No, it's not clear, thats my fundamental point. It's actually misinformation.
They call it a feature to create unique, random email addresses.... Email Addresses are for two-way communication.
If I tell you here is a device you use for instant messages. And you ask me, hey how do I send someone a message using this device? I tell you, you can't. That's because you are holding a PAGER.
No, because you didn't invalidate the cases for which it is used. People should continue using the feature if it meets their needs.
You also didn't address spam and security issues if someone is able to endlessly produce anonymous email addresses and send unprompted emails. This is almost certainly why Apple wouldn't implement this feature as you want.
Ignoring all your distractions and deflections aside, you don't call a car a car if it refuses to let you drive it. You try to find the clutch, its not there, there is not gear box, no accelerator, no brakes and you are on the seat and yell how the hell do I drive this thing?
And the thing talks back to you, hello Bob, please tell me where do you want to go?
Now you are not mad at it. You will happily tell it to take you to the nearest AMC to catch your film. Because its a robotic, self driving car. No car salesman is selling you a futuristic self driving car by calling it a car.
Apple clearly sold this feature by saying its creating a unique email addresses for every use. Email addresses allow you to send and receive emails. You can't do that, you don't call it that, you call it something else. Simple.
Seeing as most transactional email from businesses is sent from a no-reply address, it would seem this is a huge oversight to not allow someway for you to email the business using that email alias.
One question though - does it allow you to respond to a previous email and add a new email address in the "to" field?
Also, I don't understand why people would disagree with you pointing this out... Are they the Apple developer who developed it and are butt-hurt that someone is pointing out a flaw? Are they an Apple investor and can't stand the idea of any negative Apple press hurting Apple's share price?
Surely it is better if any flaws in software are pointed out so that they can be addressed.
So if I understand you correctly, say sales@business.com has sent me an email at hme-1@icloud.com, can I reply to this chain by adding another email in the To address, say, another@domain.com
There are limitations to sending email itself when using HME. You need to be using an iCloud Mail account only (i.e. email with @icloud.com). This is like saying if you want to be using HME, abandon your current mail provider and come into the Apple ecosystem.
Even after doing that, if you try to add another recipient, it complains that HME can be used only with 1 recipient. I tested this out on icloud.com/mail
Another case is lets say if we don't have forwarding email set to an @icloud.com email, which is the normal usecase everybody probably uses this feature. Their primary email address is either Gmail or Hotmail or whatever. In this, if i set another recipient, the mail contents will probably reach another@domain.com
but I am not sure if it will reach sales@business.com because the iCloud MAILER would probably complain the same 1 recipient thing and cause email failure.
Just look at all this complexity & for what? I assume you asked this like a hack to get it working. Even if the email worked, now I have to convince business.com that I am the same user that you have registered as hme-1@icloud.com. What business out there is going to entertain such kind of thing?
I was just wondering about the following scenario:
1. I signup with example.com using 'hme-1@icloud.com'
2. I get an activation email sent to this alias from 'noreply@example.com'
3. Sometime later I need to contact them so I create a reply to (2) and remove the address 'noreply' addresss and add 'support@example.com' which I know is a valid support email.
The disagreement is this post is calling for people to stop using it entirely, even if it serves a specific purpose and works for that purpose. The author claims because it does not cover their particular needs people should stop using it.
No mention of battery life. They keep making stuff thin, and unupgradeable. What's the point of buying an apple device that is going to wear out in 5 years?
That will also be true for any laptop that is not bottom of the barrel and got taken care of correctly by its owner.
I have non techies' friends using Windows laptops who greatly outlived any Mac laptop because of software support anyway, and as long as they are content with the performance they still work just fine.
The MacBook's lasting longer is just a meme at this point, any laptop of comparable price/performance will last just as long if you don't trash for some reason.
It depends on how many ships you have sailed. Have you worked at different companies and interacted with a good range of people.
If you don't have a lot of experience, you will learn it with time. Check out 48 Laws of Power. Your work also is not everything you have. It doesn't define you.
Criticisms are also not easy to hear because people don't know to give it well. Many times it could be personal. You can differentiate it by how its being framed, is it a comment on you or your work.
Hey Joe, your have become really lazy with your PRs
vs
Hey Joe, you have repeatedly submitted change requests that don't have good test coverage and have not been able to meet deadlines and it has been slowing down team velocity.
Maybe also consider a change of workplace if you want to start fresh. Going to gym and staying healthy helps too.
I doubt if majority of people would sit down to say "The pleasure of Busby's company is what I most enjoy. He put a tack on Miss Yancy's chair, when she called him a horrible boy." to even try out this feature
