Comment by Karunamon | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Karunamon | Hacker News Reader

Invariably it seems the majority of people who have these problems have done something to their computer. Either downloading an app they shouldn't have, or playing with settings they shouldn't have, or there's a hardware issues (power/memory problems will cause all manner of weird behavior)

Something along those lines.

The problems mentioned here are simply not shared by most users.

Show of hands, how many Apple users here can't get Chrome to work reliably?

How many iTunes users have had the app crash on them? I've been a fan of their products (software too) for at least a decade now, and the only crash issues I've ever had on iTunes were on Windows. (Apple's ported software is invariably crap) And I've got a library approaching 50k songs.

I've never had a problem with Preview corrupting files.

I've never had mail from the past appear on an iPhone.

Either I am incredibly, incredibly lucky, or these problems are rare and don't affect that many people.

And I am not that lucky.

I am experiencing the wifi sync issues quite heavily. My iPhone 5 might sync 1 out of 5 times, probably less.

I wouldn't say that iTunes is as bad as he says, since it's not crashing very often for me when using it normally. But every single time I plug in and iOS device it hangs, for up to 30 seconds, and at the end it either crashes completely or recovers. Note that this only started happening on iTunes 11.

I've had issues synching with the cable, iTunes telling me it just can't sync right now.

At one point, I plugged my phone in to sync it since it wouldn't over wifi. Except this time iTunes decided to re-synch ALL my music (over 4000 songs).

The App Store constantly harasses me to update the Twitter app, that I have deleted over a year ago.

I am on a late 2010 macbook air with 4GB of RAM, and I don't believe I have done something to my computer, like you say. It is working perfectly otherwise.

So you are saying that crashing not very often and delays that don't exceed 30 seconds are the signs of quality? I have around 40000 songs, this is why we have a different experience I guess. Each time I force-quit iTunes, I have to wait around 7 minutes for it to check the library when starting again.

I can assure you, I don't install anything I shouldn't, I just USE my hardware. Not just "sending emails, receiving email", but doing work on them all day, every day. And this is when the issues start to come up.

Only then you start noticing little things like how headers in those 'Group by' modes in Finder obscure the actual file names, that you can't sort files in the Open window, that every time you try to save the file with a new name it offers you to save to iCloud, etc..

I can't get Chrome to work reliably on OS-X or iOS. The overwhelming majority of "Spinning Beach Balls of Death" I got on my old MacMini and on my new MacBookPro were from Chrome. On iOS it just randomly crashes, and would occasionally munge up my bookmarks. (On top of that, Google's logic for checking if DNS is working correctly caused my ISP's DNS servers to treat me as an attacker and start ignoring me, so I would lose their DNS for some time after I started using Chrome. I eventually switched to another DNS server at router-level, but it took a while to find the cause.)

But I agree with you on the rest - these are not issues the majority of users face, and I've seen none of them. [Edit: Few of them. I'm somewhat sympathetic to stance that Apple's software is lacking in some polish. And Preview after Lion has been /less than helpful/ for reviewing batches of images.]

Chrome iOS is just an alpha version of an app, it's kind of strange that it is basically a wrapper around Safari and so buggy.

Thats a healthy dose of reality distortion. He lists specific flaws in specific applications.

I use Chrome every day on Linux, OSX, and Windows, and know for a fact that it doesn't get error 324 on every other page.

I've had iTunes running for weeks without gobbling all of my memory.

At some point he needs to face the facts that if he's the only person experiencing all these problems then the problem isn't the software, it's him.

I have ~40000 songs in iTunes, what about you? And Chrome was working fine until I moved to a new house. Regarding me being the only person with this – maybe you can tip the other guys in the right direction too? http://google.com/search?q=chrome+error+324

No offense, but you probably should have thought this through a little more before ranting on the internet about it.

If Chrome works for almost everybody else, and worked for you until moving, then the problem probably isn't that Chrome mysteriously broke, but that your new network connection is flaky.

In fact, almost all of the things you were ranting about could be explained by a bad network connection.

Seconded. I've never experienced any of these issues. When I thought someone was wrong or off with my MBP, it turned out to be another piece of hardware or software. I was never an Apple fan, and I've always tweaked even Windows. Likewise, I have tweaked my MBP here and there from a software standpoint, using tools build for it mostly though sometimes command line hacks. I run brew, replaced native BSD tools like ls and grep with GNU versions, no issues. It's a development machine as well, so it gets pretty punished. Again, no issues, especially none OP was talking about.

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