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0 pointscoldtea10y ago0 comments

>Still a total disregard of Fitt's law. Horribly inconsistent keyboard support. Behaviour that should be trivially configurable seemingly set in stone. Still, I think, impossible to cut a file in Finder. The transparency is an abomination.

Well, those are not software quality issues. Some of those are design decisions, and have been with us forever, not random accidents: "Cut", for example, has never been on the Mac. Transparency in 10.11 is so lightweight you don't even notice it -- nothing Vista-like about it.

As for "total disregard of Fitt's law" that's not some decline either, as it's not worse or better than it has ever been in OS X.

>However many shots that take, apple can't get WiFi working properly.

Well, that qualifies as buggy software. But I have to wonder.

I've had an iBook, 2 MacBookPros (1 company issued), an iMac, a MacBook Pro Retina (current), 2 iPads and 2 iPhones thus far. And I've travelled all over the US, Europe and in several parts of Asia. I've never had any trouble with wifi, even to non-chain, el-cheapo motels.

The only offender has been my iPhone(s), which indeed I've not been able to connect to 3-4 places (restaurants etc) while traveling, over many hundreds of locations over 8 years. And I can't even know if it was because of the iPhone crapping out, or they using some crappy, third party router.

So I wonder, what are all those wi-fi issues people mention in forums etc.

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FireBeyond10y ago

""Cut", for example, has never been on the Mac. "

Apple Notes would like a word with you. Specifically the word 'Cut' under the Edit menu.

Apple Calendar would also like the word with you.

Terminal. Script Editor.

Not sure how you come to some conclusion that Cut is not "on the Mac".

My Apple devices regularly need me to switch WiFi off and on, in my home which has an Airport Extreme and Express, both with latest firmware.

nikdaheratik10y ago

In context, they mean "cut" as a way to move a file from one place to another, not related to text which seems to be what you are talking about.

coldteaOP10y ago

>Not sure how you come to some conclusion that Cut is not "on the Mac".

We're talking about Cut for files (in the Finder), not inside apps.

parasubvert10y ago

>And I've travelled all over the US, Europe and in several parts of Asia. I've never had any trouble with wifi, even to non-chain, el-cheapo motels. So I wonder, what are all those wi-fi issues people mention in forums etc.

I agree with this 98%, with the exception of early releases of Yosemite, which really did seem to have a WiFi problem on the rMBP (even with Apple Airport Extreme base stations), in that it would disconnect a lot and you'd have to recycle your WiFi off/on. Annoying but not a deal breaker. And fixed within a month or two.

Otherwise I'd suspect there are some hardware + driver variations of Macbooks that may have had issues for others.

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