Why apple sucks

With every fix they think they fixed, there is more things they have created that just fucked with something else. Where did my user names go for logging into my Apple acct.?

Why is it being replaced with my name? The more they try to improve the iPhone or the iPad the worse it works!! You look on lone for help and everything is outdated and no help at all.

God forbid, I could actually speak to a human in a timely manner! They have become like Dell computers… my next computer will be a PC for sure.

I am done. My book! Larry Sanger Blog. In Tech and Coding. By Larry Sanger. Need a new power adapter because that magnetic bit on the end broke when it got bent back too much? How much, Apple Store?

Plain black phone bumper that you could get down the market for a fiver? Every upgrade of iTunes becomes a game of hide and seek. How do you make a playlist now? Having to wait for 20 minutes after coming out of the shower before our iPhone fingerprint scanner recognises us.

Which converts your elegant, slender, hopelessly underpowered iPhone 6 into an ugly, clunky monstrosity of a phone. You take a picture with your iPhone.

You import it to iPhotos. Now you try to attach it to an email. Instead, you have to find the photo, save a copy on to your desktop, then attach THAT version. Apple has cash reserves greater than the GDP of most countries, accrued in part by depriving those countries of taxes , and exploiting their mineral resources.

Indeed, Silicon Valley companies are giving developers Macs because it saves money in the long run. Developers are simply more productive.

I know people who work on Android at a leading phone manufacturer, and they use Macs. Some companies offer users a choice, and developers overwhelmingly choose the Mac. We seem to have different uses. I am a software developer, but I also record music as a hobby. If you get a chance, please post some data that demonstrates Windows is faster than OS X on comparable hardware.

Perhaps this is something I have overlooked. The Popular Mechanics articles and my own experience prove otherwise. It was great while it worked but this degree of willingness to work over a customer is the sole reason for most of the backlash that they are deservedly receiving. Absolutely finished with them which is unfortunate as they did make a good phone. Yeah… I wrote about that and informed people to upgrade after that issue was resolved. They fixed it very quickly. Check out Google Shopping or Amazon.

Basically, you plug it into your computer, start iTunes, and restore the device. I absolutely loathe the Apple Store. Especially where I live, in the Silly Con Valley, the people who work there are so obnoxious and arrogant. I went to the Apple store once. I called them, and they agreed to service my Mac. I brought it in and they reneged on what they promised. I dragged my huge, heavy Mac Pro down there.

I got over it. In the end, while the Apple Store experience upset me, the alternative was worse — getting a Windows machine, perhaps installing Ubuntu on it. OS X gives me the best of both worlds — unix and the ability to run consumer apps watch Netflix, use iTunes, etc.

Anyway, good luck with your Apple TV. There are alternatives such as Roku, Chromecast, etc. I guess I am a little less rattled by having to McGyver things, as I have been developing and trouble-shooting enterprise systems for years. Perhaps I forget that fixing an Apple TV would be fun for me. For most people, it is an unwelcome pain….

Apple sucks worse than ever now. My Retina is crashy as hell, prices are through the roof and updates and upgrades are brutally forced.

IPhone is trash, the kids barely use the ipad now and are all on android devices by their choice, and the jailbreakiing trash means I dont even own this device, and they constantly try and break how I like to use it.

Sounds like Android is a good choice for you. I still prefer iOS and Apple products. I use my iPad for media creation, as well as gaming. If I valued customization, I would go for Android. Android is a great choice for many people.

I get my share of truly open and customizable computing with Linux. Which apps are crashing on you all the time? Apple sucks big time.

Stupid apps are littered with in app purchases. Juts criminal. Government should take action. Admittedly, this happens rarely, but the fact that you deem the user so unworthy of progress appraisal make me question your whole boot, load, run paradigm. Apple is better than this, why they have chosen to start excluding the user from involvement in the progress, and establishment of the silly bsd boot process is beyond me. Just saying…. Apple, decide. I completely agree. Imagine this: I moved to another country recently.

I have a new credit card from the local bank. Apple will not allow me to add this credit card to my account, because it is not coming from my former home country. I cannot change my country because I have an active iTunes Match that I would have to cancel first.

Guess what, you cannot cancel iTunes Match, you can only select to not renew it! As a result: I will not be able to make any purchases from Apple for the next 8 months, because this is when my iTunes Match subscription ends and this is when I can change my country. This sucks soooooo much, that I can only laugh. I am so glad I have bought a new Surface Pro 3. Less apps, but also much less controlled by the dark side of the force.

