Superlative little rant, that. :) For myself, I'm back on Mountain Lion for my primary machine, a mid-11 iMac, to get an email client that displays plain text messages, a working C compiler compatible with much Open Source software, and no bloody iBooks. It's still iOSified, but at least it functions. I am thinking about Windows--have been for a while now, actually--as going neither further back nor further forward with OS X would appear to be options. I would stay with Snow Leopard, but it's not an option, and Mavericks+ are where the dumbed-down interfaces get a bit too much for anything that isn't basic mucking about. Linux: nope, not on the desktop. Windows 7, then?
You can hide U2 easily enough, in iTunes, on your purchases tab. And you can hide them from your cloud view by just deleting them and taking the option to hide. As for iOS, I'd suggest you sign up for an Apple Developer account or team up with someone who has so you can run the 8.1 beta. You'd be in a better position to judge the performance of the bug fixes, and complain to Apple about the remainder. Personally, although I think iOS is turning into Android, in an unhealthy way, even as OS X turns into iOS, I can't complain about my iPhone 6+. It gives me pleasure to use it, even if I get annoyed by some of the bugs or can't tell which app requires which permissions. I still have an iOS 7-equipped iPad and iPod, when I need smooth sailing above all things. The initial iOS 8 release and the subsequent minor releases did not enjoy good quality control, and not just for VoiceOver users either, but I do think we have been punished rather badly compared to previous releases. And yeah, we are the customers, dammit; don't excuse or idolise Apple. There is a reason why the folder where my Apple list traffic goes into is called "BlindFaith". :) So anyway, KBO. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
