Apple basically remote-bricked my 2yo Watch. Since December the battery drain is so bad that the Watch became useless. Lasts about 3 hours. There are several discussion threads [1,2] where many users have the same problem, even with the latest Ultra models.
Apple's leadership is so hypocritical it's disgusting. They make a cringe video [3] about environmental efforts while they waste so much energy and deteriorate so many batteries with their broken software.
Apple's discussions website(what was linked to) is not how you get Apple's attention. Apple makes it pretty clear they don't do anything with the discussions website other than make it available for users to support each other.
If you read the words Apple uses when they talk about it, yes. I can't help it that most people don't bother to read them. I'm sure Apple is fine with it though, as it lowers their support costs.
Even if you didn't bother to read the words, the fact that no-one from Apple ever says anything there should make it pretty clear if one ever thought about it.
I used to submit a lot of radars (now Feedback). At some point there was very little effort from their side, no responses, annoying replies wanting to get everything served on a silver platter, just no appreciation of us devs. It’s a give and take. With such attitude I’m not willing to do free QA work.
As an example, I can write "notifications animation corner smoothing glitch" and honestly it's hard for me how one cannot know exactly what I mean. This bug has been introduced in iOS 16. Why would I waste my time making a screen recording etc. when something so obvious doesn't get picked up internally
There are so many glitches with that screen I’m not sure which one you’re talking about.
I mean sometimes my keyboard doesn’t even show up on the login screen on iOS.
The Messages one where the share tray share to iMessage and then can’t send is infuriating.
And once in a blue moon desktop Messages glitches where typing on the keyboard is actually changing the text in the conversant’s most recent chat bubble. I have NEVER seen anything like it.
They are in denial that their OS frameworks are a disaster, and that they should have adopted a safer, managed more productive SDK and language for iOS UI apps.
I think Spotify is still quite good overall. They sometimes make very bad UI decisions. But the latest home screen desaster (of huge, almost full-screen size tiles) was luckily already rolled back.
My main gripe is that it carves overly deep channels around what I've listened to before. For discovering new music I find Shazam more valuable. I wish Spotify had some clever randomness.
A good example are Tarantino soundtracks with songs from all over the genre landscape. I've never seen Spotify create playlists like that.
When staying within a genre the autoplay can be amazing though.
Apple is pretending weight doesn't matter. They're all clunkers, even the "Air", once you add the keyboard.
My old 12" iPad Pro with the Smart Cover is still lighter than any of the new combos and yet it's heavy compared to certain Android tablets of the same size.
They're awfully heavy for a device that I treat like a dynamic book.
There's "not marketing as well" and "not even trying to sell their product". Clairefontaine is the latter. Their website is an utter mess. I attempted to find A5 notebooks and even when filtering to the theoretical dimensions (148x210) most of the results are A4.
