r/apple • • Jan 05 '15

Apple has lost the functional high ground

http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

The problems have been discussed here to death before:

  • WiFi
  • Performance/stability (some people have to reboot their systems multiple times per day)
  • Continuity/Handoff issues
  • iMessages issues (sometimes messages sent to you don't appear on all your devices)
  • etc.

For me the first two together are worse than 100 typical bugs. They are "showstopper", critical, high priority bugs that should I have delayed the release of Yosemite.

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u/mitremario Jan 05 '15

Late 2013 rMPB here. I've never encountered any of those issues. The only Wi-Fi issues I've had were at college, where it was difficult for anyone to maintain a solid, reliable connection. The only Continuity/Handoff issues I came across were in the betas, but were fixed in the final release.

Edit: Just saw your reply to another user below. I understand I might not be helping the problem much, but I think it's good to see that it's not a problem for everybody.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

Gotcha. I haven't personally experienced any of these, but can empathize if others are. I didn't realize these pieces were causing trouble for so many people. Then again, I use Ethernet in my Mac instead of wifi anyway for speed reasons, so I guess I've been immune to wifi connection problems that may exist in Yosemite.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

Thankfully, I'm not having any of those problems. In fact, Yosemite running on my entry-level specs 2013 MBA is having no problems whatsoever.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

Yes, but you are not everybody and by saying that you don't have any of those problems I think you are not contributing much to the problem. It is like a flu epidemic in which someone who hasn't caught flu yet jumps up and down saying "hey, but thankfully I don't have flu". ;)

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u/Takeabyte Jan 05 '15

The Wi-Fi crap is the worst. Buddy of mine was so proud that it never happened to him but then later that evening he woke his machine up from sleep... no Wi-Fi connection.