How many months has IOS7 been out, and yet they won’t fix the “reboot the phone randomly when the volume control is pushed” bug? Myself and at least 3 or 4 of my friends have been suffering from that since Day 1, and Apple is still supposedly working on a fix…someday now…perhaps in IOS8? :rolleyes:
This, a thousand times this. Every iteration of Itunes has sacrificed previous simplicity for pointless complication. It’s change for changes sake, and it just makes thing worse.
That’s how it’s supposed work in theory, but my iPhone keeps screwing up the download process, and, as I said, periodically makes all the episodes unplayable.
I found a solution to part of what I find so annoying about IOS7. The changes to Safari were bothering me the most, but no other browsers I tried felt any better. But today I found the Mercury browser. It’s a lot like Safari, except it doesn’t suck.
Within a few minutes I was sold on it. It has a better pop up blocker and is more customizable. The only feature I wish it had is a reading list, but I can hack that using another kind of bookmark. So long, Safari!
But… but… if you don’t release a new OS/killer app/hardware/interface for each product line at least once or twice a year, all the pundits and bloggers will say you are falling behing, you are history, you’ve lost it, the future is passing you by! You’re the next Palm, the next GeoCities, the next MySpace! The share price will go down, the stockholders will bitch at you at the meeting! Plague and pestilence! Dogs and cats, living together!
…and of course they will STILL say just that when you launch whatever you DO launch whenever you do anyway, 'cause it still does not include the holographic stripper app, the code kiddies still can’t customize the curvature of the tilde, and the screen is 6.21" instead of 6.24".
It’s not just Apple, it’s MicroSoft, it’s Adobe, it’s Google and Yahoo, it’s everyone. Because you can’t just leave Good Enough alone, that’s crazy un-American talk, as that would mean people will hold on to the same piece of Good Enough hardware or software for years and the billions will stop flowing your way (MicroSoft may eventually have to hire mercenaries to break into houses and offices to physically destroy systems still running Windows XP, at the rate it’s holding on).
In the months before iOS 7 was released, there were literally hundreds of articles all calling Apple’s interface “stale” and “outdated,” and that the company would be doomed if they didn’t radically change it. So they radically changed it, and now the articles are all talking about how they should have left it alone.
There’s no way to win.
A lot of those articles were prolly planted by Apple, to start to nudge people into accepting and even wanting a new look iOS in the run-up to release. Marketing is slick nowadays.
No need. As with the other great Holy Wars (religion, politics, cars, music, and sports), there are plenty of people who will write scathing articles about them, no matter the merits. It’s the OS equivalent of the “everything Obama does is wrong” meme.
Wait, what? I’ve never seen that before.
I’m growing to like iOS7, frankly… whenever I use apps that go back to iOS6’s keyboard, they look horribly dated. And swipe to go back is the best thing ever!
This annoys me in applications such as Tapatalk. Half the time I swipe up, it reads it as a swipe left, so it goes to the next page, and then I can never get it to go back to the page I was reading by swiping right.
How are you swiping up that it reads as a swipe left? I’ve never had that happen to me before…
I have the same thing happening. If you use your left thumb and don’t watch what you’re doing, it’s indeed easy to have your upward swipe interpreted as a left swipe. I wrote to the Tapatalk people along with a few other issues and only got a system generated answer. Very disappointing.
Also, I like iOS 7. Control Center, new App Switcher, they’re great! Sometimes they did go overboard with the plain-ification, but that’s aesthetics that you can get used to.
Fortunately, an article I found in a search said it was introduced in 10.9, which I don’t have yet.
Speaking of that search, I can’t figure out from the articles I read if the bug actually exists in an iOS version before 7.0. They just assume you have 7.0 already. If I really actually need to update to 7.0 to get rid of the bug, I guess I have to, but nothing I’ve ready actually says one way or the other.
— Leonard McCoy, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Yeah, never seen that one, and, except for the calendar, I far prefer the look and feel of iOS7, and I love the swipe gesture that lets you pull up shortcuts to airplane mode, flashlight, wireless, etc. That I use all the time. I agree about iTunes becoming a freaking mess iteration after iteration. Every time I feel like I’m just getting used to the new version and where things are, they change it. Only Facebook infuriates me more with its pointless changes.
