Copying MS’ Skype On iOS. They ask after every call how you’d rate it and 5 stars gets a request to rate the app and 1 simply asks what went wrong.
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Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Update to Developers
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Apple really needs to fix Mail on Catalina. It's terrible! Such an essential application. What is Apple thinking? Apple, please no more new features but fixes for all the bugs in Mail.app - asap!
I really don't know how macOS is going to survive in the future. The market share is shrinking not expanding. They lost over half a percentage point around the world in just the last quarter alone. Thats HUGE when you have less than 10 percent of the OS Market. Android use far exceeds Apple iPhone around the world. Same thing with Windows 10. And with Catalina dropping support for 5.1 Mac Pro's and older MacBook Pro's The macOS will see even more people leave Mac and go with Windows 10 with Windows 10 runs on quite a few older machines. I have Windows 10 running on IBM Thinkpad T520's , T530's, W530's and even IBM X301's WHICH ARE 2008 BUILT MACHINES. WINDOWS 10 runs fantastic with user replaceable SSD drives and upgradable memory to 16GB or 32GB for the W530 Thinkpads 2011 machines! iPads and Iwatches are a different story as They are dominant around the world
I could give you a long list of bugs, that have nothing to do with user ignorance. But the list is actually so long and complicated that I'm not going to spend time on it... I've already sent it to Apple.
There are also several missing professional features, that may or may not have been present in earlier macOS's, but they've become quite obvious with this troublesome release.
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Blocking Nvidia without replacing CUDA with an open standard is one of the most idiotic choices Apple has made. It seems like management somewhere misunderstood a roadmap planned years ago, when they changed their strategic direction from the Vulkan API to the proprietary Metal API, but had already made a decision on getting rid of the proprietary CUDA standard. The intention was never to replace on proprietary standard with another.
The decision gets even worse considering that AMD is so far behind Nvidia. Supporting AMD by exclusively using their GPU's in Apple's own builds is probably a good idea, to avoid a monopoly, but blocking Nvidia 3rd party GPU's are not.
Blocking H264 and H265 acceleration on older Macs, with capable GPU's is another customer unfriendly idea.
Blocking Catalina on about 7 year old professional Mac Pro's (sold before the 2013 toy) is also a really frustrating concept for professional customers. Th 7.1 Mac Pro ecosystem is not mature enough yet, and the price/performance of the current generation of W-Xeon CPU's are off the charts...
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WOAH. It appears to be fixed in this beta. Just installed and tested and it seems to be working now.
Some programs still open whenever I power on my 15" 2018 MB Pro even though I've closed them the day before shutting down. It doesn't happen every single boot, just sometimes. This has never happened in any previous version of macOS, just Catalina. Settings are the same as previous versions of macOS. Just odd.
Interesting. 🤔The big things should come in build 10.15.5 (beta) - Metal API update. As from the head of OTOY company statement, they hopes that the x.5 beta version will fits for launch their Octane GPU renderer (maybe Redshift will come too), which was announced at WWDC.
Where can I read more about this?
Having irrevocably lost 60GB in a case that Apple Senior Engineering closed after days of fruitless inquiry, there is not a chance I will entrust my data to this hack called iCloud Drive — a jumble of byte blobs that are supposed to make up a file somewhere, someday, "on demand."
All PC sales are trending DOWN over time, regardless of manufacturer. Desktops are losing marketshare to laptops, laptops to tablets, and tablets sales are getting stale because people don't replace them every year. Phones lead the way, but even that has to slow down at some point as we reach a threshold of speed, battery life and size. Personally, I hope EVERY software manufacturer – but especially Apple and Adobe – pumps the brakes and stops doing yearly updates to their software. Every release is geared towards a big splashy announcement, regardless of where each component is at. I'd rather they say, "we're gonna stick with MacOS(x) and just issue maintenance patches and fix all the bugs" or "you know what? That version of Photoshop we put out last year is FINE, no need to shove out a dodgy release just because Premiere Pro is getting updated." Get off this ridiculous hamster wheel of unnecessary updates and just focus on delivering solid software.
I wonder if a lot of everyone’s problems would be helped by a wipe clean and fresh install.
Upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion to Mountain Lion introduced so many bugs that I was horrified. Doing a fresh install fixed 90% of my errors back then, and I do that by default now.
I haven’t had any issues with Mail, it really any other bugs outside of the fact that Podcasts won’t sync properly to any device. And I can’t get Apple to acknowledge my report...
Upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion to Mountain Lion introduced so many bugs that I was horrified. Doing a fresh install fixed 90% of my errors back then, and I do that by default now.
I haven’t had any issues with Mail, it really any other bugs outside of the fact that Podcasts won’t sync properly to any device. And I can’t get Apple to acknowledge my report...
Ah. I'd forgotten that I had actually disabled Filevault to fix this. Admittedly not a great fix but it means that the eGPU works perfectly.
Guess what? I still cannot access the Pages directory at the root iCloud Drive even though I can access it using Mojave and iOS/iPadOS 13.4 beta. What a train wreck. Geez. I have been reporting this since October.
I have a backup of Pages on an SSD. Think I will try to copy it to the root iCloud Drive. Should be entertaining.
I have a backup of Pages on an SSD. Think I will try to copy it to the root iCloud Drive. Should be entertaining.
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A lot of the devices I've been testing have been 10.15.3 installed from the start and not upgraded, the problems are still there.