hours today. Running hot.

you might need to power cycle/full recharge a couple times

People always complain about battery life after iOS updates.