Ik woon en werk in een van de 7 Emiraten; Ras-al-Khaimah. Dus, wil je weten hoe het echt zit in Dubai enzo? Dan kan ik daar op basis van ervaring iets over zeggen.
@parody you’re the lucky one because you use Siri in English, I guess. And then the results are deplorable. But, if you use Siri in other languages, say German (spoken by 130 million people) or Dutch (spoken by 25 million people) the results are totally useless or -even worse - completely wrong.
If it wouldn’t be Apple, the efforts would be endearing. But it’s about Apple, so it’s annoying and to the level of totally unbelievable that they messed up so badly.
@NotSteve_ @Sunshine that why I didn’t get the fuss.
Here in the Emirates; if I use Apple Maps, it still is “Gulf of Mexico”. So I thought you’re all lying! And making Tim and Trump look bad.
But now I get it.
BTW: Apple calls the Arabian Gulf the Persian Gulf.
Not nice.
;-)
@WhatAmLemmy @Alphane_Moon it’s a searchable and well-known fact that about 10,000 times the government of the Netherlands asked Apple to handover the keys of a specific iCloud account. It’s also searchable in the database of the Dutch government in about 6600 cases per year(!) Apple does hand over these keys. In about 3000 cases Apple refuses to do so.
@oakey66 @cantankerous_cashew even worse: give me two hours and I will give you 80 really handy IF THEN rules that Apple at this moment does not use. For starters: IF music is playing while AppleWatch is in workout mode, THEN skip that song in all-time favourites/ recommendations.
@TORFdot0 @meldrik why is it that so little people realize that the iPhone 13 mini was the best iPhone in the past 10 years?
Bigger = better? Forget it! I can do anything I want in my iPhone 13 mini and see people struggling with their phablets all the time.
Anyway, if the iPhone Air is bigger than the Pro versions, I’m seriously considering the Samsung flip.
@Andromxda I’ve watched the whole movie. Thank you very much. The only thing Apple has going for itself right now is just visuals, I guess. I’m trying to restore a photo library from Apple Time Machine by the way and it fails continuously. So much for the quality of the functionality. #butitlooksfantastic
@Andromxda @sith There are two things that keep me trapped:
For the rest…I switched to Apple in 2001. It used to my secret business weapon (I forced my whole company over to Apple), but those days are long gone.
Still hate MS-Windows though, so it going to be Linux. Anyone a suggestion for a Linux Airdrop and TimeMachine equivalent?
@D1G17AL @fourish That may be true and I would not spend that kind of money if it weren’t for the ecosystem.
And, since the DNA of Apple is building and selling hardware, it’s only logical that they can be a privacy advocate. At least more so than other big companies.
Final point: they are the only tech company with professional customer care (where you pay for, one way or the other) that actually helps and saved my ass a couple of times in the past.
@cantankerous_cashew This saddens me. It means people don’t really get that it used to be “the medium message” but now it’s “the device is the message”.
The iPhone is a thing to communicate with others one-on-one
An iPad is a thing to watch videos on if you like and to scroll through the news.
A computer is a thing to work with, if you insist like a portable one.
A TV is a thing to watch stuff together.
Customers seem to long for one device that does it all.
Sad.