I'm a somewhat new Apple convert, starting with an 09 Mac Pro in early 2012, then a 3rd gen iPad then an iPhone 5... to now owning a 2013 Mac Pro, 2015 MBP, (my wife has a '16 on order), 2x Apple TVs, watches, latest phones, iPad Pro, etc. We're Apple fans, we even try to get our friends and family to use them and show them the cool integrations and ease of use.
I've even changed careers and became an iOS developer. I attended WWDC this past June. It was an incredible life change, I wanted to be part of making the future.
Lately, things have been turning a bit for me. Not only am I not as quick to recommend an Apple solution to a friend, family member or anyone but I'm wondering myself what would switching platforms be like.
My major concerns with Apple are that it seems as if innovation has halted, updates are gimmicks and quality has suffered across every product category I own.
On a daily basis:
- My LG thunderbolt display doesn't always wake up
- I have to use adapters everywhere with my iPhone (headphones at home whenever the phone rings, music + charging in the car)
- The Apple Watch is too slow to be useful for some things (like apps, I find I use it for weather and whatever info faces can give me)
- I already bought my wife several adapters to use with her new Mac Book, that we now fear will have video issues (it's a BTO with the 4GB video card because she's a video editor primarily using Adobe products) once it arrives
- On a daily basis Xcode's Source Kit crashes (many Xcode issues that other IDEs don't suffer from)
- The new track pad sucks when using two fingers to select things
- No boot logo on my Mac Pro b/c my display uses multiple streams and Apple hasn't updated their firmware (not once)
- 4th gen Apple TV crashes very often and needs to be reset (light doesn't show, remote stops working, interface freezes), this did not happen until the new tvOS. Sometimes I can't get into settings
- My local Apple Store is a nightmare, the people there don't give an F about anything and take forever to even retrieve an online pickup order of minor accessories (this may just be b*tching and moaning but almost 15 minutes for a keyboard, belkin adapter and thunderbolt 3/2 adapter). I did a self checkout for an additional accessory in less than a minute.
Obviously there is a lot I am able to accomplish on a daily basis and most features are incredible compared to the past but no longer compared to the competition.
The one thing that never seems to fail and is my last device that I just use and don't think about is the iPad Pro. It used to be that I would use all this great Apple stuff and not really think about it, now I think I'm frustrated or annoyed multiple times on a daily basis by tools that are supposed to just exist in the background so I can do what I want to do with them.
I'm thinking about switching. I guess it'd be back to android for mobile and windows for desktop. I'd have to use some type of remote software to my work Mac Book for Xcode I guess and switch my music and photo storage. Before I get into that, which probably isn't as tough or exhausting as I think it is, I wanted to ask you longer time Apple fans, has there been other times like this? Maybe throughout the 00s? Something not as drastic as the almost death spiral of the 90s?
I want to hope it's just a flash in the pan and that soon we'll go back to things just working (especially for the money...).
I've even changed careers and became an iOS developer. I attended WWDC this past June. It was an incredible life change, I wanted to be part of making the future.
Lately, things have been turning a bit for me. Not only am I not as quick to recommend an Apple solution to a friend, family member or anyone but I'm wondering myself what would switching platforms be like.
My major concerns with Apple are that it seems as if innovation has halted, updates are gimmicks and quality has suffered across every product category I own.
On a daily basis:
- My LG thunderbolt display doesn't always wake up
- I have to use adapters everywhere with my iPhone (headphones at home whenever the phone rings, music + charging in the car)
- The Apple Watch is too slow to be useful for some things (like apps, I find I use it for weather and whatever info faces can give me)
- I already bought my wife several adapters to use with her new Mac Book, that we now fear will have video issues (it's a BTO with the 4GB video card because she's a video editor primarily using Adobe products) once it arrives
- On a daily basis Xcode's Source Kit crashes (many Xcode issues that other IDEs don't suffer from)
- The new track pad sucks when using two fingers to select things
- No boot logo on my Mac Pro b/c my display uses multiple streams and Apple hasn't updated their firmware (not once)
- 4th gen Apple TV crashes very often and needs to be reset (light doesn't show, remote stops working, interface freezes), this did not happen until the new tvOS. Sometimes I can't get into settings
- My local Apple Store is a nightmare, the people there don't give an F about anything and take forever to even retrieve an online pickup order of minor accessories (this may just be b*tching and moaning but almost 15 minutes for a keyboard, belkin adapter and thunderbolt 3/2 adapter). I did a self checkout for an additional accessory in less than a minute.
Obviously there is a lot I am able to accomplish on a daily basis and most features are incredible compared to the past but no longer compared to the competition.
The one thing that never seems to fail and is my last device that I just use and don't think about is the iPad Pro. It used to be that I would use all this great Apple stuff and not really think about it, now I think I'm frustrated or annoyed multiple times on a daily basis by tools that are supposed to just exist in the background so I can do what I want to do with them.
I'm thinking about switching. I guess it'd be back to android for mobile and windows for desktop. I'd have to use some type of remote software to my work Mac Book for Xcode I guess and switch my music and photo storage. Before I get into that, which probably isn't as tough or exhausting as I think it is, I wanted to ask you longer time Apple fans, has there been other times like this? Maybe throughout the 00s? Something not as drastic as the almost death spiral of the 90s?
I want to hope it's just a flash in the pan and that soon we'll go back to things just working (especially for the money...).