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comment by _refugee_
_refugee_  ·  3320 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name

The new version of the music app for iPhones is god awful.





am_Unition  ·  3319 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I deliberately snub and avoid all Apple software updates, but that doesn't stop them getting pushed through when I'm not there to actively opt out (don't get me started on that either). So I've just recently entered the phase of being unable to rid my iPhone of that damn U2 album, it's nice to hear I've got more to look forward to.

I jailbroke my last phone to have an SNES emulator. Now, it looks like I'll be jailbreaking this one to install a third-party app that performs an incredibly basic function - playing my fucking music and managing my library without all this DRM-integrated-cloud-iBeats-autopush bullshit.

Across the board, the managements of dominant software firms push for radical changes (often in user interface) that the user does not want or need. Now that I'm finally used to the Windows "ribbon menu" interface, I can count on it changing in the near future. But perhaps it's good for the brain, re-learning a new interface. Still pisses me off when I'm in a rush.