Steve was a terrible person but he was amazing at getting the company to fix things when they went so anti customer that it was impossible to use.
Apple really needs someone to fucking yell at them for how shitty their software is lately — just yesterday and the day before Notification Center crashed on two different machines I was using and required hard reboots. I have windows get forgotten by expose and stop responding to the window server properly, iOS keyboard is unusable. iWork is dead and gives me subscribe pop ups on every open, settings has ads, apps like Image Capture haven’t been updated for like three OS major versions and show the wrong chrome, mdstore and spotlight is constantly using 300% CPU every day, spotlight can’t find files anymore, Siri on iOS can’t cancel a request that you meant to make a web search but now you’re stuck waiting on AI bullshit, new Siri is approximately 100% wrong, the settings app is impossible to use, keychain is full of dead APIs, APIs have no actual documentation anymore you get like one or two examples instead, copy and paste images is dead, Time Machine is constantly wasting invisible space, launchctrl daemons are broken by permission dialogs, Automator has been replaced by Shortcuts which is supposed to only be used by AI… I could keep going… but it’s utter crap.
Yes. He was an asshole. I couldn’t find the right word for customer because of that and flash and a million other things that were blatantly self interested. Maybe the best way to put it is he cared more about Apple than anything, and that meant he cared more about customers than engineers (Apple > Customer > Staff?)
But at least most things made sense and didn’t suck with him around.
Steve was a terrible person but he was amazing at getting the company to fix things when they went so anti customer that it was impossible to use.
Apple really needs someone to fucking yell at them for how shitty their software is lately — just yesterday and the day before Notification Center crashed on two different machines I was using and required hard reboots. I have windows get forgotten by expose and stop responding to the window server properly, iOS keyboard is unusable. iWork is dead and gives me subscribe pop ups on every open, settings has ads, apps like Image Capture haven’t been updated for like three OS major versions and show the wrong chrome, mdstore and spotlight is constantly using 300% CPU every day, spotlight can’t find files anymore, Siri on iOS can’t cancel a request that you meant to make a web search but now you’re stuck waiting on AI bullshit, new Siri is approximately 100% wrong, the settings app is impossible to use, keychain is full of dead APIs, APIs have no actual documentation anymore you get like one or two examples instead, copy and paste images is dead, Time Machine is constantly wasting invisible space, launchctrl daemons are broken by permission dialogs, Automator has been replaced by Shortcuts which is supposed to only be used by AI… I could keep going… but it’s utter crap.
Steve said users were holding their phones wrong instead of admitting to an obvious design flaw.
Yes. He was an asshole. I couldn’t find the right word for customer because of that and flash and a million other things that were blatantly self interested. Maybe the best way to put it is he cared more about Apple than anything, and that meant he cared more about customers than engineers (Apple > Customer > Staff?)
But at least most things made sense and didn’t suck with him around.