Hi all. For the record, I saw in a Twitter post that Bono, the lead singer of U2, made a public apology for having Apple force download their album onto people's iDevices. With that out of the way, I've said it before and I'll say it again. With me the cool new features of iOS8 outweigh all the bugs. I love the fact that now that I bought an iPhone 5S a few weeks ago, I can enjoy having Alex on both my Mac and iPhone. He totally is better than the Nuance voices that the phone has already, and personally, I don't know about anyone else, but I got pretty bored of hearing them. Another cool feature I like is since I'm running the public beta of Yosemite, which is either coming this week according to an article I read or the 21st to the general public, is the ability to use my Mac as an iPhone if my iPhone isn't beside me. So yeah, iOS 8 has some annoying little bugs, but it's something I can live with, and I'm very optimistic that some or all the bugs will be fixed in 8.1. But if people want to go back to Windows because they find that Apple is ruining their experiences on the Mac and switch to Android because of the same reason, No one's stopping you. But as for me I'm sticking with a company whose devices haven't failed me for almost 4 years. That's impressive compared to the number of PC's I've had. One was a Lenovo whose hard drive failed on 2 separate occasions, one wouldn't connect to the internet, and 2 I punched breaking the hard drive because they were pissing me off due to them being so slow. So yeah. The closest I'll get to using a PC again is if I use a VM on a computer that I can trust that will do the job. So if I'm a bit too loyal to Apple, that's why. And I know that we're the customers, and the customers are kings, but you're looking at one happy customer.
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:50 PM, The Believer <[email protected]> wrote: > > If the offensive music is not already downloaded to your device, go to > Settings > Music and toggle the Show All Music to off. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > [email protected] > > On 10/15/2014 7:38 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: >> Need to get rid of an album from your phone? Just focus on the album and >> swipe one finger quickly up and double tap. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! >> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus! >> >> On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:03 PM, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ok, I couldn't have said that better myself, and there's a way to get rid >>> of that album, but can't remember how right off; you may have to google it, >>> sense I deleted the e-mail someone on another list sent me sense I was done >>> with it. I love Apple's products, and wouldn't go back to what I used to >>> use (a windows smartphone running mobile speak, that was still only halfway >>> accessible,) for anything in the world, but think that just like Microsoft >>> was famous for doing, they're starting to release their updates way too >>> soon, and, so am really glad there's someone in agreement here. >>> On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Barry Hadder <[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 b > e, 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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