> 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.

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FabHK 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In other words, even for Apple, Harlow's razor applies...

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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?

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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.