re: When did Apple become the Boring One ?

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And then give no credit to the developer they just completely ripped off. Such a pathetic fricking company.

Exactly why I left years ago with so many others that worked in the jailbreak scene, I helped make complete themes for cydia with many others, and when Apple ran out of new ideas and started stealing jailbreak developers work and calling it their own, bye douchebags.

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I couldn't agree with this more. They have very little respect for the developers holding up their platform, and it's pretty infuriating. I went all in on hardware and licenses for several years to develop native iOS/OS X software. Once a problem arose, I was quick to let it go, but once it started to affect my workflow, I had to approach them. I've never been talked down to by so many people in my life. The worst part is that multiple times I was spot on on what the issue was when they basically ignored me. There's not much Apple can do about a few bad customer service people, right? Following the first set of issues, there was a few months of calm followed by complete hardware failure (MBP's GPU died). On their forums, there was a god damned 250+ page thread full of users who experienced the same exact failure. Apple had the nerve to quote me $710 to fix a two year old machine. Not only that, but the run around I received throughout the whole situation ("We haven't had any reports of that issue!") really left a bad taste in my mouth. At least when Jobs was still there, there was someone backing up the smug bullshite. The past few years have been pretty rough.

While I'm pretty bitter, I really think that Apple has just become too enamored with Apple. They don't seem to realize that both Google and Microsoft are pushing hard to take every single customer they can. The saddest part is that it was pretty nice to have a Unix machine with widespread compatibility.