My friends that praise Linux as the next big thing, or Android, and state an open-source world will be the death of Apple, are all geeks and coders.
Every time they rave about some obscure program or project, I ask them, “Would you recommend that device over an iPhone, to your grandmother?”

My simple question invariably produces stuttering and spluttering.

No bias either! I think Google is getting better at Gadget design. But I don’t see how Apple is messing up Internet services. They work flawlessly for me.

Note: Please do not argue that Google is using plastic, hence it is terrible. It really does not matter what the unibody is made of. Plastic is not bad. Aluminum does give it a more attractive feel though. But the advantage of plastic is it does not get scratched easily, compared to aluminum. But they can both get damaged. So, no arguement a about that please.

I second whoever here mentioned not being able to merge accounts. How annoying is this! I have 2 which was the result of getting a 2nd created unknowingly when I got MM and now it followed me to iCloud. Totally stupid and IMHO. Not only confusing for users but why on earth wouldn’t Apple want one centralized account for each customer for faster management?

And while minor, we should be able to change our nickname in our profile that shows in Discussions. We can change our avatar but not text? Dumb.

Other than these, and Apple gear is too expensive competitively, I’ve been a loyal evangelist since my Mac SE in 1985. I sure hope Google doesn’t take over as this perhaps sour grapes ex-employee states. I’d love to know the nature of his departure. Quit? Fired? Why in either case?

Should apples Internet services improve faster? Yes. Is Apple doomed? Not on the basis of these inane arguments.

That’s a dead giveaway that he’s a pig-ignorant loudmouth. WebObjects is still under active development, but the latest code is only available for internal use at Apple.

WebObjects runs the biggest music store in the world, and one of the largest online retailing operations, too. Apple sticks with WebObjects for the same reason that they stick with UNIX: there’s nothing better to choose from. Ruby on Rails is modeled on WebObjects (and not very well, I might add).

I know from first-hand experience that you have no idea what you’re talking about.

I wrote financial software on NeXT systems in Objective-C for Salomon Brothers, JP Morgan, UBS/Warburg, and Phibro energy’s trading department, and friends of mine worked on trading systems for First Chicago, Swissbank, and many other major financial customers. In all of these applications, the absolute rule that could never be broken was that the system must NEVER go down during the trading session.

-jcr

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They actually love apple, they’re just pissed off that they aren’t part of the elite anymore.

It’s a marketing tactic to create demand for their latest products.

And it works!

If you’ve read anything about the quality specifications for Mastered for iTunes you would realize that Mastered for iTunes music is almost certainly of higher overall quality when compared with standard CDs that have been issued over the last three decades. The vast majority of those CDs were not reencoded and/or resampled for the CD. They were direct transfers from the original recordings which were created for vinyl.

And while vinyl clearly is able to capture higher frequencies and truer waveforms than Mastered for iTunes music or any other digital music for that matter, it too has limitations. Vinyl recordings typically have limited dynamic range because the music must be compressed otherwise the needle would jump out of the groove. Vinyl also suffers from wow & flutter and possible noise or static due to dust, damage and general wear.

Mastered for iTunes is not perfect by any means. But compared to what else is out there, it’s pretty damn good.

For example would you want a person infatuated with building device drivers heading up development for a mission critical financial transaction system?

And are you seriously judging programming languages based on how new they are? Really?

Java is newer than Obj-C, sure, but it also sucks about a thousand times harder – and neither of them are even fit to wipe C’s ass. Which started out in the 60′s.

Newness != quality.

2. Safari is as much a joke as all of the other web functions. To keep it from being jerky, loading slow or not at all (a waaaay too common complaint if you cruise support.apple.com), and with absolutely no help from anyone from Apple, online or in the stores (one “Genius” suggested repairing permissions!), I have uncovered 2 effective solutions to speed up your Safari in Lion and Mountain Lion… well, as close as I could get it to Snow Leopard. Nonetheless, it’s still a bit slower and jerkier than what I am accustomed to seeing.

In System Preferences > Network > Ethernet > Advanced… > Hardware > Change “Configure” to Manual and the “MTU” to Custom at 1300. (This allows your Mac to send and receive the data in smaller, easier to handle, chunks.)

We’re not done yet…

To the left of the “Hardware” button, click on “DNS”. Under “DNS Servers”, add
2001:4860:4860::8888
(all on one line, double-colons and all) to the list. You may copy/paste it. Then drag it so it is at the top of the list. (This is the newer style IPv6 address. I can only assume it is quick because very few people are using IPv6.)

Click “OK” then “Apply”.

Go to the other devices in the left column and fix their DNS addresses, too. (Only Ethernet has the MTU adjustment.)

Click “OK” then “Apply”.

Although technically not necessary, restart your Mac and see if the changes are still there. Then open Safari to see if it downloads webpages any faster. I have not tested it with other internet functions.

I’m no “Genius” and my solutions may not help everyone (3 out of 3 friends think it’s a huge improvement), bit it’s a far cry better than waiting an hour in a crowded stuffy store for someone to suggest “repair permissions”.

Jeopardy Answer: Two ways a computer tech can tell a customer to go away.

Jeopardy Question: What is Microsoft’s “Reinstall Windows” and Apple’s “Repair Permissions”?

On the other hand, Apple has brought us other products and software which has been groundbreaking/successful in new ways of using the Internet… Such as the iTunes Store, App Store, Apple TV, etc…

I think the frustration may come from not having full fledged Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/ competitive Internet services in the Apple ecosystem.

This has been fine as the services are freely available elsewhere, but problematic when Apple begins to bring them in-house, like Maps. This will all improve over time as Apple builds out, but in the meantime it will feel like Apple isn’t as competitive in these areas. It’s all about being able to leverage other online service offerings as opposed to just being able to leverage other products in the ecosystem.

Safari tells me frequently that I need to refresh all my windows to load a new one… WTF?

Mountain Lion is a celebrated clusterfuck… Anybody Save As, like stab you in the eye!

iOS insist on being a naughty baby and says, you can’t play with more than one toy at a time.

Do I need to continue?