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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org>
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Subject: Re: Your iCloud storage is full
Date: 9 Mar 2025 20:57:57 GMT
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On 9 Mar 2025 at 15:47:31 GMT, "Richard Tobin" <Richard Tobin> wrote:

> In article <vqkcve$18j8q$3@solani.org>, Jörg Lorenz  <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>>> Eventuallly I got in touch with Apple support, and after a little wander
>>> through the iCloud settings toggling things on and off, order was restored.
>>> But really, settings within settings within settings, it's a wonder even its
>>> designers understand it any longer.
> 
>> No! The logic is always the same. Apple has very stringent design rules.
>> That is the biggest and most pleasant advantage of iOS/macOS over
>> Android and chaotic crap like Windows.
> 
> Asserting that it's pleasant to someone who has just had an unpleasant
> experience is willful blindness.
> 
> -- Richard

It's also not currently true. Some of the most useful settings in
Settings are under the (i) links, for example. This is madness, they
should only ever be 'tooltips' style info not access to another deeper
panel of settings.

The Apple Style Guide as it was in the mid 2000s is long, long dead and
they just make shit up now.

And every time I go look at Windows, I'm still horrified that somehow
that is *even worse*

    Cheers - Jaimie
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