I'm not sure how much of this is Apple getting less coherent in its choices, and how much of it is getting older (I'm not THAT old, though!).
But it just seems more and more to me that decisions made both on the software and hardware side of things simply don't make sense. Some are OS X and Mac specific, some are just on iOS and iPhone/etc. But I think the ones that annoy me the most have to do with the two ecosystems not working the same way for no obvious reason.
Case in point. I updated to iOS 9.3 on my iPhone yesterday. To do this, I went to Settings > General > Software Update. Not too bad.
Today, I went on my Mac to update to OS X 10.11.4. First of all, Settings is called System Preferences on the Mac. But you don't go there. You go to the App Store and click on Updates.
Why would this be the case? Why not have updates be the same on both OSes? For me it's just an annoyance, but I know people who this sort of thing trips them up and they actually can't get the task accomplished on one or the other (and so I have to explain it to them).
Another example, to start a new paragraph in Messages on iOS, you hit return. In OS X, you have to hit Control+return. What possible reason could there be for this? You could say maybe someone who's writing more than one paragraph in a text message shouldn't be, but then why have it at all?
Certainly someone at Apple uses both a Mac and an iPhone and has thought about one or both of these things and said, hey, why aren't those the same? And yet, these things persist and it seems like more of them pop up (like with password-protected notes, which is more different than it needs to be between the two systems).
Are there other similar things that bug people? If yes, what comes to mind? If not, then get off my lawn!
But it just seems more and more to me that decisions made both on the software and hardware side of things simply don't make sense. Some are OS X and Mac specific, some are just on iOS and iPhone/etc. But I think the ones that annoy me the most have to do with the two ecosystems not working the same way for no obvious reason.
Case in point. I updated to iOS 9.3 on my iPhone yesterday. To do this, I went to Settings > General > Software Update. Not too bad.
Today, I went on my Mac to update to OS X 10.11.4. First of all, Settings is called System Preferences on the Mac. But you don't go there. You go to the App Store and click on Updates.
Why would this be the case? Why not have updates be the same on both OSes? For me it's just an annoyance, but I know people who this sort of thing trips them up and they actually can't get the task accomplished on one or the other (and so I have to explain it to them).
Another example, to start a new paragraph in Messages on iOS, you hit return. In OS X, you have to hit Control+return. What possible reason could there be for this? You could say maybe someone who's writing more than one paragraph in a text message shouldn't be, but then why have it at all?
Certainly someone at Apple uses both a Mac and an iPhone and has thought about one or both of these things and said, hey, why aren't those the same? And yet, these things persist and it seems like more of them pop up (like with password-protected notes, which is more different than it needs to be between the two systems).
Are there other similar things that bug people? If yes, what comes to mind? If not, then get off my lawn!