As for Mavericks, I don’t even know what’s changed on it. My desktop is on Mountain Lion, and my laptop is on Mavericks, and I don’t notice any difference between the two. The bonus is my laptop battery seems to run a little bit longer on Mavericks now vs. Mountain Lion. Oh, wait, that message center thing is Mavericks-only right? That’s pretty handy.
Well, even Microsoft has seen the problems with that one. They are rushing the schedule to get windows 9 out early. And all the management connected to windows 8 is now gone at Microsoft – either resigned, ‘retired’, or shuffled off to some backwater management area. Good riddance.
Us customers (or rather, non-customers) can take credit for that. Computer companies have notice how much customers don’t want Windows 8 that they are charging an extra $20-$30 for the option to ‘downgrade’ to Windows 7 – and something like 20% of customers are buying it. Local computer shops are advertising that they can sell you a machine with the latest CPU chip in it, but with windows 7, unlike what you get from Dell/Compaq/HP, etc.
Certainly there is.
You have an option available in your Preferences/Options menu that allows people to choose either the new or the old interface. But software designers hate that, because it puts the customers in control (and so many of them choose to keep the old format, which makes the designers look bad to their bosses).
Firefox used to be the most customizable browser, but the designers keep introducing pointless changes with no way to undo them – people have to write add-on extensions to get back to what you had before. Now the designers are working on a radical new interface called Australis – of the beta testers so far, 80% have said they don’t like it (though you have to look hard in their report to see that). The response of the arrogant designers – keep on with that design. It will be pushed onto all of us users sometime this summer, I think.
If Google is smart. they will have a big push for Firefox users to convert to Chrome about that time. I’m certainly going to consider it. There are people already writing extensions to undo many of these changes, but some haave been so hard-coded into Firefox that the can’t be removed. Why can’t they spend time fixing some of the bugs in Firefox, or speeding it up, instead of wasting time on changes that we users don’t want?
I agree with you about Firefox. I still use it as my primary browser, but the direction it’s heading is increasingly frustrating. Most recently, the total removal of the old download manager window annoyed me greatly.
Agreed 110%. Each “upgrade” is not just more and more complicated but also requires a ridiculous learning curve. And they come at you fast & furious.
Ooops! My above post was in response to this one. Apologies.
I’ve used Macs since 1988 and always staunchly defended Apple against the Windoze folks who seem to be more interested in working on their computers than getting work done on their computers.
However, in the past couple of years, a great deal of cynicism has set in. First, it was the “Save As…” fiasco. In version 10.7 of the OS, to Save a Copy of a document under a new name so you can preserve its contents while building a new document based on the old, you suddenly had to take six steps instead of two.
At least Apple listened to the substantial hue and cry this brought about, and ultimately returned the old way of doing a Save As in 10.8.
However…
I agree completely with those who say iTunes went from a wonderfully easy way to organize and listen to your music to an unholy mess. No words can suffice to say how bad it sucks now. It’s on my list of things to do to turn to an alternative and abandon it completely…just haven’t had the time to get to it yet.
And now comes the greatest insult of all: after not substantially updating their Word Processing app (Pages) for over seven years, Apple finally introduced a “new” version a few months ago.
Some “upgrade”! Over 100 things you could do in the old version of Pages have been stripped away, and it’s good now for little more than making lost dog flyers for you to hang on telephone poles.
The reason behind this savaging of a once fine program is cross-platform compatibility with the iOS versions. So…the way to bring about compatibility is to cripple the more capable program — yeah, that makes loads of sense. The notion that desktop computing is different from mobile device computing is totally lost on these morons.
This boneheaded move has completely soured any interest I have in upgrading to Mavericks. (This, plus the fact that Apple Mail has been seriously hosed as well, from all I read.)
Apple’s Snow Leopard (10.6) was the pinnacle of its desktop operating systems. My work computer is happily humming along on it, and until the OS ultimately breaks, that’s where it will stay. At home I’m on 10.8 (I have a newer Mac that won’t run 10.6), and that’s staying where it is as well.
So I completely agree with the premise of the thread: Apple’s definition of “improvement” is a long way from what mine is.