Their upselling techniques are so annoying, I deliberately cut all Apple subscriptions a few months ago and they still pop things up every day telling me to resubscribe to iCloud Pro Plus nonsense.
Idk who they think needs or wants any of this trash but I am fairly certain I can come up with an arbitrary number of things I want in life that are not more useless software subscriptions from an entity that has been extremely hostile to its professional userbase for years. In the last week I also feel like my MBP has been artificially hindered in performance and battery life after an OS software update, which doesn't feel like the first time.
It will be difficult but I see myself switching to one of the Ubuntu laptops that are on the market, like system76 or something. Apple just doesn't deserve my money anymore
I have a local music library, and it's annoying how everything I use has been shoved into a small part of the UI on the iPhone. Plus it occasionally pops up asking me to subscribe to Apple Music. I just don't need it. I discover new music through YouTube usually.
But iTunes/Music has supported that library since 2003 for me, so I trust it. 19 years, that's like 19 Google service lifespans! Even most software hasn't lived that long.
There's a toggle in Settings to disable most of the Apple Music features in Music. The Radio section (whatever it is, I don't know) still shows, but everything else is hidden, and I never received any advertising popups with that toggled.
Yeah, that helps, but overall the Music app is worse for me than it was in the iPhone 3GS days when it was centered around iPod features. Not a big deal.
Idk who they think needs or wants any of this trash but I am fairly certain I can come up with an arbitrary number of things I want in life that are not more useless software subscriptions from an entity that has been extremely hostile to its professional userbase for years. In the last week I also feel like my MBP has been artificially hindered in performance and battery life after an OS software update, which doesn't feel like the first time.
It will be difficult but I see myself switching to one of the Ubuntu laptops that are on the market, like system76 or something. Apple just doesn't deserve my money anymore