Maybe one day they can actually add features and functions to iworks so that it can be used in the office and be a serious alternative to microsoft. This news is actually good, it's just that iworks is so far behind at this point that i would have thought it would be given some priority.
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Apple's Services Teams to Start Working Together to Improve Siri, Maps, iCloud, and iTunes
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Well, Apple use(d) AWS and Google for their own services in conjunction with their own so...
Things really aren't bad. Things aren't really popping, but that's what Google is: a services company where things need to pop. Apple just needs things to work well and they generally do
They need to do something. Their cloud services are terrible - nothing ever synchs properly.
Apple knows that services and add-ons is where the $$ is at. Mobile device development is starting to hit a plateau with marginal improvement on the specs versus performance side (asides from battery technology), so people will likely use their devices for longer than the 1 year cycle that's been common thus far. If you want to secure a steady stream of profit, it's from sources like these.
Just merge the App Store, iTunes Store, and iBook Store into a single iStore goddammit. Can't see the point of 3 stores.
If you think Apple's focus and product quality are already suffering, wait until everyone is moved to this gilded sweatshop. It is going to be a total disaster.
And about those benches. They've already installed them in the satellite cafeteria. They're very pretty and stylish. And everything is bolted to the floor at the ideal distance between table and bench. Guess what happened next? You can't stand up. You have to contort your limbs one at a time to insinuate them into the human-sized slot. Good luck doing that holding a tray. Or if there are other diners close packed on either side. If you're fat or crippled? **** you. Only beautiful perfect valley people are welcome here.
Correction, unifying bad won't help them. With the extremely poor iCloud experience, I wonder if Apple has learned anything other than blame the other support services. Services that seem to be working fine for lots of other folks. With Tim's lack of knowledge about computers, its probably pretty easy for him to understand the internal statements like, "Believe me Tim, Apple software is phenomenal, it was those third party suppliers that were responsible for the problems."
Don't be too excited. Apple Maps has its share of glaring deficiencies -- especially where accurate POI information is concerned.
That would be just be so unapologetically cluttering.
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There's no Clock app so...
Makes me wonder if they've found someone new to replace Eddy Cue (or just shifted him up/out like they did Ive).
A hopeful sign that at least someone there cares about the future of the company instead of just how long can Apple ride the past.
It's pretty plain to see that this hasn't been happening (if one wasn't overly fascinated by simple shiny objects anyway)
A hopeful sign that at least someone there cares about the future of the company instead of just how long can Apple ride the past.
It's pretty plain to see that this hasn't been happening (if one wasn't overly fascinated by simple shiny objects anyway)
Put your tray down on the table before you sit down? Reverse manoeuvre to stand up.
I'm a fan of most things Apple, including their focus on privacy and security of information, but it sucks always looking at Google services and wishing Apple could at least catch up let alone get ahead of what Google offers. At the risk of my own information, I use Google services so much more to the point that Google Pixel looks very enticing. I think one of the main reasons I don't switch is my perception that iOS apps are still a higher quality and more available than anything you can find in the Google Play Store. Maybe that's not even true anymore and I should just switch at this point. Something keeps me with Apple though... maybe it's time I figure out what exactly that is and decide whether it is compelling enough to stay.
Well, Apple use(d) AWS and Google for their own services in conjunction with their own so...
Things really aren't bad. Things aren't really popping, but that's what Google is: a services company where things need to pop. Apple just needs things to work well and they generally do
Apple will likely try to purchase smaller startups to gain talent. It's quite well known in the Bay Area that Google has a substantially more impressive engineering bench, they hire PhD's and Post-Docs who arrive having already moved cutting edge research forward in areas like databases, search, AI, you name it. It will be quite hard to catch up to Google with respect to products like Siri, closing in on being impossible, but I'm more optimistic about the other services.
Siri, itself, doesn't really do anything but send and receive commands through apps. It's not going to do things that the Mac couldn't do before without third party solutions.
About time they started improving these because they're seriously behind everyone. My experience with these services so far:
- The photos from my iPhone take hours or days to sync to my Mac, and about half of them never make it across with no progress bar, no error message, no explanation at all.
- Because of iCloud, there is a duplicate of every single photo I take stored on my iPhone which already hardly has any free storage. Each photo takes up double the storage space for no reason at all.
- If you ever have issues with iCloud, God help you. There are no settings or anything you can fix.
- If you ever turn iCloud off, you will lose all your contacts and all your calendar events. You can't even really restore them from Time Machine, because doing that will turn iCloud back on.
- Maps just can't figure out addresses, simple as that. While Google Maps can solve almost any badly written, incomplete, misspelt address you throw at it, Maps can't even figure out the simplest ones where you made sure everything is correct. Since I can't find most addresses I search for, the whole thing is totally useless.
- Notes take ages to sync, doesn't sync, or creates numerous duplicates across Mac and iPhone.
- Siri is great when it works. But often it takes more time to respond than just doing it manually.]
- The new iTunes is a horror in UI design. Brings back memories from when Skype was redesigned a few years ago.
Every company has to start somewhere. Apple is the "new kid on the block" and have a long way to catch up with Google Maps and perhaps others as well.. But they got to start somewhere. They will always be lacking, compared to Google Maps, even in future.
If you have bought into the Apple ecosystem, as I have, then even with deficiency, I would be quite happy to be used as a guinea pig by Apple Maps so that it can be improved over time.
In August, I was on holiday in States and Canada. I made a journey which started in NY, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Boston, Rhode Island, New Haven and back to NY. Did almost 2500 miles in 3 weeks and used only APPLE MAPS. I was checking local restaurants, on Yelp, etc and then using Apple Maps to get there, without getting lost once ! I was a bit worried, reading all the negative comments I had read about Apple Maps on these forums, but was glad it was much much better then what I had thought it would be.
I think with time & a lot of improvement it will be a good addition to other iOS apps. If you believe in a brand, you got to support it as well.
So yes, I am mildly excited.
All thanks to google.. without their competition this wouldn't be happening