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Apple Launches All-in-One 'Manuals, Specs, and Downloads' Website
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Havenāt you heard? MacRumors Forums users decided by unanimous vote to buy enough shares to force Apple to replace all engineers and product managers with emoji artists and people whose sole job is to make Safari snappier! Now there will be absolutely no one working on the new iPads people are just dying for, and Apple will be replacing the Vision Pro with a masquerade ball-type mask of the nerd emoji with the glasses, rendering all forms of communication dead other than emojis!
Also, instead of releasing this section on their website, Apple should do a āno new featuresā update, then theyāll have no reason to update it!
(obvious /sarcasm is obvious)
As they did this they screwed up our nice and easy method of quickly looking up the specs of an Apple product by entering the serial number. We can use the check coverage site but it's not as fast and easy as the old Apple Specs site was. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that the field where we used to be able to enter the serial number had gone missing. I thought maybe it was a Safari glitch or maybe my ad blocker was interfering with it. Nope. It was just the harbinger of Apple changing the site and taking away this important and useful function. I used to use a script that would query the site using the serial to gather specs and info but that is likely broken. A lot of Apple admins used the old site and now we have to find something else to use. I am PO'd. The site wasn't broken to begin with and did not need to be "fixed".
You just haven't really polished your iPhone until you've used the Polishing Cloth 2 Pro Max Ultra. And don't even get me started on how amazing it is at polishing an iPad! Up to 2x more polishing per wipe compared to the original Polishing Cloth!
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Awā¦ I was just at the Specs page (which now redirects) last week and I think the Search function was goneā¦ I wondered what was up. There was a neat "trick" you could do and just put in a serial number and it would figure out the the model. This does not work on the new site FYI.
Interesting.
I just went to look at what showed for my first iPhone (3GS), and the iPhone user guide for iOS 5.1 loads an iPod nano guide: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/docs/iphone/132537
Who do I report this to?
I just went to look at what showed for my first iPhone (3GS), and the iPhone user guide for iOS 5.1 loads an iPod nano guide: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/docs/iphone/132537
Who do I report this to?
Interesting and overall welcome. They included some old software and software for old systems that I didn't expect but appreciate. I am sure some things can be improved as others have mentioned.
I do notice that Safari -- old as well as new versions -- is missing. You can search for it and get the V.5 installer and the Safari bundled with combo updaters but it doesn't seem to get its own section. I am just suprised they left the incremental updaters out while going back to include links to the Keynote '08 installer...
I do notice that Safari -- old as well as new versions -- is missing. You can search for it and get the V.5 installer and the Safari bundled with combo updaters but it doesn't seem to get its own section. I am just suprised they left the incremental updaters out while going back to include links to the Keynote '08 installer...
I guess that if you search for an older update that you are looking for it will sati show it and bring you to the (old) download page for that update.
Just on the subject of emojis, I'll never miss an opportunity to remind everyone that it's not Apple's fault. Blame lies with the Unicode Consortium. They ran out of useful work a long time ago and now spend their time filling the Unicode address space with controversial little pictures.
All things Apple Lisa (including a schematics.zip file):
I hope you get your Lisa running again.
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The āSadā reaction was because Apple has been making too many of these types of missteps in recent times for it to all just be bad timing or coincidence. Iām not going to sit here and float some conspiracy about Apple being doomed after all the recent departures of long-term staff, but there has been a slow, yet steady change for the worse in the way the company has been presenting itself.
It doesnāt seem like Apple is too big to fail, but it seems like theyāre too big not to, eventually. I was barely a pre-teen when Steve Jobs stepped down from Apple, and then a few months later when he eventually passed. Just a year later, I did a book report on Walter Issacsonās biography of Steve Jobs, because I was so captivated by Apple, the company, and by Apple, the culture.
Yes, there was a bit of āKool-Aidā involved in that, but at the time I remember it was all very genuine for so many people like me. I would say the turning point began around 2015 to 2016, and in the years since, Apple has slowly lost that culture piece, and is now yet another corporate monotony.
I donāt pretend to know any of the answers, and I definitely dread a day when Google, with all of its ADHD-tendency to its development culture, is objectively better, but, for now, this is why the āSadā reaction is there.
Ideally one wouldn't have to work these end-arounds to get some simple information.
