I have used computers starting around the mid to early 1980s. The first computer I used was an Apple 2e. (actually it was wrote as Apple IIe)
I have built my own computers. I am the guy that people used to come and ask questions about computers and software. For the last several years developers have been insistant on making things harder and more complicated.
It just took 40 fucking minutes for me to turn on and transfer the data from 1 ipad to a new ipad.
How the hell do you the software developer make things that fucked up?
I do exactly what was asked and the damned (new) Ipad just keeps looping.
For the love of all that is good in this world, if you are the developer that thinks this shit is ok, find the tallest building on the planet and jump. There is no reason to make things this screwed up. I hate you just as much as I hate trump, and that is saying something.
There is nothing that this planet would lose if you were gone from it. I am so sick and tired of dealing with shit products.
this is the sad thing. I installed and am using linux mint and that is a dream compared to some of this garbage.
Why do you feel the need to make things that just plain suck? It isn't just apple. It's microsoft. It's interfaces on other electronic items. Please just stop doing stupid shit. and if you aren't capable of stopping the crappy way that you think. Just go flip burgers at McDonalds.
Edit: These others have said you’re right it’s managers and boards, but there are pheromonal developers also the same way they just don’t get it. But you are right the majority of the problem is the managers and the system that has been created.
As others already said the people actually making the software all this time had little to no autonomy over what they are making.
At any big company even the head of an engineering department is subservient to the latest powerpoint brainfart decided upon in a weekly meeting of the marketing and sales teams, if it impresses the executives they're going to say "can you make it do this" and the expected answer is "yes and it will take about this long to do". And then go back to their desk and start figuring out how to make it work.
It works this way because we're a steeply wealth-sorted society and software developer money doesn't buy you into the "having a say in the direction of the tech industry" class, not by a long shot, and especially not in 2026. If it even puts you in the "ever going to be able to actally retire" class it's because you were already hanging onto the bottom of the investor class by the skin of your 401k.