| There's a pretty big difference between embedded devices and high-end, general-purpose devices. Apple is very much the latter. Outside specific areas (like cell signal/etc) they are not constrained by hardware to the point that it inevitably impacts software quality—and the complaints people have are not about the parts of the software that are constrained! As far as I know, everybody is actually totally happy with Apple's wireless stack, power management and so on. Now, is it possible that Apple's software issues are proximally caused by production pressure? Absolutely. That's almost definitely a major contributor. But the production pressure is not inherent to their device business; it's a choice the organization, collectively, makes. |
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| ▲ | kenferry 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is bonkers take. If you read this article, the author is basically saying “the way this worked before was very opaque and probably almost no one figured it out, but _I_ knew how it worked, and so the change is bad for me”. Do they have a good point that they have a valid use case? Yes. Do they have the only use case? No. Did Apple do this to try to make things better? Yes. That doesn’t make them “evil”, that makes them trying to make things better. | | |
| ▲ | MichaelZuo 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No. Flat out removing a functionality that is 100% certain to be critical to many without any way of regaining it via any combination of features found on the iPad… And without any notice whatsoever, and with no way to downgrade back, gets pretty close to flat out evil. Don’t try to talk out of both sides of your mouth. Even if they clownishly made it more buried and difficult to find under a dozen submenus… it would still be much less bad in comparison. (If they never advertised or implied the iPad as being suitable for presentations, education, etc., then that have lessened the severity, but clearly that’s not the case) |
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| ▲ | azinman2 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Whoever made this decision in Apple seems pretty close to flat out evil. Could not be further from the truth. Let’s stop such nasty hate for the most minor of things; there are lots of choices one makes when designing software / interfaces / hardware and not every edge case is immediately apparent. Disclosure: I work at Apple. I also had nothing to do with this change. | | |
| ▲ | FabHK 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In other words, even for Apple, Harlow's razor applies... | |
| ▲ | MichaelZuo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Even though it’s one step removed from literal sabotage, there’s no angle I can see that would render it just a “minor thing”. It effectively makes it useless for anyone where not showing the presenter’s screen content was critically important. Unless you know of some alternative method? | | |
| ▲ | dualvariable 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I doubt anyone at Apple was sitting in a meeting and was like, "I hated all my teachers in school, let's make it impossible for them to use iPads as presentation devices", and then everyone else agreed with them. | | |
| ▲ | sleepybrett 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's also quite possible that there is new under-documneted and opaque way to do what the teacher wants to do. |
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| ▲ | zamadatix 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think they understand the problem, it's just not as dire a thing to see to the rest of us as you seem to feel. It's easy to be outraged about everything, it's hard for everyone to do everything right 100% of the time for use cases most have never even heard of. (I don't work at Apple). |
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| ▲ | nekusar 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >> Whoever made this decision in Apple seems pretty close to flat out evil. > Could not be further from the truth. Let’s stop such nasty hate for the most minor of things; there are lots of choices one makes when designing software / interfaces / hardware and not every edge case is immediately apparent. > Disclosure: I work at Apple. I also had nothing to do with this change. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair | | |
| ▲ | mikestew 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | What a stupid (and unnecessarily ad hominem) take. OP’s salary very much depends on understanding when their company produces crap. |
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