I want to meet the person at #Apple who decided when running #macos updates to allow the progress bar to get to the end and then go back to 0 again. What does “progress bar” mean to you?
Excuse the dirty screen, but this is the 4th time the progress bar has completed, then restarted back at zero. Is something wrong? I don’t know, because Apple has removed all useful information. Can I see a log? None of the log shortcuts work.
You might as well get rid of the progress bar and show a random sequence of numbers going up to 100 and then starting again if the update isn’t over. They convey exactly the same amount of information.
As per the Beastie Boys, you’ve got to fight for your right to party.
Well, OK.
But you shouldn’t have to fight for your consumer rights… but I did when using Apple Australia’s supposedly “easy” trade-in service for an iPad. It was anything but easy…
(A long read at Gizmodo Australia, because I’m stubborn about these kinds of things. It should not take the kind of fighting I had to do here to get a positive result)
I tried Pages in the iCloud and it's truly mediocre. Apple didn't even try to make a compelling product, and that's quite amusing to me. Google Docs, Microsoft, LibreOffice Writer are much better products than Apple's milquetoast offering.
With as much supposedly useful software they have, in a way, it's really lame that Apple hasn't been arsed to make Pages a great document writer/editor in iCloud or on one's iPhone. Seems like the Mac version has gotten the most love.
PSA: If your Mac is constantly crashing, giving you crash reports for: axassetsd, MauiAUSP, MacinTalkAUSP, or if every browser crashes on nearly every site, or if Settings|Accessibility crashes as soon as you touch Live Speech, all since upgrading to macOS 14.5, just delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SpeakSelection.plist and you should be good to go again.
That's a week lost I'll never get back. Thanks #Apple.