All Things Mac/ Apple
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Yesterday I fucking hated it, today I'm liking it.
Obstacles are stepping-stones
That guide us to our goals. Fences are filters That purify our souls. -
It grows, but some of the animations are just weird to me and I will never like the iconography and palette. But those aren't that big a deal.
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iOS 7 is growing on me. Tapatalk is now an abomination.
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Anyone else not seeing weather in notification center? Two of is stateside have this issue and no way to fix it.
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I'm seeing weather on my iPad (official ios7 release), but not my iPhone (pre-release hack of final version).
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I was seeing the weather last night right after I upgraded. It's not there this morning.
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It looks from screen shots like the weather is textual instead of graphical. That's a bad idea IMO. At this point I would take it though.
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I'm still just getting the date and the stock ticker (I turned the calendar view off). No weather info.
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I don't mind textual weather, but for Canada I've always found the Weather Network app better than the Yahoo feed that Apple uses.
Had to restore my iPad to factory to fix the Push Notifications issue. Irritating, because my home computer is so f'd that I had to bring it to work to do it there.
White plastic Macbooks do not last forever.
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Picked up a 5s in my lunch break today. Line was deceptively longer than it looked. Snaked around the block then 3 different queues inside the Apple Store. Got heckled at a few times by people touting Nokia and Samsungs (lol).
Coming from a 4s it's a beautiful step up. The Touch ID works awesomely working 1st time nearly every time, and the habit is already ingrained after a few hours.
I don't really use Notification Center, but am enjoying Control Center a lot (another reason for the purchase).
All apps transferred across flawlessly, as expected, but always nice.
I'll try get some photos out from/of it tomorrow.
1st impressions tho is a great upgrade. So much clearer/cleaner.
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Oh and related, both WHITE AND GOLD were sold out today!
Double Related, quite a few people were trying to buy more than 2-3 photos and the security guards/staff were kicking them out as having already bought their share for the day. The 'customers' in some cases kept arguing that their friends needed them so they should get more than 2. AMAZING.
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I'm kind of worried about Apple. I thought Jobs and still the culture that would carry them through, but there are some seriously big problems with iOS 7 in my opinion.
I've been patiently waiting for them to get their ass in gear on services, and now that services and user interface are in decline I'm very worried
One thing in there that's a microcosm I think is some changes that they made the music app.
First they got rid of the little airplay icon; they force you to go into control center to use that functionality. This is a pointless regression, and it goes against culturally what Apple would've done in the past. Worse than this, is when you're navigating through your music and you reorient your phone from portrait to landscape the system assumes that you want to look at the last played albums playlist instead of changing the view (cover flow in iOS 6 for example). This to my recollection is the first time in the history of an apple iOS app that it has not changed the way that it renders based on orientation but changed in fact what you're doing based on orientation. The natural affordance for rotating a device is to change your view, unless you're in a game and it becomes steering or something. The reason Apple iOS is so intuitive that a toddler or a tribal child who has never seen a computer can figure it out in seconds is that they have historically adhered app behavior to natural affordances.This does not bode well for Apple. I know this sounds trivial, but I've use these as philosophical rifts. Jony Ive needs to reread the Design of Everyday Things.
Just because Apple has a market share and prestige similar to BMW doesn't mean that they need to mimic the awful ergonomics.
I know this sounds nitpicky, but picking nits is how the late Micromanager-in-Chief made Apple what it is… Or perhaps was.
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Ordered a 5s today from apple, figured it is time to upgrade the 4… Had it long enough, hope it doesn't disappoint.
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The hardware is incredible, the fingerprint reader alone makes it compelling.
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Oddly enough, the fingerprint was the main thing giving me reservations for more reasons than privacy… I just hope it does not have issues with going out; however I do like that if it works they may have solved the "home" button issue that has been the demise of all my other iPhones
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I am somewhat confident that the scanner is secure; biometric data is stored on the SoC and it does not emit the data for verification…
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MCL, I think your analysis of the Music app not so much as nitpicking, but looking at the devil in the detail. It's the canary in the coalmine if anything.
The build hardware of the 5s is flawless, Touch ID works 99 times out of 100 on my first attempt. Parallax works and makes icons float. The stock iOS7 icons in hyper colour tho, I just don't get. Ive must have been smoking some good shit when those decisions were made. My gut feel on iOS7 is that it's been rushed to the market. Not due to bugs, but corners were cut to ensure no bugs. I think 7.1 in a few months time will fix a lot of these regressions.
I subscribe to the philosophy that Cook had been running the show for a long time. There's quite a new senior team that's come into power/merged roles in the last year, I think they'll iron out the small kinks over coming releases.
As long as the hardware remains kick ass, the OS is responsive and stable, I'll keep with it.
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Agreed on Cook operationally, but it remains to be seen if the Tastemaker-in-chief and his protege, the man who created iOS in the first place Mr. Forstall, were essential to Apple's continued success.
A very cheap blow, mind you, it's more consistent than Mr Hyper Colour…