iPhone Fold and Smart Glasses. Two products I have absolutely no interest in.

#apple #timapple

Oh, this is #fun.

#Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
e.g. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

#Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

Users don't care about software quality or «[…] the qualities that software exposes on the outside are largely independent of its inner workings» and other lies developers tell themselves.

Exhibit; Apple Music on Tahoe.

#TimCookMustGo #TimApple #AppleMusic

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm/116216540451476660

I am celebrating too:

My first year, without buying any Hardware (Mac, iOS Device, Watch, HomePod or Display) from Apple.

Here's to the crazy ones!

#thinkDifferent #timApple #voteWithYourPurse

Is #liquidass gone yet? I got an old iPad from my dad and I had no choice but installing it if I wanted to transfer from my older iPad. So i have been using it amd it is the worst. No way it is touching my phone no matter how many unwanted and unpermitted notificatios I get on the home screen. Which by the way, why am I getting notifications for that when they are turned off by me, who's effing phone is it?

#timapple #ios26 #apple #unwantedupdates #badgui

RE: https://loops.video/v/dZbimkqcbd

This is the moment that history books will pick to illustrate the obsequious, submissive, grovelling behaviour of our era once its over. #TimApple

When history calls on you to stand straight and do the right thing, its not always easy. But being rich beyond comprehension and the manager of the most highly valued company in the world could potentially help a little bit.

All it takes is for good men to do nothing.