Well, I'm on the vacation or I would better say pause from my yesterday life. The reasons for that are not important here, what in fact is, is that I have taken one month off and disconnected from daily business life. I have booked AirBNB in Neapol and with no map started to walk around, watch, listen, getting closer to the city vibe. For sure, I did find that. And I have discovered one more thing. Well, Apple sucks. And sucks heavy not from the side I ever noticed.

Huston, we’ve got shut down.
We all hang around during business days in similar ways. Car, office, time after the workday, and then is all fine. You always charge a little your iPhone. But thing is, when You are on vacation, you spend all day out of the home. And with no heavy usage, You will find yourself in using maps, making some calls, few photos, listening to the music, or calling the taxi by any available application in the region (in that case it’s not uber or lyft). Nothing special. And guess what. You shiny new iPhone will manage to work half of the day. I’m using iPhone XS Max, so, to be honest, this is not what you expect from the 1,5K $ phone. Like for real. They failed, would not make it. Your phone just can’t demand to charge twice per day. If it is so, somebody failed. I have no idea who, how that happens, that elementary feature of the phone failed. Think about it in the broder perspective, would you accept LCD Screen which got issues with voltage consumption? Would You accept if your electric car demand charging twice per day? What would you say then, that it’s a beta, early version, but not commercial product! So on my vacation, as the addon was hanging Xiaomi PowerBank, which was great, but heavy as a heel. In fact, this Xiaomi powerband which I have bought for a bargain price with no expectations, surprised me a lot, then on one charge is able to recharge fully iPhone at least 6 times. I think guys from Apple should open it, and inspect how does that thing work.

Data transfer.
I know. I do not care in everyday life about data transfer, like who cares, but when You are abroad then you are, and then you start to think about it. The amount of data that is transferred all the time is hilarious. And I'm not talking about data waste apps, like Instagram or Music Applications, but in fact system. Updates, updates, and online working only policy. You even can not take notes on the iPhone when it's not connected to the internet. Well, that's insane. Do I have to write SMS messages to myself and making later on screenshots of them to make notes offline? Why notes app need connection? Are we completely insane? And all this security, software, even compass updates. Think about it. Apple as the operating system is like never done, always in development waiting for updates. And now think about the impact on the envirovment made by that. When you transfer all the time data, you are using the network, power plants, servers. So while I care about the envirovment a lot, while hanging around with my phone, I'm making a hilarious impact on the envirovment because of what? Software policy in Apple? I honestly do not care about the marketing future talks which looks good on CEOs conferences, and all this bullshit talk about how we get closer with people needs. Well, I have got one need. Stop cutting down the forest, making carbon footprint due to enormous data usage which is not needed at all. Change Yourself Apple. Turn to people and demands, just think, well this time really differently! Does anybody count what’s the impact of Apple devices multiplied by users multiplied average data transfer to voltage consumption and what is the carbon footprint of this data? I would love to see it, really. It's definitely the same approach as it was in the ’70s with 6,2-liter car engines. But guys, these years have passed away. For good.

Bugs and no fixes.
I think that it is quite easy to secure some things when You do not have to count money. Like testing software. Maybe the idea is wrong, maybe software engineers and testers should go on vacation much more often, to see results of their jobs. And if anybody could describe me, why when You are using Bluetooth headphones with microphone and FacetTime — and facetime is not capable to accept the incoming connection to the headset — would be lovely. OK, I called back, every time. This is a simple solution. But I have got this tiny expectation that when You connect BT headset and there is an incoming connection — then you will hear it on this headset. But no. It just doesn’t work. Any incoming connection is bypassed from BT to the phone, with no option to switch that. Ok, tiny thing. Who uses the phone for phone calls, right? At least not Apple. That makes sense.

Secondly, photo exchange. You are taking photos, that's normal. But still sync with the Apple computer is like the solution from the late ’80s. I'm using all that needed solutions, like Icloud, sharing the photostream but somehow, iPhone and Icloud and MacBook are not in the same environment even if they are on the same WIFI. Why? I have no idea. Before Naples, it worked very well. Maybe its amount of photos, data transfer, I do not know. And I do not want to know. It should just work always perfectly, but sync is madness. It even is when You want to share photos with your wife and you are not on WIFI. Then ok, all these messengers, whatsups and others to install, to transfer, to take the long road, visit 3 other countries to exchange data by any of the mentioned apps. Guys, that's the XXI century, rockets from Tesla are landing back on earth, and photo exchange on iPhone seems like an unsolved mystery.

Last but not least. Face recognition, that's fine unless you want to make payment by the wallet. Then you expose with payment like having the solo on the stage. This way of authorizing payments validates my privacy. I know the official story, no button is next step, answering the future call, bla bla bla. No Apple, waving around with the phone for a few seconds in public is completely privacy failure. Payments are a discreet thing due to many reasons. Public exhibition of amounts, cards is just not cool. And providing some bland mode, with no data on screen would be a nice gesture to your clients, which in fact, builds your brand.

But things changed a lot. A few years ago having Apple phone was the step into simplicity, now its step into the Apple world which nobody anymore understands. And things are getting just worst.

Cheers from Naples.
Piotr.