Apple Bye Bye

I’m on El Capitan now, and definitely haven’t noticed extra clicks or extra steps to any actions I commonly take, but I might not be taking the same common steps as others.

What I have noticed is Apple’s weird tendency to remove often-used functionality from applications and not return it. For example:
• In iPhoto, if you wanted to share photos with people, you could group them together, click “share”, and it’d chunk together a simple sharing site for anyone to look at them. Then it got fancier and let you put a quick website together, linking up with iWeb, and gave you free hosting space to show off your photo site. With the new Photos app, you can only use Apple Photo Sharing or whatever it’s called, which only works with other people using iCloud. So, no more sharing vacation pix with mom and dad.
• The Calendar app used to let you accept or deny meetings in-app. That’s gone now.
• iTunes 12.3 is a steaming pile of bad UX ideas.

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