I HATE APPLE

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The very existence of this ad⁠—all the hoops it had to go through in its creation before getting to the point where it was personally promoted by this CEO, all the people who thought 'yes, this is good'—says more than thousands of words could about how tech sees the world. https://t.co/tMrfrzsJ0n

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 8, 2024

there's even a little animated character that looks up in horror and then is presumably crushed??

Hasn't Apple's attitude toward creative people been "We will crush you and you will thank us" for like two decades at this point? It certainly feels that way, and it's not like I'm gonna stop using their products.

i always thought i'd find it impossibble to pivot away from using their products but my wife has successfully managed to do it relatively painlessly and i think i will try to follow her lead. awful, awful company.

no it's been "here's to the dreamers" and everybody's cool and boppin around and expressing their own unique bohemian identities via apple products. apple famously said their mission isn't to make great computers it's to change the world. i mean whatever their mission is obviously to make a shitload of money but this ad is just a leeeetle bit inconsistent

xpost

really wonder if apple will turn into a kodak in our lifetime

they'll reach the 90s lows again until someone unveils the Futurama-style cryogenically preserved and reanimated Steve Jobs floating head

I could give up my iPhone for one of the clean Android phones but that's really just trading uncontrollable diarrhea for uncontrollable vomiting. Windows is a vast and baffling world, whenever I set a new one up for something I have to disable even more (Microsoft, not even third party) bloatware and garbage than with new Macs.

Maybe Linux nerds have been on to something this whole time.

feel like they could have done a better version of the crush ad by just crushing some apple desktops or macbooks. maybe crush tim cook too. but that'd be bad for the other apple products!

crush u2

(The band)

Ha, I love it. But I'll watch hydraulic crush videos for hours already.

they're very popular!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPh64MGfcBM

I saw someone point out they could make this a good advert by playing it in reverse.

Finally a replacement for "Lemmings" as the worst Apple ad ever.

Marques Brownlee reviews the new iPad, says...it's an iPad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0MGehwWvE

Read max had a good piece on that guy as the last tech blogger this week.

I’m old and only recently noticed him but it’s nice to see someone who’s on the reviews beat who isn’t epic bacon or a weirdo devotee. Just letting me know if things work and are worth my time

i liked that iPad review, seemed pretty honest and not overly dramatic
and, thankfully he stuck the product placement at the very end

Finally a replacement for "Lemmings" as the worst Apple ad ever.

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 4:12 PM (yesterday)

Apple agrees...

https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/technology/apple-ipad-ad-crush-apology.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crush-ad-criticism-1235895327/

lol

I hate apple

In fairness, if an apple critic made that ad, I'd be thumbs up, so really can't fault apple for coming up with it first.

rip https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321

“In fairness” are you really putting the customer on equal footing with apple corporation

Fourteen years ago, many members of another community I was involved with saw the iPad as a huge innovation. For me, I felt that it was simply a consumption device to sell more content from the App Store.

I win.

Conclusive

I hate Apple and I don't think I've ever bought any of their products, but I can see what they were trying to do with the ad and it's actually quite funny how literally it sums up what the smartphone is right now, culturally and technically. I'd say it's a bad ad because it provides no illusion, just an uncomfortable brutal truth. Making music, films, pictures, drawing... what isn't done on the iPhone ?

I barely touch an actual laptop or desktop outside of work and do pretty much everything at home on my iPad. Tablet good imo

Don't feel like scrolling up to see if the following two things have already been mentioned:
1) the fact that there is no default installer so you have to use something like
homebrew
2) the fact that there are often old or acient versions of things there by default, especially bash, but even Pythoon

Heh at misspelling

It’s quite terrifying how even a small amount of tinkering can lead to a proliferation of multiple unpatched instances of pythooon across one’s Mac.

lol

You speak from personal experience?

I'm working on a project called Typhoon, I'm going to suggest any python bindings be called pythoon

I have an iPhone 5C in a drawer that I thought I might do something with. Like, turn it into an iPod, or use it as a backup burner or something. But it's stuck on iOS 10, won't show up on my Mac when I plug it in, and won't let me login to iCloud because iCloud requires at least iOS like 15 or something. I just want to use it as a dumb device, I don't even want any iCloud or phone functionality. Really lame! By the way i LOVE how small it feels in my hand. Almost miraculous.

What color 5c do you have

blue

Oldest one I have is a 4s, heavy af

My 4S plays the role of DJ Flan, a music repository in my car glovebox whose shuffle play picks are sly and mercurial

> By the way i LOVE how small (the iPhone 5c) feels in my hand. Almost miraculous.

My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini that I bought refurbished several months back, which I bought because it's only slightly larger and heavier, yet is reasonably up to date and runs the latest version of iOS. The follow-up 13 mini was the last of the Apple small phones (same size but a bit heavier than a 12 mini). My ageing eyes don't care for the smallish screen though, and I'm having way more difficulty typing on the small keypad than on the larger phone it replaced - odd since I don't recall having that problem with the first-gen SE I had a few years back, which is the same size as a 5c or 5s. I'll probably go back to a larger phone when the 16 ships presumably this autumn.

Yeah the keyboard feels very cramped.

https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/visionOS-bug-bats.gif

Release The Bats!

BATS CAN NO LONGER HAUNT APPLE VR HEADSETS VIA WEB EXPLOIT
by Donald Papp
June 26, 2024

Bug reporting doesn’t usually have a lot of visuals. Not so with the visionOS bug [Ryan Pickren] found, which fills a user’s area with screeching bats after visiting a malicious website. Even better, closing the browser doesn’t get rid of them! Better still? Doesn’t need to be bats, it could be spiders. Fun!

The bug has been fixed, but here’s how it worked: the Safari browser build for visionOS allowed a malicious website to fill the user’s 3D space with animated objects without interaction or permission. The code to trigger this is remarkably succinct, and is actually a new twist on an old feature: Apple AR Quick Look, an HTML-based feature for rendering 3D augmented reality content in Safari.

I didn't plan to get a Keychron Q6 keyboard today, but so far I'm not regretting the decision

That looks dope except for … maybe the rounded edges on the keys? I’d prefer more square

there's hundreds of different key styles you can get once you get into this. The /r/MechanicalKeyboards community wikis were helpful and can help zero you in depending on what yr doing. The Q6 is expensive as fuck - it's joining the mechnical keyboard cult at the 33rd degree - but after a couple of hours my wrists and arms are less fatigued maybe? It's definitely forcing me to keep my typing position better.

i wanted to like the old Apple A1016 I found in a thrift store, in great shape. Could not believe how much force it took to type on, compared to my cheap mechanical.

Yeah I just sold my old one - it was like typing on hard peppermints after years of being coddled by the butterfly mechanisms.