Why I hate Apple (computers)

[DiTBho]

You have the same level of frustration

     resource successfully probed and initialized ...
                 therefore feasible and potentially already ready
         but Ops, you cannot use it

                   because science
                   ** accept it **

with Synology-like (Chinese products) running GNU/Linux(embedded) 

Yup, the kernel can use the volume manager: ohhhh, great!!!
Yup, you see two disks in RAID1 as a logical single disk: ohhhh, great!!!
Just wait ... I don't see any option to use it in the custom application that comes with the product.
What?!? It's already supported by the kernel, so why there isn't any "option" in any application?

                   because science
                   ** accept it **

Already seen, thousand times in thousand commercial products.
(even in Amazon Kindle products)
And when the hardware works without too many quirks,
... you can write
... += your-own firmware,
... += your-own  application,
... += your-own Kernel module,
... += ...

O'man, perhaps the best trick is to be genetically engineered so you can only sleep 2 hours a day
 ... more hours awake means more time for hacking, more things to hack, more hacks completed

My sweet dreams are made of this, because ...
... because it's not just "Apple", it's "all of Computer Science", especially that made for business.

When ...

• engineers have to meet poor commercial deadlines -> they don't have time to deal with all the miscellaneous features/options
• engineers have to obey the constraints imposed by the commercial division -> they are forced to "IGNORE" unpaid features/options, so consumers will pay for upgrades/new products that are the same as the current product with just more features/options on the side firmware/software

[MrMobodies]

I remember something like this happening to someone and it turned out to be a search indexer called Spotlight.
https://www.technipages.com/macos-sierra-enable-disable-spotlight

After I unticked the stuff to index it it was lovely and quick.

They did have an SSD installed a couple of years before that.

We were still stuck on OS 10. Even searching the Apple App Store, there was no sign of a later version of macOS. Eventually I found a link on Apple's website in some blog post which manually took me to where the OS update lived, but of course, you can't just download it and run the package... no no no... it forces you to use the App Store.

But before you can download anything, you have to sign-in using your Apple ID. After entering in the correct username and password, it claimed the login was incorrect. 45 minutes went by and after lots of swearing and threatening to throw the machine into the bush like a Frisbee, it was by pure chance that I found some obscure instruction which said I needed enter in the password, let the authentication fail, then enter the password again along with appending the 2FA code to the end. Oddly enough, that worked. Why the hell did I need to play this guessing game? If this was some kind of weird legacy requirement, why not say so in the application itself?

*Secondly, why not just provide the OS as an ISO image to be installed from a USB drive? Why all this fucking around and signing-in to stupid cloud-based garbage? Too bad if you wanted to use this machine offline. This whole process just re-affirmed three key points:

*They use to ten year ago at some point and I had one automatically install when it was cabled up.

In 2012 or 13? I was given a Macbook that had a failing drive. I was given some CD's to reinstall it. I put a new drive in, it was all connected up and soon as I switched it on a setup started without putting the CD in (first with this fancy animated colourful strings across the middle of the screen) I wondering what's going on here. Is there some kind of flash storage installed with a recovery on there, an option on a mini pci card I think I read about being available at the time of the Duo cores but never seen them.

No, I saw the light flash the on the network switch and can see traffic going to it. I had a network cable plugged into it.
It installed it and then required a key or some number which the customer sorted out.

I took out the drive and put blank one in and then I can see it briefly looking for a DHCP address and yes it was set to get the recovery image directly from the Apple's web storage which I thought was very nice as a recovery option.

So easy and that was before it was called cloud.
Joke: all before they started insulting the consumer with it.

Years after that, another customer was complaining that their mac wouldn't update for some reason. I can't remember all the details but apparently when I did my checking it mention that the version was no longer supported and to just download an ISO image, copy to CD to reinstall. I remember the words  "Snow Leopard  and "EL Capitan".

[TomKatt]

I know there is a 'Apple Tax' on their products, but even as a WinTel pc guy I do like their hardware.  Their mobile products "just work" with minimal fuss and I tweak enough gear throughout the week to also spend time setting up various flavors of Android settings.

I've got an old mid 2015 Macbook Pro and it's still surprisingly useful.  I think few PC based laptops would have survived in as good condition (including the battery), most likely because most PC gear is built down to a cost, where you're paying upfront for a bit more quality with Apple.   I did the wipe and OS reload thing with and don't recall too much fuss getting the downloads.

As for the cloud vs physical media for OS images, I think there's something to be said for the security that provides and you can be more certain that your OS image doesn't contain any 'rogue' instructions buried deep down.  Likewise, I feel apps from the Apple Store are more secure than those from Google Play (or worse yet, sideloaded).