All that before coffee? Wow! You da man! I didn't understand much of it but I sure liked the spirit!
Sent from my IPhone > On Oct 15, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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" > Mob: +612102277190 > Skype: Shainobi1 > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