Well, just as an update for , let me tell you that Apple, with iOS 8, sucks real, real bad now. My original iPad Mini has become close to unusable since iOS 8. Mail app crashes to the Springboard while composing. Transferring a photo album between two iOS devices without going through the Internet or a Wifi router?

Seems outright impossible. The first month I had a few. I re-launch the app, and everything is back. I have an iPad 2 not an Air, but an original that is 4 years old. I am running iOS 8. It runs quite well — I even play video games on it. What other company even supports a device that is 4 years old? How much free space do you have on your iPad Mini? I wrote this article way back when iOS 5 came out. That was horrible. They are promising iOS 9 will focus more on quality. They are not going to cram in as many features as with iOS 8.

Most of the problems I have are due to my Internet connection. If you look at customer satisfaction, they lead the industry. Almost all animations are choppy as hell. Buttons need seconds to respond to taps. No luck. Sometimes, trying to call from my iPad using my iPhone will just fade the screen briefly out and back in with no error message whatsoever. This is all on iOS 8. It seems like all of these problems you have are due to WiFi issues.

That may explain why most users are not facing these issues. I bought an AirPort Extreme — no more problems. I have been getting the same issues as AlwaysComplaining and it is not a router issue. I use an iPad Retina and have no issues but when I use my iPhone 6 plus my wifi fluidity is disturbed. I get constant apps freezing for a second or two and speed tests run between both devices I constantly run at half speed with iPhone and always full speed with iPad.

Apple claims they fixed the wifi issue but I am not completely sold that it is software instead of hardware. They certainly seem to be rushing from venture to venture and cheapening the Apple experience.

It could be a defective WiFi module. I have an iPhone 6 and get the same Speedtest results as on my Mac and iPad. If you compare vehicles just by its carrying capacity and horsepower, get the truck. And reduce its weight to get a overpowered dual-v8 car. But you cant drive a truck to the hotel lobby. You need a car. This is the reason between Desktops and Laprops as well as Tablets and Phones.

They have their specific uses. But you get what you pay for. Just seems stupid. Yes, I found a key shortcut for cycling through all the open windows, but it chokes when it gets to my Emacs window…emacs captures the keystrokes. More silliness. Linux offers a variety of user interfaces, some of which are copies of OS X, like Macbuntu and others. The UI is just the shell and can be changed.

All of the menu commands can be displayed regardless of window size. I actually prefer it to Windows. There is a disadvantage. If you have multiple windows open, you need to click on the window once to focus it and display the menu bar. The last version of Windows I used XP had this same issue.

You had to click once to focus it, and then you could access a menu item. If you have a trackpad, you just swipe three fingers up and get a birds eye view of all open windows and desktops.

It must be a great feature, because Microsoft copied it in Windows Note that I did buy my first Apple product this year, an iPad Air 2. Cuz I wanted a tablet with a aspect ratio to read PDFs , and the few Android tablets with that a. A new Samsung design came out, which I was eagerly awaiting, but they made terrible design decisions weak CPU, extremely thin at the cost of terrible battery life.

We were particularly keen on the claimed well presented output that Apple publicity suggested we would get. In many ways we have not been disappointed but in one particular area we have been very much let down by Apple. When printing emails, especially emails with graphics anywhere in the email, OS X Mail will from time to time put a page break in the middle of a line of text, putting the top half of the line of on one page and the bottom of the line on another page see image below.

This problem occurs whether printing to a physical printer or to pdf. Apple Care have told us that there is no way to prevent this problem, and that we will have to wait and see if it is fixed in a future version of the program… We frequently are involved in contracts etc where an email trail is a key bit of information, and it is hugely frustrating and embarrassing that we cannot control the output so that the text is all readable.

It appears that OSX Mail has decided that the page break will come at exactly the place the page it wants to, irrespective of whether that chops a line in half or not. So, if you need to print out emails in a form that can be read and does not make you look professionally inept, think twice before choosing Apple.

Their stock apps are terrible. Of course, this may not be an ideal solution for everyone. Check out Thunderbird. I still think OS X is a great operating system. I have used OS X for about 7 years and have not once had a system crash. This was when I worked for a Fortune company that had just about every security measure in place. You can install different email clients, as well as substitutes for other stock apps.

