Article: Dear Apple I'm Leaving

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Very amusing article covering probably most things that people find is wrong with Apple at the moment. Whether you agree or not, it is concerning the trend. I still got an iPad and iPod which i use regularly, but must admit i'm feeling alot of these things this guy talks about.

http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-apple-im-leaving-you-2012-11
Dear Tim,
There’s no easy way to put this so I’ll just come right out with it. I’m leaving you. It’s been great (mostly) but it’s over.
I figured the least I could do is to explain my decision in full – I like to think it might help protect you from nasty break-ups like this in the future.
I’ve been with you, with Apple I mean, for 13 years now – ever since 1999. Perhaps you’ve forgotten: I was a spotty teenager; I bought one of your cute little translucent iBooks. Slowly but surely I painted most parts of my technological life a bright shade of Apple. Let’s see: I’ve owned two iMacs, a number of iBooks, countless Macbooks (I’ve currently got two on the go, for some unknown reason), an iPhone for almost five years, an iPad since the very beginning; iPods, iPod touches, iPod nanos – I’ve had ‘em all. I even invested in an Apple TV and, wait for it, a G4 Power Mac Cube (yes, that was me!).


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-apple-im-leaving-you-2012-11#ixzz2B3BpCHLL
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I've read some stupid articles but this takes the cake. He's upset Apple put an SD card in the Macbook?
When iOS came out I found myself having to download the manual and wade through its 156 pages (156, FFS Tim!) to find out what you’d done with the settings I used to use. That’s the first time I’ve ever had to use an Apple instruction manual.
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He had to read an instruction manual for iOS??
 
Ex-fanboys are the worst :( Talk to Star Wars fundies if you want to know real anguish.
 
I'd have to disagree with his statement

the truth is: “it’s not me, it’s you”.
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all of his whining shows it is him. Good luck with that Samsung, Ed.
 
Synaesthesia said:
I've read some stupid articles but this takes the cake. He's upset Apple put an SD card in the Macbook?
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The move to remove the Express card reader in the MBP was a stupid one. It was actually used by users of Sony professional SxS (XD) cameras. The only alternative now is a Sony SxS USB 2.0 reader which is very slow and an extra $350 device to lug around.
 
The 5 standard steps of Apple disillusionment ..

1. iOS 6
2. You’ve lost it
3. You’re not cool anymore
4. You’re screwing us
5. I don’t need you any more

I know 'cos apart from no 1 that's exactly the stages I went through when I divorced Apple.
 
chris_meier said:
all of his whining shows it is him. Good luck with that Samsung, Ed.
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It shows that in a way he's matured somewhat. However, he hasn't matured enough to realise that the changes Apple forced on its customers earlier were of a similar nature and he was just being a putzy kid back then shouting "progress! change!" for the same of looking cool but not the sake of functionality and productivity. Getting rid of serial ports when only one printer make has USB? That's more retarded than introducing a new smaller iOS device connector which will actually make your device thinner and where adapters are available. Getting rid of Google Maps when third party Map applications are available? So what. Get real. You've paid R10,000 for an iPhone, you won't pay R500 for a decent nav app?
 
mercurial said:
Lol @ the fanboys attacking the article :D
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My thoughts exactly! Quite funny, actually. I'll just grab the popcorn, sit back & watch as this becomes another Apple vs Android flame fest.
 
Other stupid Apple decisions:

eliminating the ethernet port
non-user replaceable battery for the sake of a few grams in an already heavy machine
only two USB ports close together on certain (if not all) Macbook Pros

These are things that irk me, but then again some high end premium laptop makers also release two USB ports next to each other,
the stupidity is not Apple's exclusively.
 
I could have written that article. I've gone through the same. I really understand what the author is going through. Only problem is Windows 8 is NOT the answer for tablets/notebooks/PC's, but Android on phones and tablets is getting really really good. I have a Note II and there is nothing from Apple that comes close. I see even Stuff Magazine now rates the SIII as tops (iPhone 5 rated third) ... and when Stuff topples an Apple product from the throne then Apple must have a very good look at where it is heading.

iLounge got a new iPad 4 with a whole line of dead pixels ... never ever happened before. Now Jonny wants to flatten iOS to look like Modern UI ... (no wonder Scott didn't attend his meetings).

OS X is for sure better than Windows 8. The iPad is still the tablet king. But one can't help getting the feelings Apple's curve has reached it's summit and the downturn has started. Yes, the iPad Mini will sell well (I may well get one myself) ... but the competition is catching up and taking the lead. Cook has some hard decisions to make and actions to take. I'm just not convinced that abandoning Scott for Jonny was a good move. Good industrial design does not make a good software designer. I'm however sure Scott has already found other employment where OS's will be allowed to have some feel to them.
 
