I am getting increasingly annoyed with Apple products lately. There seems to be an aggressive trend towards disconnecting the users from the power over their own data and their own decisions concerning their need for security. A few examples:
* Safari is tripping you all the time since Catalina with highly questionable and overzealous 'security measures' that render it useless to work with. A good example would be sites like draw.io, which Safari broke on account of not handling the OAuth dialogues. This would not be a problem if I could tell it to not interfere (which I tried using the provided settings), but it does interfere. All .. the .. time. Very annoying. Bye Safari, welcome the need for another browser, which is ofc a pain to keep things in synch.
* Another pet peeve: enforcing 2-factor authentication on users without giving them an option to 'opt out'. The feature is flaky, super annoying and doesn't add anything of value if you only have one device (it displays the code on the same device). Heck, it still displays the code on the same device half the time. Why should I be forced to run around with a locatable device (like an iPhone) just to log on to a website? In all truthfulness, the feature to me introduces more security concerns than it solves. Do I get an options to opt out? They refuse! This is my security, I get to decide?!
* A fine example of refusing the user control over their own data comes with the new apps Music and Audiobooks. They force you to migrate your audiobooks over to the Books app and then disallow simple things like renaming your book titles?! Or try to organise a library in Music that grew over 20 years as a collection of various sources and formats. You can not even select a bunch of albums to delete them conveniently! It's a nightmare! Either someone is really, really bad at UI design, or this is another conscious decision to make it harder to access and control your own data. Most likely to drive them into their own media shops. Yet again your freedom to choose as a consumer is completely trampled on.
* Finally I would like to mention Apple's decisions to abandon entire swathes of users with perfectly fine hardware that was rendered useless by failing to support it with updates. Users paid for it, Apple has a moral duty to support these machines until the end of their lifespan, not as long as it is convenient. We live in times where planned obsolescence should be viewed as a criminal act against the environment and fraudulent. If I do not want to produce waste, why should Apple force me to? This is unacceptable!
The list goes on. Users are constantly forced to abandon control over their own data and relinquish the power to decide on the extend of their security to Apple. This stinks! In fact: after decades of swearing by Apple products, if this trend is not quickly reversed, this is the end of my relationship as a customer with Apple.
* Safari is tripping you all the time since Catalina with highly questionable and overzealous 'security measures' that render it useless to work with. A good example would be sites like draw.io, which Safari broke on account of not handling the OAuth dialogues. This would not be a problem if I could tell it to not interfere (which I tried using the provided settings), but it does interfere. All .. the .. time. Very annoying. Bye Safari, welcome the need for another browser, which is ofc a pain to keep things in synch.
* Another pet peeve: enforcing 2-factor authentication on users without giving them an option to 'opt out'. The feature is flaky, super annoying and doesn't add anything of value if you only have one device (it displays the code on the same device). Heck, it still displays the code on the same device half the time. Why should I be forced to run around with a locatable device (like an iPhone) just to log on to a website? In all truthfulness, the feature to me introduces more security concerns than it solves. Do I get an options to opt out? They refuse! This is my security, I get to decide?!
* A fine example of refusing the user control over their own data comes with the new apps Music and Audiobooks. They force you to migrate your audiobooks over to the Books app and then disallow simple things like renaming your book titles?! Or try to organise a library in Music that grew over 20 years as a collection of various sources and formats. You can not even select a bunch of albums to delete them conveniently! It's a nightmare! Either someone is really, really bad at UI design, or this is another conscious decision to make it harder to access and control your own data. Most likely to drive them into their own media shops. Yet again your freedom to choose as a consumer is completely trampled on.
* Finally I would like to mention Apple's decisions to abandon entire swathes of users with perfectly fine hardware that was rendered useless by failing to support it with updates. Users paid for it, Apple has a moral duty to support these machines until the end of their lifespan, not as long as it is convenient. We live in times where planned obsolescence should be viewed as a criminal act against the environment and fraudulent. If I do not want to produce waste, why should Apple force me to? This is unacceptable!
The list goes on. Users are constantly forced to abandon control over their own data and relinquish the power to decide on the extend of their security to Apple. This stinks! In fact: after decades of swearing by Apple products, if this trend is not quickly reversed, this is the end of my relationship as a customer with Apple.