The teams that develop their stock apps are staffed with mediocre developers. Some of their products are excellent, and others are deeply flawed. They keep their top talent working on the most critical products. Companies like Apple hire average developers to create their stock apps. The software that comes bundled with OS X and iOS is not much better than the free software that comes with a Dell or other Windows systems.

I also like the quality of Apple devices. I have owned a lot of Windows machines, and most of them are just so chintzy. I feel like buying a Windows machine is a roll of the dice. Buying a Mac is a slam dunk. Add in the way Apple treat their customers, though: just remember the way they killed iWeb on them, huge amounts of peoples work just gone. They just suck. I may have to revisit this article with an update. Besides the highly publicized flaws in iOS 9. Ever since iOS 8, Apple has offered users very buggy releases.

If these were inexpensive products created by some fly-by-night startup, I could understand it. This is the largest corporation on the planet and they charge a premium for their products, presumably because they are of higher quality than the competition.

They have been doing some sneaky things lately. They pulled the plug on free iTunes radio. It now requires an Apple Music subscription. One of the top commenters on this site returned his Apple TV 4 because of this. I tried Apple Music but canceled it because it was too buggy. In the three months I used it, it seemed to get worse. My iPad 2 is continually crashing. For Apple to succeed, they need to create a new, breakthrough product like the iPhone that everyone will want to buy.

Instead, they are fiddling around with the size of existing products developed when Steve Jobs was in charge. The homogeneity of UIs makes some sense. The cadre of hardcore Apple fans may continue to buy their products. They are iSheep and will buy anything Apple puts out and claim it is the best thing in the world. A device like Apple TV is fairly simple. It is highly specialized, less complex, and therefore should have fewer defects.

I went to the download screen and noticed it already had 85 5-star ratings after just two days in the App Store. All it does is play Apple Events. The problem is, most people who buy an iPhone, their most popular product, are not iSheep.

If their iPhone is buggy, they may very well switch to another smartphone. The vast majority of Apple customers are not loyal to the company.

They are not iSheep. Maybe this is what it will take for them to wake up and smell the coffee. Apple needs to invest more in QAT, stop cramming so many useless features into releases and fix defects. If they did that, one could honestly justify paying more for an Apple product. I am personally dismayed that I no longer have a high quality option for computers and electronics. I had been happily using itunes All I use itunes for is to download certain podcasts.. While the world focuses on the the latest gee-whiz…perhaps the basics of the value proposition should receive a bit more attention.

Their devices are amazing. Mac OS X is rock solid. Trying to make the iPad a professional device is pointless as long as it runs this limited mobile operating system. For me, I stick with their devices and operating systems, but look elsewhere for content. There are numerous Podcast apps that are superior to anything Apple has to offer.

They are better than the trial ware one would get with a new PC. Google, for example, makes some of the best iOS apps. Apple is a huge corporation.

Large corporations have very complex and regimented engineering processes. These processes work well for building large projects — devices and operating systems. They are unable to quickly resolve defects.

Reminders still has a sync bug that has been a problem for 3 years. Apple also has difficulty attracting top talent. They do hire some talented engineers, but they are assigned to work on their top-selling products.

Furthermore, top talent in the Valley want a lot of equity. A six figure salary is not enough. A few stock options with high strike prices are not enough. The top people in the Valley start their own companies.

Apple has certainly transformed into a company that looks similar to the fashion industry. It seems like Apple is competing with Zara or Gucci i. Apple keeps making its products thinner. The new iPad Pro is so thin that it could bend easily. We certainly don't want to use Apple products to cut apples and tomatoes in the future. Apple is very successful in terms of designs and their designs are eye-catchy for sure but their designs are rather overhyped.

Apple should now strive for better specs in their devices. Apple users might know that the Apple map isn't good as that of Google Maps, but Apple doesn't like Google or any other companies. Apple has got some awesome software too, but it would be better if Apple allows its users to use better software that isn't exclusive to Apple.

I have detested Apple Products since their start up back when the flop disks were just coming n line in I started programing in those early days and did so until he late 's. It worked pretty good until this latest OS update. I installed the new update and now I can not turn the iPad on! Updates are meant to improve performance, but Apple is an exception. Apple need to update it's mechanism of repairing.

The product itself cost a grand and repairing costs about the half of the price of the product. Reasons why Apple sucks: 1. Apple is more like a fashion industry nowadays.

Moreover, it completely freezes the computer because it takes a large amount of CPU. Users find it difficult to interact with iTunes as they aren't user-friendly. Transferring files becomes impossible because of loading time.