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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by saagarjha on Sunday December 22, 2019 @04:44PM (#21859871)
Apple's "services" apps–App Store, Music, Podcasts, TV–are the worst apps on the platform, period. They're so awful that I cannot understand how a sane developer could ship something like that.
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by deergomoo on Sunday December 22, 2019 @07:11PM (#21860577)
Music (on iOS) has become so obtuse to use.

To enable/disable shuffle after selecting a song, you must tap a bar near the bottom (which gives no visual indication that it expands); once expanded, you must then tap an unlabelled button with a “list” icon. This will show your upcoming queue, but also holds the control for shuffle and repeat. These are also unlabelled, but at least the icons are fairly unmistakable.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by captainredbeard on Sunday December 22, 2019 @07:14PM (#21860600)
Interestingly enough, Eddy Cue's org consistently puts out the crappiest software while operating with the biggest ego (internally).
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by saagarjha on Sunday December 22, 2019 @07:16PM (#21860611)
> while operating with the biggest ego (internally)

Source? I know the apps are horrible but I haven’t seen much to make it seem like he’s specifically more full of ego.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by captainredbeard on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:32AM (#21936781)
My personal opinion as an engineering manager who worked closely with that org for years.
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by rogual on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:07AM (#21862353)
May I add — shudder — Books.app: http://macos-design-review.com/books.html
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by dmitriid on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:59AM (#21863096)
Wow. Thank you for this!

My recent gripe is the Recent list: https://grumpy.website/post/0Spuij-7C

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