Apple is really trying to shoot the moon when it comes to bugs this year
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Apple Investigating Apple Watch Series 8 and Ultra Microphone Issues
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I tried my Ultra a bunch of times, asking Siri different things, and I haven't encountered it (yet) either. I wonder if certain apps or settings are causing it.
It’s just Siri sucks and is a continuing failure for Apple. Nothing wrong with the mics.
It’s not completely unfounded, not every home worker is top tier. We have remote workers and their productivity has absolutely gone down, and is documented to hopefully make way for a more eager candidate.
As many issues as Apple is having come to light with these recent releases, it is apparent there is a productivity/quality drop somewhere.
I got over the launch day fever years ago. I live vicariously through Macrumors but look at buying closer to the end of each year rather than September/October.
Good to know. Cancel the article folks. We have a use case of one reporting all is well.
I took a risk with my M1 MBP back in 2020, but that was a one off. My 2015 MBP was starting to feel long in the tooth.
Why the snark? Its fairly normal in these threads for people to report whether they are seeing the issues or not.
Hope it is not a widespread hardware issue. Hopefully a simple software update can fix it.
Much more likely designed while someone was sitting on the can. Scrawling ideas onto TP (most probably) during the TP crisis at the beginning of the pandemic. LOL
They’re not even trying anymore. They’re going balls to the wall with the belief that Apple customers will buy anything now, regardless of quality. So long as its Apple…
And he’s not wrong!
And he’s not wrong!
I have noticed problems on my S8. The first time I could hear the other perfectly via Walkie Talkie but they would not hear anything from my side (only switching off/on seemed to fix it). The other times I picked up phone calls (iPhone sitting right next to me) on the Watch and the other person also could not hear me. This has happened several times now.
I have an ultra. I haven't had any issues with it at all. As to issues like this, it sounds like software. Why is anyone surprised that with a rollout schedule like Apple has on new products there are bugs appearing. Your software quality control can be superb and you still wont be able to test like you will see when you expose your brand new product to the big wide world in a mass real world trial when people are experiencing scenarios of events that you would have had no idea about.
I'm not whitewashing this and I'm definitely not an Apple fanboy. They get a lot wrong and much of their philosophy I don't like but one needs to be fair. I'd fall off my chair if we didn't have bugs and issues for at least 6-12 months into the release (on a declining basis). Its reality. The new stuff is more complex than the old and Apple has to learn too.
I'm not whitewashing this and I'm definitely not an Apple fanboy. They get a lot wrong and much of their philosophy I don't like but one needs to be fair. I'd fall off my chair if we didn't have bugs and issues for at least 6-12 months into the release (on a declining basis). Its reality. The new stuff is more complex than the old and Apple has to learn too.
It is about time Apple revives its old (and long gone) mantra "It just works".
I'm not convinced it ever just worked. It certainly hasn't just worked for at least a decade in my view.
The release cycles are becoming ridiculous (this is not just an Apple issue). With the shortages these days, I'm reaching the state where I'm starting to think that I'll hold off till the next model is released because by the time you'd actually received the goods (in the UK at least) you're already half way through the release cycle. I'd rather see a two year release cycle with bigger improvements. It would also be less damaging to the environment.
With a slower release cycle the quality would also go up. Perhaps we'd see it just working once more. Nobody needs an annual update.
Fast becoming a laughing stock. I got rid of my watch because I got tired of waiting for them to fix multi-generational show stopping bugs and calamitous design choices. New Apple repeatedly demonstrates that the products and user experience play second fiddle to sacking people for telling jokes and pretending that NASA is run exclusively by powerful women who lord over submissive beta males.
Wow you seem quite angry. Well clearly some bugs are affecting some people more than others. I have been lucky enough not to experience them but obviously we all use our devices in different so don't necessarily suffer the same bugs. It's a shame that you've had that experience.
My Mac experiences weren't so good. I found the last few OS releases to be much more buggy than windows. I also had issues with keyboards. iPhone/watch issues though for me have been non existent.
Not at all. Just sharing my views based on personal experience and observations. Everyone is free to disagree 👍
I may have misread you then - sorry. Written communication is so imprecise with respect to mood. I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was commiserating. I haven't experienced issues on the phones and watches but have on the laptops. I'm sure its these stupid one year release cycles that contribute. A frantic pace of development which is frankly unnecessary in my view.