Biggest asshole design moves - Hardware & Software

iTunes not storing purchased item information in cloud storage. "What's that? You lost all your files when your HDD died? Oh man that sucks, guess you better get started on re-buying all $150 worth of your iTunes music!" Replacing battery in an iPod costs as much as the iPod did brand-new. (abridged version: Proprietary batteries) Using button-cell batteries in toys when there's plenty of room to use AAAs in a WORST case scenario. Touch-click on laptop track pads always enabled by default, especially when you have to lift your finger several times to move the cursor across the screen by default.

[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;28528284]I mean drag and drop as it appears as a device inside your OS. not some propriatery program. iTunes doenst look paticularly nice and it runs horribly for such as simple program.[/QUOTE] Apple is just trying to sell some music it's really the only reason for it requiring iTunes. At the point I'm at with m computers iTunes dosent really bog my pc down but not everyone has a gaming pc. They really do need to work on the performance I don't even bother with itunes on my laptop let alone my windows 7 partition. [editline]10th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Zero-Point;28528445]iTunes not storing purchased item information in cloud storage. "What's that? You lost all your files when your HDD died? Oh man that sucks, guess you better get started on re-buying all $150 worth of your iTunes music!" Replacing battery in an iPod costs as much as the iPod did brand-new. (abridged version: Proprietary batteries) Using button-cell batteries in toys when there's plenty of room to use AAAs in a WORST case scenario. Touch-click on laptop track pads always enabled by default, especially when you have to lift your finger several times to move the cursor across the screen by default.[/QUOTE] This all of this man it's frustrating haveing to call apple to redownload all your shit and de auth the old install of windows from the account I don't reall undrstand why you can't download it more then once or diwnload it to another pc.

Proprietary screws. You can find the largest screwdriver kit on the face of the earth but there's always going to be that one damned obscure piece of shit screw. I don't care if whoever manufactured it doesn't want me opening it I'm going to damn well find a way to open it. Also proprietary MP3 docks, fuck you Apple I want to plug my Sansa into this device that doesn't have a Sansa equivalent.

[QUOTE=benjgvps;28528440]Remove your finger from the left side of the mouse, click.[/QUOTE] Ive never had to do that with a mouse. Ever. My Commodore 64's mouse doesnt need that, and my £15 trust mouse doesnt need it. I see yet another Apple product that requires the user to adapt to it, not vice versa. They frustrate me so much that I use my phone as a trackpad on the macs I am forced to use at school.

[QUOTE=moesislack;28528497] This all of this man it's frustrating haveing to call apple to redownload all your shit and de auth the old install of windows from the account I don't reall undrstand why you can't download it more then once or diwnload it to another pc.[/QUOTE] Don't forget that retarded bullshit encoding they use that requires you to convert it just to play in other software/devices.

Laptops that make you hold down the Fn key and use an arrow key to adjust the volume, instead of having dedicated volume buttons.

@zero-point. Never had that issue.

[QUOTE=moesislack;28528603]@zero-point. Never had that issue.[/QUOTE] I have... some MP3 players like mine make you encode the video to some shitty, proprietary format, instead of just playing the files you already have.

[QUOTE=Carl.;28528662]I have... some MP3 players like mine make you encode the video to some shitty, proprietary format, instead of just playing the files you already have.[/QUOTE] My philips Go gear mp4 player used to convert video into the most obscure format...

I don't play video on any screen smaller then 10"

[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;28528683]My philips Go gear mp4 player used to convert video into the most obscure format...[/QUOTE] Yep, that's my player.

[QUOTE=moesislack;28528603]@zero-point. Never had that issue.[/QUOTE] Apple used to have some fuck-tarded DRM format that I guess they finally more-or-less did away with when they realized people were circumventing it by just burning their music to a CD, then re-ripping it.

Yes I recall the format I never bought any of them and I heard you could redownload the ones that are in the old format if you so desire.

[QUOTE=Derpmeifter;28525640]I spend forever trying to figure out which side goes up, even in a computer I've used the stick in hundreds of times. It makes me feel all stupid :saddowns:[/QUOTE] forever? it's either one way or the other way, it's not like that one special lugnut on a car or whatever

I rated usefull but I mean aggree it's almost impossible to rate on an iPhone.

[QUOTE=moesislack;28528886]I rated usefull but I mean aggree it's almost impossible to rate on an iPhone.[/QUOTE] Had the same problem with my Touch 1G.

Laptops that don't have physical volume controls. The Fn+something key combination is always a pain in the ass (whoops I accidentally put my laptop to sleep!) and doesn't allow you to mute the computer during startup/shutdown.

I always spend several minutes trying to plug in PS/2 cables because I can never tell which way it's supposed to go so I always spend forever sticking the connector against the port and rotating it until it falls in place

At least you can't put it in wrong.

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;28530639]I always spend several minutes trying to plug in PS/2 cables because I can never tell which way it's supposed to go so I always spend forever sticking the connector against the port and rotating it until it falls in place[/QUOTE] I completely killed a PS/2 mouse a few years ago, I must have got the pins lined up with the holes at some point without realizing and continued turning it anyway to try and line them up. Bent the hell out of them.

m4a format.

[QUOTE=Atokniro;28530783]m4a format.[/QUOTE] .MOV format. Such a douche.

[quote=mtmod;28530796].mov format. Such a douche.[/quote] .wmv

[QUOTE=Dlaor-guy;28530926].wmv[/QUOTE] What? It's no .mkv but it's better than .avi and the like.

[QUOTE=nikomo;28527320]Not relevant anymore, but: Flash. If you fullscreened something on another monitor and then clicked on something on another screen, it would take it out of fullscreen. They've changed that but it still happens if the Flash object is a Youtube video that is still loading. You have to let it start playing and then click on whatever you actually want to be doing.[/QUOTE] That happens with everything. Ever. It's called focus.

The first iPad had no cameras... [h2]Seriously?[/h2]

[QUOTE=MTMod;28530796].MOV format. Such a douche.[/QUOTE] I love .mov's. I render in lightwave and output it as an .AVI, .WMV, and .MOV and the .mov is alwways the one that looks the most crisp and clear.

[QUOTE=Kevin Flynn;28531104]The first iPad had no cameras... [h2]Seriously?[/h2][/QUOTE] And the iPod Touch 4G has a .7 MP still camera. Marketing, brah.

Oh and asshole design move by Apple: Replacing the ExpressCard 34 slot in the 15" MBP with a fucking SD slot.

[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;28531131]I love .mov's. I render in lightwave and output it as an .AVI, .WMV, and .MOV and the .mov is alwways the one that looks the most crisp and clear.[/QUOTE] Thanks to the MOV's H.264 encoder. :smile: