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Apple has also seemingly stopped caring about the quality and efficiency of their software. You can see this especially in the latest iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26 versions of their operating systems. They need their software leadership to match their hardware leadership, otherwise good hardware with bad software still leads to bad product, which is what we are seeing now.

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> Apple has also seemingly stopped caring about the quality and efficiency of their software.

Hardware has improved significantly, but it needs software to enable me to enjoy using it.

Apple is not the only major company that has completely abandoned the users.

The fastest CPUs and GPUs with the most RAM will not make me happier being targeted by commercial surveillance mechanisms, social-media applications, and hallucinating LLM systems.

iOS 26 is so bad. It's the first time I've really felt annoyed daily when using an Apple device. Basically on par with my Android experiences now.

i think 15.6.1 (24G90) will be my last mac osx... omarchy is blazing fast

I see this sentiment a lot, but I've found the OS26 releases to be considerably better than the last few years' OS releases, especially macOS which actually feels coherent now compared to the last few years of janky half baked UI.

It is frankly ridiculous how unintuitive it was to add an email account to Mail on iOS. This is possibly the most basic functionality I would expect an email client to have. One would expect that they go to their list of mailboxes and add a new account.

No. You exit the mail app -> Go to settings -> apps -> scroll through a massive list (that you usually just use for notification settings btw) to go to mail -> mail accounts -> add new account.

Just a simple six-step process after you’ve already hunted for it in the mail app.

There’s an “Accounts...” entry in the main “Mail” menu.

You can also click the “+” button at the bottom of the list of accounts in the “Accounts” panel in Mail's settings window.

I think the most most basic integration w.r.t. email I want from Apple is that I want to set up another email program besides “Mail” as the default email program, but without having to set up Mail first.

One of many reasons that drove me to create what Apple Mail _should_ have been ten years ago:

https://marcoapp.io

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