Why is it called beta? Their releases are buggier than beta, and their beta's are more like alphas.
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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite Beta to Developers [Updated]
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Why is it called beta? Their releases are buggier than beta, and their beta's are more like alphas.
Making microsoft look good.
"You should consider Windows in the future if you feel that strongly."
What type of attitude is that? It is well known that improvements come from suggestions and complaints.
Apple needs to focus intensely on Quality.
Apple has gotten to the top because of its reputation for quality. Customers are willing to pay a higher price because they demand higher quality. Long time Apple customers are becoming disillusioned! (Read the latest 500 reviews on the App Store - over 50% are negative).
Many of these negative reviews could have been avoided if Apple had paid attention to the Apple Seed Testers (They appear to have been ignored during the development of Yosemite).
Focus less on appearing fashionable and more on USER EXPERIENCE!
Spend a little money and hire people to search the forums for issues. In addition, have a team of engineers dedicated to solving these issues.
Allow users to customize the user interface. Microsoft was forced into allowing greater customization when the Windows user base started growing dramatically in the 90's. Microsoft faced constant pressure and complaints for customization features. When Microsoft removed the customization features in Windows 8 their customer base was outraged and created Microsoft all sorts of problems. Apple is now in the same position.
Here are the features I wish Yosemite had.
Ability to customize OSX in the following ways:
Ability to change Dock color, and Finder Sidebar colors if transparency is turned off.
Ability to set which items are transparent or not.
Light colored transparency or dark colored transparency.
Optional larger font size for the Menu bar. (This is becoming a big issue with potential switchers.)
Option to set the default behavior of the Green Button. Personally I wish I could set it to open full window and not full screen. Why? Quick access to the Menu bar and the Dock are important to me. In addition, I dont like the delay switching between full screen and non full screen.
Option to set the default screen size upon opening an app. This option could be placed in Get Info. I suggest three options Full Screen, Full Window, Windowed.
It would be so nice not to have to rearrange the app each time I open it.
Arrow Snap Microsofts best contribution to graphical computing (for arranging windows side by size on the screen).
Send Apple your Feedback at:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
In addition, Tweet Tim Cook on Twitter.
What type of attitude is that? It is well known that improvements come from suggestions and complaints.
Apple needs to focus intensely on Quality.
Apple has gotten to the top because of its reputation for quality. Customers are willing to pay a higher price because they demand higher quality. Long time Apple customers are becoming disillusioned! (Read the latest 500 reviews on the App Store - over 50% are negative).
Many of these negative reviews could have been avoided if Apple had paid attention to the Apple Seed Testers (They appear to have been ignored during the development of Yosemite).
Focus less on appearing fashionable and more on USER EXPERIENCE!
Spend a little money and hire people to search the forums for issues. In addition, have a team of engineers dedicated to solving these issues.
Allow users to customize the user interface. Microsoft was forced into allowing greater customization when the Windows user base started growing dramatically in the 90's. Microsoft faced constant pressure and complaints for customization features. When Microsoft removed the customization features in Windows 8 their customer base was outraged and created Microsoft all sorts of problems. Apple is now in the same position.
Here are the features I wish Yosemite had.
Ability to customize OSX in the following ways:
Ability to change Dock color, and Finder Sidebar colors if transparency is turned off.
Ability to set which items are transparent or not.
Light colored transparency or dark colored transparency.
Optional larger font size for the Menu bar. (This is becoming a big issue with potential switchers.)
Option to set the default behavior of the Green Button. Personally I wish I could set it to open full window and not full screen. Why? Quick access to the Menu bar and the Dock are important to me. In addition, I dont like the delay switching between full screen and non full screen.
Option to set the default screen size upon opening an app. This option could be placed in Get Info. I suggest three options Full Screen, Full Window, Windowed.
It would be so nice not to have to rearrange the app each time I open it.
Arrow Snap Microsofts best contribution to graphical computing (for arranging windows side by size on the screen).
Send Apple your Feedback at:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
In addition, Tweet Tim Cook on Twitter.
feel free to enjoy your microsoft if it pleases you.
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Very good point indeeeeeeed. To the whiners: it would be great if you could report your problem to apple and help to improve the products. At your leisure of complaining. No one else knows how to complain so hard when you don't even have WiFi.
Well said! I would also like to see those features for each program screen size, I can't believe it doesn't already exist! And also I really don't understand why we can't have any two applications side by side on an internal as well as an external display (as in a laptop) it is so convenient when you are trying to do some work.
-Mike
So you suggest that LIKE YOU, he should just turn around and bend over? After spending PREMIUM price for supposedly "premium" product? He probably bought it because of this claims and doesn't want windows BS....yet he got just that. Mc OS Vista.
