Apple displays a particular learning disability in regards to organization, which dates back decades. They didn't have categories or folders for Notes until a couple of years ago; all of your recipes, meeting notes, and shopping lists were in one giant pile of unorganized notes. Meanwhile Outlook had categories for notes since the early '90s.
Then there's the incredible degradation of the groups in Contacts: Instead of tapping on a group to go into that group of contacts ("Doctors," for example), Apple suddenly changed it so you now have to scroll through the entire list of groups to find the one you're currently viewing; deselect it; select the one you want to view, then dismiss the groups list. It's idiotic.
When you add a contact on your phone, you can't say what group to put it into. So now it's floating out in space.
Safari also will not show you WHERE a bookmark is in your bookmark list. If you can't remember where you've been storing car-repair tips, for example, you can search your bookmarks for "car..." but the search doesn't return folders even if their name matches. And if it returns a bookmark, it won't show you what folder that bookmark is in.
When you search for files in Finder, the results list doesn't show you WHERE they are. You can't even add "path" or "location" as an optional column. This has to be the dumbest search-result display in any file browser. It prevents you from skipping entire sections of the results that you know you aren't interested in, and it prevents you from sorting by location.
The apps-on-the-phone mess is par for Apple's course.
And all of this comes back to the embarrassing fact that Apple has forced customers to use a shoddy jukebox app to manage all of the applications and data on their handheld Unix computers for over a decade. There should have been a phone-management application on day one, let alone decade one.
Then there's the incredible degradation of the groups in Contacts: Instead of tapping on a group to go into that group of contacts ("Doctors," for example), Apple suddenly changed it so you now have to scroll through the entire list of groups to find the one you're currently viewing; deselect it; select the one you want to view, then dismiss the groups list. It's idiotic.
When you add a contact on your phone, you can't say what group to put it into. So now it's floating out in space.
Safari also will not show you WHERE a bookmark is in your bookmark list. If you can't remember where you've been storing car-repair tips, for example, you can search your bookmarks for "car..." but the search doesn't return folders even if their name matches. And if it returns a bookmark, it won't show you what folder that bookmark is in.
When you search for files in Finder, the results list doesn't show you WHERE they are. You can't even add "path" or "location" as an optional column. This has to be the dumbest search-result display in any file browser. It prevents you from skipping entire sections of the results that you know you aren't interested in, and it prevents you from sorting by location.
The apps-on-the-phone mess is par for Apple's course.
And all of this comes back to the embarrassing fact that Apple has forced customers to use a shoddy jukebox app to manage all of the applications and data on their handheld Unix computers for over a decade. There should have been a phone-management application on day one, let alone decade one.
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