Nonstop whining about how Apple sucks

The problem isn’t users abandoning Mac OS for iOS. It is Apple users getting frustrated with Apple’s arrogance, lack of listening to customers, greed, and simply putting out cookie-cutter mediocre products and so saying goodbye to Apple and migrating to Windows or Google.

Apple software is no longer best in class in any category other than Operating Systems.

Maps? Google wins.

Voice Recognition? Google wins. Siri sucks.

Graphics? Adobe wins.

E-mail? Anything is better than Apple Mail. I use Airmail.

Productivity? MS Office over Apple iWork.

Photography? Apple’s camera software cannot even take RAW images. So multiple third-party photo apps beat Apple here.

Photos software would be great if it worked. It only works on iOS, not on Mac. It doesn’t sync and hasn’t since Mojave.

Music? I’ll take Spotify over Apple Music. Or even Pandora. Apple has nothing like Soundhound or Shazam.

News? The new app is tempting due to the visuals but I’m not convinced that I want to trade the NYT for the LA Times.

Books? Amazon Audible wins.

Even the Finder is outdated. Pathfinder does what Apple should have done years ago. The Finder hasn’t been updated since 1984.

Safari? Garbage compared to Firefox.

Apple TV? Chromecast is better and cheaper.

Time Machine was fabulous for 2008 when Steve Jobs introduced it. Apple has never upgraded it to use AFS or operate partly in the Cloud. It is the closest thing Apple has to Best in Class Software.

This is what happens when you put a bean counter into a job the requires a technologist and a product person.

Apple will only get worse until they get rid of Tim Cook. He did a decent job carrying out Steve’s task list, but Steve has been dead a long time.

Apple is Tim Cook’s company now so he is ultimately responsible.

If Apple was willing to throw away Dashboard instead of monetizing it, what will they kill next?

My bet is they will kill OS X entirely and make the laptops and desktops run on iOS. Meaning it will be a closed system and every single thing that runs on it will need to come from the App Store.

As I said, it won’t be long before Apple rolls out Mac OSX v20 Death Valley.

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