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The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech
harrymcc writes "Over at TIME.com, I rounded up the year's dumbest moments in technology. Yes, the launch of Healthcare.gov is included, as are Edward Snowden's revelations. But so are a bunch of people embarrassing themselves on Twitter, both BlackBerry and Lenovo hiring celebrities to (supposedly) design products, the release of glitchy products ranging from OS X 10.9 Mavericks to the new Yahoo Mail, and much more." I can't think of anything dumber than the NSA's claims that metadata isn't data.
Seems fine to me. You must have mistaken it for iOS 7.
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OS 10.9 was dumb?
I'll tell you a dumb moment in tech: the moment you published your dumb article, you dummy.
Yeah, I bought it cheap and I tried it. $40 and it sits unused currently because even after installing Classic Shell and doing a lot of unpaid work to fix what they broke, I still hate it.
The NSA is spying on us all... and their powerpoint slides are ugly! HAHAAAHAAH!!!1!one!!11
Look - I'm not going to try and make the argument that we should all stop what we're doing and go on humor strikes until they shut down the NSA. But seriously, if you're so desperate for column inches that you feel the need to spin the Snowden affair as "dumb", then you really need to ask yourself whether you're Part of the Problem.
Tip for next time: be funnier.
systemd is hands down the most idiotic development in tech, and will continue to be for as long as that atrocity is inflicted upon the Linux world, whether it is 2013, 2015, or 2099.
As this is a more or less duplicate top-10 style list to the one posted yesterday, among many other "biggest foul ups" and "worst dressed" articles, the floor is open for meta-discussion.
I get that laughing at others' misfortune and fuckups makes sad people feel better about themselves and sells lots of glossy magazines, but you've got to admit it's all a bit depressing that we can't get past the psychology of school yard bullies and instead have at least one in five of these top 10 lists be about the greatest medical, quantum physics, and space exploration breakthroughs of the previous year and what's on the horizon for the next.
Celebrate good times, come on.
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I'm a peripheral visionary.
Mavericks removed the ability to perform a complete local sync
of an iOS device.
This leaves the Mavericks user with two choices :
1) do without the sync
2) sync via iCloud
Well, some of us aren't going to use iCloud, ever.
I wrote Tim Cook about this and of course that bean-counter did not reply.
I won't be buying any more Apple hardware as a direct result of the removal
of local sync. You see, I don't want to send my personal private info
into Apple's cloud. Yes, I know that if the spooks want my info they can
probably get it, but that does NOT mean I want to make it easy for them.
And now here's a little note for Mr. Tim Cook :
The smart way to do things is to ADD functionality but not remove functionality, Tim.
People like to have options, especially when those options "just worked". People
also don't fucking like to have options removed without NOTICE, Tim, you fucking
dweeb. Apple is already going downhill under your leadership, Tim, and I hope you
are going to be happy with your place in the history books as the idiot who lead
the company into the abyss.
I see where Apple is heading and I am not going to be on that ride.
And thanks for not answering my email, Tim ... Fuck You.
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I'm disappointed that /.'s beta didn't make the list.
But if you were a MS Shill you would be shouting your head off, at MS, over the twirlly icon? No? Right.
Doesn’t it seem like there’s been an epidemic lately of large, established and respectable tech companies rolling out “new” products (actually just unneeded and unwanted updates of existing products, but that‘s how it goes these days) that just scream FAIL!!! loudly and clearly to anyone and everyone remotely resembling the actual end users who will eventually have to work with the final badly flawed product? I mean, honestly, Windows 8, how the hell could MS not have known that piece of steaming crud was going to be absolutely despised by the overwhelming majority of users?? Or look at Yahoo’s forced rollout of their new and “improved” mail system, another supposed upgrade that no one ever asked for. It was met with universal hatred even when it functioned as designed, which it seldom did at first because, unbelievably, the software apparently never underwent basic beta testing. How does shit like this keep happening? I mean, compared to those turkeys, even the dysfunctional Healthcare.gov website rollout seems in retrospect predictable and almost routine. How is it possible, in this day and age, for there to be such an enormous disconnect between what people actually want, and what extravagantly overcompensated corporate executives think people want? What is wrong with the tech industry, or maybe even the capitalist system in general, that causes such blatant failures to keep getting approved and marketed to the consumer? Is this, as a commenter at one of the linked sites suggests, merely proof of the Peter Principle in action? Something is very wrong, surely, when such utter dumbness is continually manifested in an industry that is supposedly run by very, very smart people.
It's turtles all the way (up in this case.)
What about iCloud requirement? That pissed a lot of people off like myself. We don't want to use the darn cloud. There's no more local USB synchronization with Mavericks and probably for now on. :(
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Perhaps he would have responded if you'd been a little more polite. I think referring to him a 'Mr Cook' rather than 'Tim' may have made all the difference here.
I wrote the email. The email I wrote was exceedingly polite.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Of course that doesn't stop an idiot like you.
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