>My general rule is: Technology shouldn’t initiate communications with me, ever. Ever ever. I call the shots, software needs to do what I tell it, and only what I tell it.
I'm with you. I get very annoyed even by Apple these days that often spam me about updating my system or some software. I do realise there's probably a system setting somewhere to disable these notifications, but I feel it should be the default.
Also what annoys me is when software 'secretly' updates in the background. I want to initiate software updates whenever it suits me best. Again, can probably be disabled on macOS or iOS, but I feel it should be the default.
Also Apple's Music subscription service ads in the Music app get to my nerve. I don't care for it and don't want to see it ever ...
As a dev I hate all the new security stuff that is being added to macOS, especially notarisation. It's becoming more and more of a hassle to publish apps on macOS and it already was painful enough with the certificates and profiles and such.
I do understand that all these annoyances for me are of benefit to the average user
These kinds of issues are part of what makes me annoyed with macOS and iOS these days. In the future I do hope to switch away to another platform (likely BSD, perhaps Linux) & perhaps keep a few old Macs around for legacy gaming and just having a nice, simpler environment to play in every now and then.
For reference: I've been a 'hard-core' Macintosh user since System 6.0 [0].
I'm with you. I get very annoyed even by Apple these days that often spam me about updating my system or some software. I do realise there's probably a system setting somewhere to disable these notifications, but I feel it should be the default.
Also what annoys me is when software 'secretly' updates in the background. I want to initiate software updates whenever it suits me best. Again, can probably be disabled on macOS or iOS, but I feel it should be the default.
Also Apple's Music subscription service ads in the Music app get to my nerve. I don't care for it and don't want to see it ever ...
As a dev I hate all the new security stuff that is being added to macOS, especially notarisation. It's becoming more and more of a hassle to publish apps on macOS and it already was painful enough with the certificates and profiles and such.
I do understand that all these annoyances for me are of benefit to the average user
These kinds of issues are part of what makes me annoyed with macOS and iOS these days. In the future I do hope to switch away to another platform (likely BSD, perhaps Linux) & perhaps keep a few old Macs around for legacy gaming and just having a nice, simpler environment to play in every now and then.
For reference: I've been a 'hard-core' Macintosh user since System 6.0 [0].
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6