Real world doesn't work like this. You don't just buy some product, pay premium price for it and then just throw it away if you found out you got screwed.
Here is an idea....maybe instead of paying insane amount of $ for some beats company or some burberry chick....try to hire some engineers.....you know, the ones that actually make products. If anyone actually read some interview from apple employees he would realize that there is insane small team of engineers working on projects. Sure they are probably god like, but time constraints are insane and they are bound to make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes when in hurry. What is next for bean counter Timmy.....moving development to india? Maybe put snop dogg on os x dev team and pay him couple of billions so he can get all the weed he likes.
Tim C(r)ook: "Oh our products don't work and i have **** loads of work to do? Nah, I would just rather go to some convention to support gay people and use Apple for my personal goal. People will still buy our product so why bother"
Does this fix the sh*tastic problem of Airport Extremes (and their attached Storage devices) not showing up in Yosemite?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6607637?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6607637?start=0&tstart=0
At the rate of which bugs are being fixed, I'm glad I sticked with Mavericks instead of upgrading.
Yes I held off, Glad I did, One other thing stopping me is the fact I have Crucial SSD in my MBP 2011 and the Lack of trim support is a issue for me.
don't they gettit?
I remember the times when people feared the updates like Guantanamo. Some folks are still on System 7, mind the fact that their systems are working just fine. Please Apple, don't do this to your userbase.
I remember the times when people feared the updates like Guantanamo. Some folks are still on System 7, mind the fact that their systems are working just fine. Please Apple, don't do this to your userbase.
Have you enabled FileVault? If so, that login is actually pre-boot and is used to unlock the encrypted boot disk, which is why it shows on the laptop screen (the OS hasn't loaded at this point so it doesn't know what preferences have been set)
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Companies have a certain ethos, and Apple's ethos -- baked in by Steve Jobs -- was that Apple knows best, and the customer has no idea what they want. Until you get rid of Apple's know-it-all syndrome, they're not going to listen.
The only way to change that is for Apple's sales to start falling.
Agreed, the first thing I noticed with Yosemite was the About tabs being so jerky and lagged badly. I don't know why this was not polished before release. No other OS version has this issue.
Well, they made big changes to UI on Yosemite. No other OS X release had to deal with this many changes at once. It's expected that the UI is going to be more jerky than usual. And I don't think it'll get fixed soon either. Maybe in the next release. I'm annoyed by it as hell though.
There is an old saying.. If its not broke don't fix it. I have IOS6 on an Iphone 4s, I make calls, receive and send tx and brows the net, it just works. I have Mavericks on a MBP 2014, and although the obsession with Apple to make everything thinner and the pain in the arse with adaptors, no drivers from 3rd party suppliers etc etc, Mavericks is stable.
What you get with Yosemite I don't miss because I have never used it. People who are early adopters get what you get, bugs, crashes, crap signal strength and hair loss. Just wait before you have to have the latest thing, it's called being a grown up.
What you get with Yosemite I don't miss because I have never used it. People who are early adopters get what you get, bugs, crashes, crap signal strength and hair loss. Just wait before you have to have the latest thing, it's called being a grown up.
So agree with this. How about if Apple finally gives us UI choices on our computers and stops this one size fits all forced upon us. The idiotic tiny light font. We don't have bionic vision like Jony Ive supposedly has. Look at iTunes 12. I have the font on large and it's still like 9 or 10 point. Definitely need bold print in the drop down menus. I'm so tired of spending my time searching for font fixes because Apple optimized the display for retina screens. My MBP UI looks degraded with Yosemite.
Edit: Also, I can't stand the super light grey in the Safari menu bar. I want to be able to darken it. I've been looking for a fix for that too. So frustrating!
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I've just installed 10.10.2 on my Mac Mini. Now, for the first time in Yosemite, the tab switching animation in the About this Mac window is finally smooth.
This is actually good news indicating that SOME graphic adjustments are being done. The UI fluidity is abysmal in Yosemite. Mission Control is a slide show with more than 10 windows open.
I'm taking a stab in the dark posting on this thread because I usually don't bother. But then, I'm sure that Apple has employees checking out various forums to see customer feedback re: bugs. I've reported the UI and font problems six times now because this affects my work. What's the protocol these days, report three times per day until it's eventually fixed which could be six months from now?
Did they pull the update because neither of my Mac which are enrolled in appleSeed are seeing the update. It showed up last night but I didn't install, was going to this morning but the update is gone and isn't appearing again.
At the rate of which bugs are being fixed, I'm glad I sticked with Mavericks instead of upgrading.
You've got that right! With the rapid increase in system complexity, early adoption just doesn't make sense any more. Looks like I might wait for 10.10.3 release before I switch away from Mavericks or iOS 7.
True, but are these really sales since it's free? Remember the old adage, "You get what you pay for."