We once utilized an ad agency that relied heavily on "AI" to pre-test ad creative.
The agency presented regional branding campaign creative with our national flag flying at half mast. The AI predicted success. The ad agency stood by the AI.
Certainly would have generated clicks.
But the ad agency lost a customer. Not sure if the AI would have predicted that!
When one of my older Macs became unresponsive due to that Apple network failure problem issue, I spent countless hours running various system cleaner utilities, uninstalling apps, and blindly running obscure terminal commands from Stack Overflow, even though my own initial console log analysis (and instincts) had more-or-less confirmed that it was an issue with trustd network connection timeouts to Apple's own servers.
Fool on me. This coupled with having to get my 2019 Macbook Air keyboard replaced twice (due to sticky keys) has me thinking out loud about moving away from Apple.
This article is bi-polar, which summarizes my feelings on the topic as well.
I'm in the same boat as the author and have been trying (slowly) to move towards using an iPad full time. Compared to a couple years ago the apps and UX have improved significantly, however, (for me) using the iPad still feels more like a very specialized tool, compared to the more general utility of a Macbook.
I realize that for general productivity the iPad works best with a keyboard attached, a mouse, external storage. Adding more hardware. But then you have a MacBook in disguise ...
I'm guessing we'll never get a Macbook with touch screen and Apple Pencil support? But it does seem like the iPad has been slowly optimizing itself to fill that role.
That works for any service where you don't fully control the other endpoint. They are just being transparent. Although the wording re: website is peculiar. Could it be their form of a canary like warning?
As a developer, I expect that smaller shops' infrastructure isn't as thoroughly locked down and things like passwords getting logged to splunk/ELK is tech debt, and par for the course. However that's a very specific exception though, to the point that instead of putting work into adding that into their disclaimer, they could have made sure the password wasn't being logged instead.
They deleted all of my data when one of my payments didn't go through, without notifying me. They are impossible to contact outside of passive aggressive email support. I deeply regret trying to trust this company with my data, which is now gone. Do yourself a favor before trusting them and give them a call and to ask about their services.
> that do everything possible to defend their "turf".
In my experience, some of these "little hitlers" appear to be (controlled by) larger corporate entities in some way, shape or form. When the "turf" becomes profitable for some, it becomes very difficult for others to cut the grass so to speak.
Yes, was looking for this post. I rarely used the markup in the previous editor, but the new editor is so buggy I keep looking for an icon to switch to markup.
The Butterfly mechanism was tainted by a number of design flaws that forced Apple to provide a soft recall:
https://support.apple.com/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-n...
I'm literally getting my new Macbook serviced today due to sticky butterfly keys.
All they really had to do was find a way to make the keys more easily removable. The butterfly mechanism is really nice when it works, but when a single key can stick and there is no easy way to clean / replace it so you have to replace the entire cop case which is insane.
And you are correct. Just got back from the Genius Bar, they have to replace the entire top case because the R key tends to stick or misfire. 2 week repair because they don't have the parts. Sounds like an expensive repair for a single key.
The person sitting next to me had the exact same issue (but different keys)!
The agency presented regional branding campaign creative with our national flag flying at half mast. The AI predicted success. The ad agency stood by the AI.
Certainly would have generated clicks.
But the ad agency lost a customer. Not sure if the AI would have predicted that!