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Re:iTunes will never work well by spronkey on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:58AM (#12530349)
Please. Don't try to defend Photos.app, it's an abysmal piece of junk. It breaks UI metaphors. Saving its library to your pictures directory? Sure. But it's a royal pain if I don't want to store those pictures on a Mac. Which wouldn't be such an issue if Apple let you upgrade the storage. But no, you can't do that. So buy iCloud and shut the hell up, right?

I find myself wondering daily, how the hell have Apple dropped the ball so badly, and how on earth have they not been steamrolled by Microsoft.

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Re:iTunes will never work well by Grishnakh on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:04PM (#12532898)
>Which wouldn't be such an issue if Apple let you upgrade the storage. But no, you can't do that. So buy iCloud and shut the hell up, right?

>I find myself wondering daily, how the hell have Apple dropped the ball so badly, and how on earth have they not been steamrolled by Microsoft.

Because there's legions of gullible suckers who'll line up to buy the latest iDevice and then believe everything Apple tells them, whether it's "you're holding it wrong" or "you don't need to copy music files to your phone, just buy them again on iTunes" or "you don't need a headphone jack, just buy a new pair of Bluetooth headphones from Beats for $$$".

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Re:iTunes will never work well by spronkey on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @06:57AM (#12547009)
I always hear this, but then I look at all the people I know who are less technically able, who struggle daily with Apple's stupid ecosystem. Oh, I filled up the 16GB iPad with Photos, how do I make more space?

It's getting harder and harder to answer the questions they ask.

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Re:iTunes will never work well by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:28PM (#12550900)
Are you saying they come to you with these questions? What do you tell them?

I know what I'd tell them: "Easy, transfer your old photos onto your computer to free up some space." Now if they ask how to do that, I'll tell them "I don't know, I don't use Apple devices. Try asking Siri." Unless maybe it's some hot girl I'm trying to bed, then I'll work a little harder, but I'll still try to convince her to dump Apple and switch to Android so I don't have to deal with this stuff in the future.

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