You’ve just excused bad design, not explained “you just don’t understand tech”. The OS is literally excluded from indexing, and the OS is the only thing changed by an OS update. Work it out.
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I’m not confused. Everyone is excusing tech sucking all across the board.
Garbage tech has become hyper-normalized. Across the board. Every company. The state of humanity’s computing tech should be embarrassing, but almost everyone has been successfully conditioned to respond with “this is fine”.
Your mind is already made up and my facts aren't going to change it so we're done here.
weird there goes that theory. I guess it was a short lived release or security only update from 15.6.1
Maybe major updates once per every two years, and half as many unnecessary changes… with a focus on optimization and bug fixes.
He had a lot of serious flaws, but his rule over Apple definitely resulted in better attention to detail. That’s what I miss.
Apple terminated my high expectations around the 2013 product releases. Little has gotten better, much has gotten worse. I stay because they’re the least bad choice, not the superior choice.
I can give project managers one bit of flex: executives above them are likely brainwashed into Wall Street’s perpetual gains pathology. If the company leadership won’t refuse to be pathological, nobody below them can do a good job for the customer.
The leadership at the top doesn’t really care about the product or the customer, if they’re playing Wall Street games. It’s visible in merely using the product regularly. Executives either don’t use the products themselves (relying on executive assistants), or barely utilize anything in them… or they just plain don’t give a damn about anything other than their own personal finances.
As an engineer I can say that making accurate estimates is hard, really really hard. We tend to underestimate work, even knowing this. Obviously that clashes with set or unrealistic deadlines. This is why there have been so many attempts at finding better development and management practices over the decades, and e.g. better tools/languages like Swift and Rust are introduced that attempts to eliminate memory issues that can take forever to reproduce and debug.
Everything about development and management is a cornucopia of uncertainties clashing with market windows and there's no easy solution.
You sound like you don’t like to be rushed 🤣
I don’t either.
Tell me, why do you think iOS and iPhone used to be so polished and clean experience?
Because it shouldn’t be this way. Normalizing it with “you should know now not to update when the public release comes out” is illogical, but Wall Street loves that tech geeks will help them maintain their pathology via this anti-user rhetoric.
Let's hope the 16.1 fixes a lot of the bugs. I don't notice any these things, but it's good to know it could always improve.
One tactic, though not a total solution, is to not participate in Wall Street and “investor” pathology in the first place. But Wall Street pathology has strangled all markets, strangled the economy, and claims the term “economy” for itself.
The only way to exit is for leadership at major corporations to remove their corporations from Wall Street entirely and let the stock market die. Buy back all the shares, delist, move on. Since most leadership is composed of the very same mindsets that drive the Wall Street pathology, it’ll never happen by the will of laissez-faire capitalism itself.
They’ve left things such that “the only way to participate is to further the disease”. It’s clearly unsustainable, but capitalizing the gains and socializing the losses keeps the top holders going, and ensures the continued subsidizing of a fundamentally unworkable system.
You’re right; I hate being rushed. 👍🏽
iOS used to be fairly self-explanatory, most functions were easily discoverable; controls obvious. There was less complexity, both in feature set and design, and the features that were included were generally well executed (definitely better execution compared to today).
There were problems, but they stood out. Crashing Mail and erasing my work in progress was an egregious fault with adding a system clipboard. Now there are so many broken things that it’s just overwhelming. Legitimate complaints are replied to with the “you want perfection” strawman and people cover their ears & eyes and move on.
One of the biggest changes that brought it all crashing down was Jony Ive deciding that the entire UI needed to be re-skinned to eliminate something that he has personal, illogical, and arbitrary hate attached to: skeumorphism. We don’t need green felt backgrounds or wood grain. We do need controls that look like manipulable objects. Enough UI experts have explained this, but people don’t like experts, because… reasons.
The reporting (books??) was that Ive put the print design department on the task, not the existing GUI experts already in the company. His obvious obsession with minimalism, and therefore approval of the flat design fad, was clearly the guidance for the new look.
There’s so much wrong with hiding or minimizing controls. Not only are they hard to intuit (we tech people have adjusted by tapping, clicking, swiping, and holding on literally everything to see if that accomplishes something, but we are not normal people anymore), they’re hard to operate (I constantly encounter controls whose hit targets are only as big as a single character, taking multiple taps to activate), and the control might fail to be available at all because of a state change bug (rollover triggering visibility of controls in Mail on macOS are a good example).
While certain new gestures were added that are working fine for their own tasks, some are the only way to do a thing, aren’t obvious to users, and many of them conflict with others (one of my most irritating conflicts is swiping gestures on the keyboard to do a quick number or capital letter: it brings up the control center on phone with a home button, which Apple consider a lesser product, therefore not worth solving).
Some of the 2013 changes demonstrate an absolute failure of knowledge about GUI design and conventions. The multiple-select mode is inconsistent across iOS, with the most frequent implementation being one that doesn’t actually allow multiple objects to be selected at once, for a mass deletion, for example. While this has been addressed in a few egregious cases, it was done very late (multiple major OS releases later), and the basic GUI API clearly wasn’t fixed (the UI for manual deletion of specific Safari history keeps moving backwards, with iOS 15 making it even clumsier, and the editing of the advanced Safari settings with the UI to delete stored content hasn’t changed whatsoever).
I could go on and on, but this is not the thread topic. Suffice to say that a lot of nice and even useful things have been added to iOS and Mac OS since the golden era, but their execution is poor, especially in integration with existing functionality, and they tend to be left unfinished. Beta quality, is where so much of the features are stuck (Siri is how old, and still has no apparent concept of working memory/context sensitivity; how long has swiping-to-type existed, and yet it still lacks context sensitivity, and swiping completely breaks when a notification pops up; or just the whole keyboard and autocorrect in general), and it’s because because Apple moves on to the next new features to promote the next new hardware release EVERY DAMNED YEAR. There’s no time dedicated to optimizing and correcting the tons of beta-quality features already there, and now they’re even announcing features for new major OS revisions, even when they know those features won’t be available until later revisions.
It’s pathological.
The ethos of Apple dramatically shifted from “insanely great products” to “insanely large profits”, and most people seem to not be willing to acknowledge this, even while being abused by their preferred products… probably because Apple products are still the least abusive of their users. “Less bad” is not superior. While it might generally be “the death of a thousand paper cuts”, rather than daily apocalypses, the joy which Apple operating systems used to allow is now long gone. I feel like Apple replaced my joy with Microsoft Windows misery.