Hi all,
I don't know about yall, but I have an iphone 6 with IOS 8 and I have
to say that the experience is less than stellar. Bugs everywhere,
slower than on my iphone 5s, siri cut off midway then voice over not
working, hang like slowness when getting out of an app. I have to say
that I have started looking for alternatives as I feel like apple is
trying to nudge things too much into the "let big brother figure out
for you what you should like and do". Point in case, that U2 debacle.
Last weekend I was camping with some mates and I was going through
some tracks after lunch, and those damn U2 tracks kept popping up like
annoying ads. Really don't want some band pushing their crap on my
life experience when I shelled out 1200 dollars for a phone that is
supposed to do things for me. Not the other way around. Sure, U2 has
some great songs. But their current 50's midlife crisis moans aren't
my style, nor inspire me. I can listen to that when I go into an apple
store and wait for a genius to tell me my future.
Seriously folks, I'm not just going off on a rant, and for those of
you who want to reply by being defensive for apple, just remember a
few basic things:
1-You are customer. Customer is king, you are not serving apple. Apple
makes money off you, take 30 percent of the cut on your music
production or app developement with their platform. They serve you.
Not the other way around.
2-Apple is not god almighty. Apple has great people that collectively
create experiences. At the helm, a few individuals decide on the
direction of that experience. Personally, I don't trust Tim Cook that
much in giving us a good experience. That Johnny Ive sounds like a
pompous marketing guy with design skills I cannot trust as head of
human interface, a software division, coming from someone who used to
make toilet seats. The only one or ones I can trust in this are
frederici and some of the younger engineers presented at the last
apple showcase. but they don't have enough say yet, so we're stuck
with all that flash graphical transition animation style crap instead
of truly clean, efficient and snappy interfaces.
3-There are other choices out there, but I have no idea what.
Sometimes I wish I was sighted again so that I can really be part of
the process of creating real interfaces for everyone. It's frustrating
to know that most companies follow what is standard and forget that
standards are meant to be broken and updated. Not broken at the cost
of the buyer, no. If it's broken, it should be free, such as what
google offers. Buying a 3000 dollar piece of hardware to get clunky
experiences and moments where you want to throw that damn thing out
the window and never touch it again is clearly not what I call good
experience on a computer. More and more of my friends, mac users, both
sighted and visually impaired, agree with me that apple is starting to
rot in terms of presenting it's image. It's not an underdog but a huge
bulky oil tanker that can now only manuver slowly with a battalion of
lawyers behind murmuring at the chief's ears, the latter being
probably more complacent than should be, thus giving us this weird
awkward show each year now with a barely straight talking TIm Cook who
sounds like he never had a girl friend chill time or something seems
amiss in him. Some soul? Something. Whatever the case, I don't really
dig the style apple is portraying. It's becoming a disney world
presentation with oooohs and aaahs when the tech behind is quite
literally lagging. No visionary stuff, when this qualification should
by now, from all the sci fi, the research and the graduations of
bright people, should lead us much farther in terms of actual
interaction with a computer, and let's not forget screen readers.
Anyway, off for my morning coffee. Have a great day yall
Yuma Antoine Decaux
"Light has no value without darkness"
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