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Auto Boot is a sign of Tim Cook's mediocrity
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By “PC” this also means the Mac.
He was talking about the traditional, file system based computer.
Apple could probably address this "issue" in firmware.
Perhaps a system settings pane with the following choices:
- automatically boot when lid is opened (as it does now)
- boot when any key pressed (but not automatically when opening lid)
- boot ONLY when the finger/ID button is pressed (the "old way")
That would satisfy nearly everyone, I reckon.
Perhaps a system settings pane with the following choices:
- automatically boot when lid is opened (as it does now)
- boot when any key pressed (but not automatically when opening lid)
- boot ONLY when the finger/ID button is pressed (the "old way")
That would satisfy nearly everyone, I reckon.
I bought a couple of these adapters during the USB-A to USB-C transition, and leave one plugged into my M1 Macbook Air all the time for its status indicator light. When it's on the Mac is on, and occasionally it doesn't hurt to have a USB-A adapter handy:
I need the light because I switch between different versions of macOS by shutting the Mac down, then holding the power button to get to the Startup Options screen...without the light, it's hard to know if the Mac is fully shut down and ready to be rebooted, and if you hold the button before it's properly shut down, you end up force-shutting down the Mac yourself accidentally
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I need the light because I switch between different versions of macOS by shutting the Mac down, then holding the power button to get to the Startup Options screen...without the light, it's hard to know if the Mac is fully shut down and ready to be rebooted, and if you hold the button before it's properly shut down, you end up force-shutting down the Mac yourself accidentally
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Wow....did your pour soured milk on your Sugar Frosted Flakes today? It takes a special obsession to continue to deride a CEO to the extent you do over a feature that has been in place for a long time. It's not healthy, just like the soured milk.
Have you tried the easily located online change that can be made to turn off the behavior ?
Have you tried the easily located online change that can be made to turn off the behavior ?
This though is what made Apple so great. Attention to detail. Apple is losing that part of it's product.i think that'd be the last thing the CEO of a $4T company would concern himself with.
also unsure which category this thread belongs in -
the picking of nits or the splitting of hairs …
Autoboot is a sign of attention to detail
That’s how they want it to work
You can still turn it off if you don’t like it
I wish my problems were so little that you go on a rant about a slightly annoying problem and treat it like the end of the world.
Steve Jobs was not a fan of trucks, though.
The first trucks Apple released were after he’d left (Macintosh II’s). And, the first thing introduced after he returned was also not a truck (iMac). I think he knew he was on his way out and he had already informed the folks after him to make their own decisions and not try to do what they thought he would have done. He was simply being diplomatic at D8. “Is it the iPad? Who knows?” from the person that seemed to have an uncanny ability to be where the puck is going to be over and over again?
Apple has always had Nanny issues - thinks it knows what users should have without asking them about it. Often with - ahem...less-than-perfect...results.
As for '...a sign of Tim Cook's mediocrity...', I thought that was when he donated $1mil to the most recent Trump Inauguration Committee.
As for '...a sign of Tim Cook's mediocrity...', I thought that was when he donated $1mil to the most recent Trump Inauguration Committee.
I'm very amused by the people who want to block this thread or get almost offended that someone cares about a detail. Apple is all about the details and what separates them from other companies, in my eyes. For example, the one thing that will make me never buy an iPhone is how much slower it is to choose the space between two letters when you want to correct a word. I don't need a magnifier to find that, in Android I just press and 99,9% of the times it hits the right spot.
Details matter.
Details matter.
I’m not sure anyone wants to block the thread
In this case it’s not about a lack of detail. It is a focus on detail that when you open a laptop it just turns on without also having to hit the power button
OP just doesn’t like this design choice
And, as has been pointed out multiple times, one can simply disable this feature if they want
So it truly is a non issue
Typing on iPhones is an entirely different topic, though in that case you can just press between letters to put the cursor there, or you can hold to bring up the magnifier if you need to correct.
Maybe you haven’t typed on one in awhile?
I’d call that attention to detail as well
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I counted at least one who wanted to put this thread on his ignore list. I didn't mean lock when I said block so I was a bit unclear. 🫣
OP clearly described why it's an issue even if there's a good reason behind it.
"Simply" meant going into the terminal according to OP. Which I wouldn't call simply. If there was a simple setting in Settings I'd agree.
I'm just going by how my iPad Pro on iPadOS 18 does it. If I press on a word the marker goes either to the beginning or end of the word. If I want to correct it I have to hold to get the magnifier. But maybe there's a setting for that I have missed?
Having a problem with how a feature operates is not an ignore list trigger. However, claiming a pet-peeve (which is a non-issue to most users) as an indicator of the “mediocrity” of one of the objectively best CEOs in history is.
on my phone I need only press for a moment
in order to get it to the beginning or end of the word I have to very quickly tap and release as quickly as possible
I think we just have different way of interacting with touch screens...
Yeah, I might be more used to my Android phone where I just quickly tap. It's not a big thing in the grand scheme of things, but now that I've grown accustomed of it I can't really go back. Especially as that's a big part of my phone usage. I can overlook it on my iPad though.