An Apple A Day?

A light tech rant for the day:

Apple is perhaps my favorite to rant about... I love them, I'm a die hard fan, they're the richest tech company ever, and some of their issues are truly frustrating and just plain suck.

Macbook bro - built in camera auto-darkens the video capture when it thinks there is too much light in the room. Causes me to fade in and out from dark to light while video chatting depending on how far from the camera I am. No setting for that anywhere, not even in Terminal - have to buy a 3rd party app called iGlasses to do anything about it. LAME.

iPhone voicemail - I have a list of 30 voice mails... to delete them I have to click edit, select one at a time, then click delete. Takes forever. No select all, no swipe to delete just like their email app. After deleting all 30, and having 98 in my deleted folder, I get an alert saying my voice mail is 98% full. LAME.

Yosemite's new full screen (green) button on desktop windows automatically puts the app into full screen mode. LAME. I don't want full screen, I just want the window to be resized to maximum. Full screen means I have to switch desktops to see what's behind it. They never did get the green button right... Windows perfected it long, long ago - what gives? And when I minimize a window using the yellow button it disappears and is difficult to get back. Again - windows figured that out back when Madonna was En Vogue and Salt n' Peppa was Pushin' It.

Why the f#$% do you still have to 'Eject' a hard drive, or USB stick? I wanna pull that shit out and go - not get the 'removed improperly' error. I've improperly removed so many things from my Mac over the years that I technically should be surfing through more corruption than you can find in the US government, but everything still works fine. Have the hard drive auto-prep for disconnection when it spins down. Solid state memory like USB sticks should be instantly removable because they can't become fragmented over time. As my laptop doesn't have a CD drive, it technically can't eject anything any more - so why is it still trying to be old school?

I hear you're getting into the smart car business - I'm down with the idea of an iCar, but as long as that doesn't make my iLife suck harder because you're too busy trying to anticipate the next big thing to leave the last few big things growing mold in a digital compost pile the size of Texas.