 There are a lot of things I don't like about the company Apple But one of the things I dislike most is how I underestimate how crappy their products are and It's embarrassing that I'll talk to somebody who has an iPhone number like oh, yeah, you should be able to do this You should be able to do that. It's just like common standard things and then I find out I'm wrong It's like it's like I think oh, no, they can't be this bad They have to be able to do this and then I'm wrong and it's like it's almost like I was defending Apple And they're just worse off than I thought they were so going back when the iPhone first came out You know you hear okay, you can't you need iTunes to copy your music over. It's I'm like and I knew that I'm like, okay Unlike most devices where you just plug in USB and you can copy files over you copy your music over You need iTunes that's pretty crappy But I'm like of course if I put it up on a web server you can download now This is this is like I don't know 2009 2010 whenever it just within a year or two of the iPhone coming out I'm trying to help a friend. He didn't want to use iTunes at least not at first and He ended up having to It's just but I'm like there's no way you go back in time It's like the you know the 70s and it's so pathetic that the iPhone can't do certain things that the that that Computers back in the 70s could do and now obviously we didn't have mp3's back in the 70s But you were able to log into a server with like FTP or whatever you will pull down whatever file you want there would be no mistake I just want to pull down this file and obviously back then you know an mp3 would be a huge file would take forever But the thing is you you technically could do it an iPhone Still to this day. It's 2018 If I put an mp3 up on my web server and send someone with an iPhone or an iPad the link they can stream it They can listen to it, but they cannot download it And at first that that blew my mind. It's like really How can how can you restrict that and and I was just embarrassed that I was told some oh, yeah Yeah, you could definitely do that Why wouldn't you be able to do that and it's just funny because it's like Functionality that is there. I mean the phone could obviously do it but they took the time to put in so that you can't and that is so ridiculous and Actually at the time again, this is old-school iPhones back in the day I tried to trick it. I was like, okay. Well, I can I can download a text file So I actually took an mp3 put it on my server. I was like, okay, I can rename it I've named it whatever dot txt. I'm like, I'll download it and rename the file Well, I download it and there's no option to rename the extension. I'm like, what and so I'm like, okay Maybe I think I converted to and well didn't convert it But I renamed it that html after that to see what would happen and I clicked on it And actually at the time if you took a large file like an mp3 a large binary file named it that html Put it up on a web server and directed safari to it It would lock up the phone for like five minutes and then finally the cook the phone reboot Which when I first did that's my friend's phone. I thought I broke his phone But luckily it got out that oh, but I used to have so much fun Going to the Apple store and just going to all the browsers and pointing it to my web server to the mp3 file I renamed that html and they would all just freeze up Nothing would happen and then it would get the Apple symbol that you know on the screen And it would take forever for it to reboot and just to stand there and watching the sales people trying to show people the devices And none of them were working eventually, you know after five minutes or so the phones would reboot and they would start working But it's just like so ridiculous Since then they they fixed that problem. I don't know if the new phones have More RAM so it doesn't just overflow everything or if they fix things in their browser so it doesn't overflow and then But more recently a year or two ago. I had a buddy who had an iPhone and Since then I've gotten him switched over to an Android phone Not that they're a whole lot better. I also want to make that clear. I Have an Android device. I love any device that I can get a root shell and a Linux kernel I'm good on and The Android devices do some a few things very well, but they could be much better So so I don't you know everyone some people are like oh Chris Chris is an Android guy He loves Android. I don't love Android. I use Android and I tolerate it, but compared to an iOS It's a hundred times better, but here's another example. My buddy. He was an artist He would make these sculptures and he was trying to enter a You know a competition or a gallery or something like that and he needed to take pictures of his work rename the files the name of the artwork and then email him to somebody and He came and asked me. Oh, can you help me with that? I'm like, oh sure no problem You know you take the pictures you know he didn't have a computer all he had was his his phone and iPad at the time He's like I'm like just take the pictures and we'll rename it You know so you go in there and I'm trying to find that you know the file the file browser But there's no rename option So I mean we spent 15 20 minutes and every every I found videos on YouTube Oh, yeah to rename an image file and all them it was you had to buy An application there was no free application device just couldn't do it itself You couldn't like on an Android device you can go into your your file manager Whether it be the default one on the system or or a free one like a maze is the one I'm using now Which is a free and open source one. It is you just go in there and rename the file It's like you put on a computer that I could not figure out how to do it without buying software So I said, you know what you know what we're not wasting any more time on this Email me the files. He emailed me the files on my phone I renamed them and then emailed them back and then he was able to email them to the guy It's just ridiculous again going back to the to the 70s if you had a computer in the 70s You could rename a file, you know the thing on your your your file system You might have a limit to number of characters in the name But you could rename a file whatever you want within those restrictions, but it's like you could rename a file and Again, you couldn't do it. It's just like and then more recently and these are just a few examples But I'm just like I tell people. Oh, yeah, we can do that You got an iPhone what we can do that we and then I found out you can't well I was talking to somebody about notifications and I was talking about how Now with HTML 5 standards you have Web push notifications, which I think is a great idea instead of I personally don't install very many applications I don't even use web notifications At all, but I think it's great rather than having a hundred different Applications in the background running on your phone checking for updates from their servers You can just have Chrome or whatever web browser you use. It's a standard HTML standard. It's been around for five or six years now It's been the standard, you know, and I'm like you just go, you know, you go if you know what I'm talking about if you go to like Facebook is an example in your web browser on a especially on a mobile device It will pop up with things saying do you want to receive notifications you say yes or no You say no it shouldn't ask you again, and you can go and turn that off all together if you don't like it Because some people don't like it, but