Beyond the melodrama of the present i think we tend to forget that the ipad has only been around for about 2.5 years, and yet mobile operating system have already begun to mature to the point where they are all quite good. Already android development is beginning to stagnate to small feature upgrades. 4 then 4.1, now 4.2. It's not incredibly exciting stuff; most of the groundwork has already been done.

The next few years will see IOS getting a kick in the pants visually, perhaps with a few minor annoyances finally solved, but really, it won't be mind-blowing. atleast not until hardware tech takes a major leap again with holograms and flexible displays. You know, all that crazy microsoft "future vision" stuff they like putting in videos which never gets released.

The next period will see Microsoft finally finishing windows 8 when they release windows 9. By that time Apple will have moved to a similar point with OSX and IOS moving closer to each other. Both MS and Apple are marching to the same place, just taking different paths.

The point in mentioning all of that is contrary to the visions of arm chair drama lamas everywhere seeing the pending failure of Apple, there isn't really a vastly different or better place to run to if you leave the island of a particular ecosystem. It's all very much the same, which means none of the big boys need to worry right now. Apple will be just fine if they keep building high quality hardware and give IOS the occasional visual update with the odd cool feature addition. Android and IOS are so well entrenched at this point not much can kill them, atleast not until the next major formfactor shift which is obviously harder to predict.

What we are seeing now is just the minor back and forth game of each operating system winning a round or two.

P.s. I only mention mobile because Apple are still way ahead when it comes to their imac and laptop designs.
 
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Space_Chief said:
The move to remove the Express card reader in the MBP was a stupid one. It was actually used by users of Sony professional SxS (XD) cameras. The only alternative now is a Sony SxS USB 2.0 reader which is very slow and an extra $350 device to lug around.
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or you can spend less than half of that on an express card thunderbolt adapter? I've got a feeling that more users would choose a sd card reader over a express card slot.
 
bwana said:
or you can spend less than half of that on an express card thunderbolt adapter? I've got a feeling that more users would choose a sd card reader over a express card slot.
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That presupposes that Express Card reader phaseout coincided with Thunderbolt adoption (and introduction of the correct device driver (May 2012) and hardware, which is false.
http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=445&expand=_a2_b623&action=b627
was introduced in May 2012 and is a huge device. So one has to lug that device around as well, it probably isn't cheap either.

Yes I know, I can still use my Vaio.

So you're not much help but for the above reasons, I hope you'll acknowledge that. ;-)

One correction: the Sonnettech device is not much larger than Sony's SBAC-US10 reader/writer, and the price although not $350 is $150-200 which is still more cash to spend and most important of all,
you have an extra thing to lug around and lose, especially when emptying out the $800 SxS 32GB SxS cards in the field is important.

Sadly my MBP Core i7 does not support Thunderbolt or Express card slot. Thank you Apple! I do own a Sony SBAC-US10 unit though or as said can use my TZ series Vaio.
 
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Space_Chief said:
That presupposes that Express Card reader phaseout coincided with Thunderbolt adoption (and introduction of the correct device driver (May 2012) and hardware, which is false.
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The express card reader was only finally phased out with the 17" this year so in fact it's not false - there was considerable overlap.

Space_Chief said:
http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=445&expand=_a2_b623&action=b627
was introduced in May 2012 and is a huge device. So one has to lug that device around as well, it probably isn't cheap either.
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Lug? The Sonnet is only 225g and slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes. I'm not sure how much your video gear weighs but I don't complain about having to carry around CF card readers when I'm carrying 25kg of camera gear. ;)

One thing I don't understand is if there is such a high demand for express card readers why is only one company making them? :confused:
 
Joh, not only is he bitter but he is obviously quite short sited and stupid too. Definitely has the hipster vibe going, "I used apple before it was cool."

iOS isn't revolutionary. It isn't a spectacular change. Maps was crap for a lot of places, I will give him that, but it is improving very fast. The fact that he says he needed a user manual though... For what? The basics of the OS haven't changed since day 1. Settings still have exactly the same buttons and ways to access them. If he needed a manual to figure out how to change that he should be using a Nokia 3310.
 
Guantanamo said:
The fact that he says he needed a user manual though... For what?
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Exactly, not to mention that he never discovered the potential of Siri (beyond the teenage novelty aspect that he implies most users also resort to).

I'm surprised that "The Macalope" went so easy on him.
 
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