The only “instruction” you get when you a new iPhone is a tiny piece of paper that says you no longer need a physical SIM card. An eSIM works fine.
What Apple’s “instructions” fail to tell you is how to move from your present iPhone to your new (maybe better?), but very expensive iPhone. Mine cost over $1,500 — more than my latest Lenovo laptop.
They told me that I could seamlessly move by sitting my old iPhone next to the new iPhone and hitting the “Move” button. Great marketing BS. That’s how it should work, but it doesn’t.
Moving apps and data have to go through a third party called the Apple iCloud. Your stuff makes a many thousand mile trip to go two inches. Go figure, this is total Apple insanity.
It gets worse. My stuff wasn’t in iCloud. So I had to move it. The nice people in the Boston Apple store told me that. So I sat there and waited, and waited. My stuff moved slowly, ever so slowly. The “best” part of the move was the more data I moved, the longer it was taking.
Yes, I’d move 30% of my data. My phone said it would take 20 minutes. When it got to 40%, it told me that it would take an hour… Imagine, I thought, if I ever got to 50% moved, the rest could take all day. This was artificial intelligence at its finest.
The nice people in the Apple store eventually told me their Wi-Fi in the store was “slow.”
Slow? It gave slowness a whole new meaning.
I went home.
I put my old phone on my home Wi-Fi, which turned out to be faster than Apple’s.
Who knew?
At home, I followed the bouncing balls and my new iPhone 17 Pro Max came alive — with its usual nagging to take my meds.
Of course, computer stories rarely have a happy ending. My new phone won’t allow me to get into my JPMOrgan bank account or my Fidelity online brokerage account.
That’s it. How does one make a small fortune? Easy. Start with a large fortune.
It’s so comforting to be poor again. Thank you Apple.
Actually, Apple I owe you one, because I didn’t need what I might have bought, had I had the money.
Would I do this again — buy a new iPhone because it had a better camera, a faster processor, longer battery life, etc.?
The simple answer is NO.
I have an old adage that I obey religiously that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Will I go back to my trusty, reliable, lighter, smaller, semi-good camera iPhone 16 Pro.
Don’t tempt me.
The sad part of all this is there’s no one at Apple I can report my travails to, so they can fix them. Last time I sent a “suggestion” to Tim Cook it came back with legal BS that said, in effect, if they accepted by suggestion, or for that matter, even looked at it, they’d be in the legal doghouse. And I’d sue them for billions.
Fat chance, I’d have to get in line behind Donald.
Adobe, I suspect, is doomed
I use Adobe Photoshop every day to pretty this blog. But Adobe years ago went to “subscription model.” So today, I use Photoshop CS which I bought outright 23 years ago.
It’s not my stinginess that’s killing Adobe:
It’s AI.
Remember yesterday’s picture from an iPhone 17 pro max which my wife took?
Well look at ChatGPT did to it to make me “medieval.”
Then we asked ChatGPT to remove my glasses and give me a grimace:
This whole process took less than two minutes and was brilliantly orchestrated by my friend Aaron Gaylord on his iPhone. Aaron told me (with a smile) that “in French, ChatGPT means, CAT, I just farted.”
At a P/E of just over 13, many Wall Street analysts believe ADBE to be significantly undervalued.
It’s not the first time Wall Street has been wrong.
I love Instagram
This is the sort of Instagram stuff I see at 3:00 AM:
Diego looks happy?
See you tomorrow, or so. — Harry Newton