you have the option there while talking to someone about that who has an iPhone Oh, yeah, you know and They're like One of the I was talking to two people one of them is like, oh, I don't know what you're talking I don't think the iPhone has that I'm like no no it's it's a standard. It's been around. It's part of the web browser and Later on the day I go home, and I'm googling about it and turns out even though it's been around in standard standard in It iPhone still doesn't have it and it's not that it doesn't have it is that they restrict you from doing it So even if you have chrome or firefox installed They limit you can't you can't have web notifications as far as I know So you're required to download all these different applications for all the services you use So if you want to get Facebook notifications, you have to install the Facebook app rather than having one application Handle all that which I think is a much more efficient way of doing it if you're going to get push notifications like that And again personally, I don't think I have any of those set up and I personally get notifications from my web server But I just have the web server texted to me which you get like a five to ten second delay getting a text, but I'm just amazed that again web browsers like chrome and firefox who have this function I built in don't have it on an iPhone and I'm assuming because Apple doesn't allow them for another example. This is this is another thing. Um, I love When I make a website or a web application, I create a nice little icon for it and I set it as the fave have the fave icon so that when you add to home screen it uses that icon well and on an Android device or Linux or Windows or I'm assuming Mac as well desktop device using Chrome it will use that icon if you add it to your home screen or desktop and Not on an iPhone first of all on iPhone Chrome and firefox the restricted I'm assuming that they're not loud because on an Android device I go into chrome It says add a home screen and I'll use my icon put it on my home screen that from the web server and It works it works great And you can even have it so that it opens up without the toolbar and everything again settings in your page So it looks just like a regular application on your device There's really you quit you can't tell that it's a web app other than a newer version of Android they added So when they put your icon, they also put a mini chrome icon on there, which is really annoying But other than that and hopefully they get rid of that Once you you add that to your home screen you can't tell that it's not a local application It runs just like it even has little use of that icon as a load screen when your page is loading. It's great iPhone you can't add Shortcuts to firefox or chrome as far as I know of the only browser I know that you can add icons to the desktop with a safari and again I'm assuming that's restrictions put on there by Apple if I'm wrong. Let me know which is annoying because safari if you go to like Web standards safari is always the last one internet explorer Even internet explorer seems to come out ahead of safari on that with functionality adding functionality like the the web Notifications, it's like these are functionalities. It's the standard since so-and-so and it's like Chrome has had it firefox got shortly after that internet explorer got up two years after that Safari still doesn't have it, but it's the only Browser that they allow on iOS devices to put an icon on the desktop that is so annoying But it's just to force you to use their products Which is also why they don't let you download music because they want you to use iTunes. It's all about control It's all it is. It's not even about money. It's about control which can make you lots of money But going on from there It's just so annoying and then moving on actually I was gonna end there But now I'm thinking about like with safari something else that's annoying about iOS devices in safari so I've written lots of applications for use at work making it easier for people to organize stuff and I'll use local storage on the device so you can go in offline mode and or it saves your settings into local storage now on in a chrome browser on both Android and and iOS as far as I know and desktop machines If you're in incognito mode, which is private mode and I set local storage able store that stuff to local storage until you close that tab and then it's erased Which is great. So if I have it, you know, for example, I work for the fire department I have you doing something and you set your truck so that every menu going to it knows what truck or station you're at I use local storage And so you don't have to each screen if you're falling out of form I go I'm at this station on this truck. It just saves it and even in the incognito mode It saves it until you close that window, which is great. It still works fine I had all these problems with people some people with iPhones It was working other people it was not and they were using Safari because they wanted to add the shortcuts to their desktop to make It easier to use Which by the way when Safari adds shortcuts to the desktop on iOS devices It doesn't use the icon you set it takes a screenshot of the web page and shrinks it down. It looks horrible. It just does But finally I figured out these people were in private mode They didn't even realize they were in private when they got into it by accident I've had people get back into it by accident without realizing it which really doesn't happen with Chrome It's like well you're in this if once you close Chrome those tabs go away But you can close seems like you can close Safari and when you reopen it if you were in private mode before you're still in private mode And it does not save anything to local storage during that session. It's like and My programs weren't working because it's looking for the local storage and it isn't there And it's just like why would you do that? I get this is private mode, but Clear it out after I close the browser don't don't prevent me from having that functionality just because I'm in private mode That's just ridiculous So and I'm sure there's some people argue. Oh, but it's more private that way. Let's not it's not it's not It's like I'm using functionality of a site and when I close it It should go away if I'm in private mode, but not while I'm in there But that's why I have local and session or yeah local storage and session storage when I'm making a choice when I'm writing the application anyway, so That's just ridiculous and again. I it's like why would it function like that? I would assume that it would function the standard just like every other browser out there, but no it doesn't and That's the annoying part. It's like this is how things are done This is how everyone does things and it's not that what you're doing is a better way of doing it You just want to be different and most of the way It's so you control that person it is annoying and I keep underestimating Apple I keep going there's no way that they won't let you do this and then I find out that they won't let you Do this and it's again it's they're going out their way to do it because it's standard functionality some of this stuff like renaming files are downloading mp3 is it's like They actually have to go in it and write programs that stop you from doing that so that you can't do that It's already the default, you know settings so annoying anyway These are the things Just a few of the things that aggravate me about Apple. I thank you for watching And I hope that you have a great day