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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by hyperbovine on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:51PM (#18365640)
I do agree with this. When I was younger I would happily blow a whole weekend getting my window manager set just so or figuring out how to load load songs onto my Diamond Rio from RedHat. Now I’m middle aged and I’m willing to pay all sorts of $$ to have it just work in a sensible way. And work it does — nothing in android or windows land even comes close. It’s surprising how many comments I see here that are completely oblivious to this and insist on trashing apple for being “not free”. The market has spoken. Almost no one cares.
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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by msla on Friday November 02, 2018 @05:40PM (#18366991)
Interesting: I used to use what you use now, and I gave it up when I realized I was spending too much time re-training, learning the latest UI fads, and not getting any real work done. No consistency, no backwards-compatibility, just the upgrade treadmill. Now that I'm an adult, it isn't worth chasing that anymore, and I'm on Linux now.

Window Maker hasn't changed in a very long time.

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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by rorykoehler on Friday November 02, 2018 @10:32PM (#18368330)
I have both android and ios devices. Android is far superior for file management. Ios is a joke in that regard. Folders weren't broken but somehow ios managed to break them. Now if I want to save a random file on my ipad I have to choose a directory related to some unrelated app!? Why can't I just create a directory like I do on every other device I own?
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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by hellisothers on Saturday November 03, 2018 @05:01PM (#18372464)
why are you trying to “manage files”? More control comes at the expense of ease of use (generally) it seems like, if you can’t give up one you won’t get the other
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Re:Apple Used to Be an Inventor. Now It’s Mainly a Landlord by rorykoehler on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:07PM (#18373428)
Because I need to reference files quickly on the go and can't risk not being able to access them due to poor/no internet connectivity. I also want to be able to save files that ios doesn't provide a way to save (eg download YouTube) and have now found a third party app that lets me do that. Should be a core part of ios. ITunes is shit.
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