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One of the reasons I migrated to Apple was that shit just worked. I was tired of tinkering with things, blue screens of death, and malware. I grew up and just wanted my devices to do basic tasks flawlessly. Apple use to accomplish that. Nowadays iTunes and iPhoto are complete pieces of shit.
Have you tried to search for electronic music by genre, year, etc.? It's not easy, if even possible, making it a pain in ass to buy music on iTunes unless I know the artist's name and the name of the song or record. Electronic music is lumped together while there are many legit, large sub genres.
Then there's Photo on your mac. They recently screwed up the bluetooth transfer and now it's hit and miss if you send more than 3 photos. You get a "preparing" screen that loads.... and sometimes just fucks off like a drunken asshole. Then you have to try again, and again and sometimes it's not available, please try again later. FUCK YOU! It's right there on my phone you fucks! But actually it isn't because it's there on their "iCloud" that you pay for, but don't have immediate access to. I now I can turn it off and I probably have to know, but I pay for the service!
So now my post that should have taken about an hour has stretched into a full day.
Fuck you Apple, your shit is starting to function like M$FT. Jobs would have fired all you morons and done it right.
Old habits die hard.
When I grew up, teachers at schools of all levels (elementary, middle, and high) were extolling the virtues of the Mac. The harsh reality was that the Macintrash and its operating systems (all the way through and including OS 9) were utter shit. If I had to do work on a Mac in school, 80%-90% of the time I'd run into problems with programs or even the whole system freezing and crashing. Way too much time was wasted on rebooting those fucked-up Macintrashes and recovering lost work. In computer science classes, I got some poor grades on assignments and tests solely because of the unreliability of Apple's
productsshit back then. I never had these problems when I worked on PCs running MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1. Now Windows 95 and 98, yeah, those blue screens of death were really annoying but they were only occasional.Apple finally got their shit together with OS X, which I had to work with a bit in college. That was the first time I ever experienced true reliability with an Apple product. But by this point, the damage had been long done and I made a promise to myself that I would never directly purchase anything from Apple and if I did purchase an Apple product, I sure as hell was going to do it on the cheap.
Fast forward to late 2016 -- Apple somehow had managed to hold on to its good reputation for reliability that OS X had finally established. My family wouldn't stop egging me to get into the "next generation" of tech products, which I had long resisted because I didn't see how I would really need them. I finally bit the bullet when an arcade offering iPad Pros as redemption prizes opened up locally. I ended up spending many hours playing games there to acquire 4 iPad Pros (to cover the entire family) for about $900. Perhaps not the most efficient way, but cheap enough considering it would've cost me $2600 to buy them from the nearby Apple Store. These tablets were running iOS 9.3 when I got them. Then iOS 10 came out with the infamous porn fail, and when they finally fixed that I was able to download iOS 10.2.1 but not install that update. Now they're on to iOS 11 (which apparently seems to be a piece of epic fail from what I've heard) and I still can't update my iPad.
The old Apple I once knew way too well seems to be back and in full force.
(BTW, just to be clear, this is not my rant for the week. My first-level comment on social casino apps is -- unless the judges somehow deem this reply to be so much better.)