1) My Bluetooth audio on my recent-model iPhone (15 Pro Max) is still flaky AF, across all Bluetooth speaker devices or my car. Even my 4 year old kid noticed and commented on it! It's been like this since the iOS beta, for months. And I can tell that it's one of those hideous, nondeterministic bugs, too. Apple, hire me as a contractor to help fix it, if you want! I love hard problems.
2) There is still no solution for this annoying-as-hell UI problem that I documented years ago on Medium: https://medium.com/@pmarreck/the-most-annoying-ui-problem-r3...
3) I had to buy Superwhisper (which is a nice product, but works a little janky due to how iOS handles keyboard extensions) because Siri's voice dictation is so abysmally worse than literally every other option right now, and has been for years. WTF, Apple?
Hey Tim, I love the Vision Pro too (I own one) but maybe get your head out of that for a bit and polish up the engineering on the rest of your lines!
I'm no fan of Apple's, but Bluetooth is one of the shittiest human inventions of all time, has always been bad and will likely always be bad. A million bandaids ain't gonna make a bone-healing cast.
I've never, and I mean never, had problems with Bluetooth audio in the car. I dispute the assertion that it's always been bad, because my experience has been uniformly positive.
Part of the lucky 1% maybe.
But only until the one day you really need Bluetooth to work and it just doesn't. We many Bluetooth sufferers will happily accept you into our ranks when (not if) that day comes. :)
I never had an issue connecting Bluetooth to the car. Android auto, apple car play on the other side is quite unreliable.
> 1) My Bluetooth audio on my recent-model iPhone (15 Pro Max) is still flaky AF, across all Bluetooth speaker devices or my car.
Haha so it's not just my wife's iPhone 15 Pro Max that keeps stuttering in any CarPlay
Yeah, but it’s probably not Bluetooth’s fault, as wireless CarPlay uses WiFi (at least in every case I know of).
I don't use CarPlay (I have a Tesla; they opted out a long time ago and stuck with that) so it has nothing to do with wifi or other interference.
The only thing that's changed was upgrading to the new iOS.
I was replying to user hu3, who claims to use CarPlay (or their spouse).
figured that much. my android runs fine in the same vehicle. no song stutters
> I had to buy Superwhisper (which is a nice product
It's literally a paid wrapper around a completely free program you would also be using for free if Apple wasn't actively hostile to Open Source software distribution.
LOL. Whisper may be free (I use it in at least 1 project), but it doesn't come with a GUI, hooks into mic audio and keyboard trigger, and other things necessary for something to work well on macOS.
I am willing to pay for things that work well (and don't forget support afterwards) because I know from experience that simply having an "open-source core" just gets you halfway there, if that; the last 5% of polish to a finished, reliable, supportable product is at least 50% more work.
And, to put it bluntly, since we don't live in a communist society, eventually SOMEone has to put food on the table from their efforts. I'm 100% fine with paying for that.
Lastly, I have a kid, which means that I have 0% time to spend on troubleshooting non-working open-source stuff (which I actually enjoyed doing before the kid); I am ALL about reliability now, which is why I paid for Eero home mesh networking (despite cheaper or free options), a NAS from iXSystems (despite me being quite capable of installing TrueNAS on my own hardware), pay for Apple products (despite loving my NixOS Framework laptop as well), and don't upgrade my 10 year old Tesla (because it still runs like a top, and that's my highest priority right now- reliability)
Once you get a kid, trust me, your views are gonna change, because you clearly do NOT have one.
This is what happens to your tinkering-around-with-open-source time after it:
Now if you're lucky, you will end up in a position where you get paid to tinker around, and where they won't get upset if you use some work time to work on "aligned" tech.You're the same guy who's wondering why software quality is so low on iOS?
You refuse to vote with your dollar. You buy Apple's failed products like Vision Pro, and reinforce their insular self-destructive business model. You tacitly defend their right to commercialize free software and victimize yourself when alternatives are identified. There is zero feedback loop between you and Apple, just a wallet that keeps vomiting cash. The only outlet of communication that you can use to tell them to focus on the Mac or iPhone (eg. buying more Macs and iPhones) is being eschewed to support "the ecosystem" and replacement apps.
Therefore, you reserve no right to tell Tim Cook to stop focusing on the Vision Pro. You own one. You are one of the (sole) customers begging Tim to divert his attention away from the Mac, so he can focus on his visionary iPhone replacement. You wanted it bad enough to spend $3,500 that could have gone towards a college fund, three iPhones, six Macs, or an entire 16th birthday "come to the garage" surprise.
"WTF Apple" my ass, either take your lumps or buy a new product. We only hear this sort of moral floundering when monopolies form and people have to make themselves look helpless rather than an accomplice. Clearly Apple has no incentive to compete, but you also lack the balls to indict them despite rearing an entire family. Instead of commiserating with your faux helplessness, I will tell you to participate in a market economy to enforce the product of free market competition. You cannot make demands from a position of captivity.
Fair enough
Changing buttons or live results are annoying, indeed.
Something I find worse: being unable to click a target while the animation is running! Because the target only gets focus after the animation is done: you start spending you time waiting for the animations in the end.
Ironically, the Google link there suffers from delayed loading of the toc at top: I tapped to play the video as it moved down.
Google link? What? I only put in a Medium link, and there's no video.
or do you mean Cumulative Layout Shift, Google's term for it which I linked from there? https://web.dev/articles/cls