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Re: iPhone SE

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Post by venturetti »

jaysonelliot wrote: post #474
ino wrote: post #440

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Start using the keyboard trackpad for moving the cursor, selecting and deleting words, paragraphs or the whole text input. It's the killer app.

Unfortunately the keyboard force touch only works about ~70% of the time, which is too unpredictable for me to start incorporating into regular use as a user. It's odd that after ten years of development, Apple still hasn't made their keyboard just work . Selecting and manipulating text is still buggy and unpredictable.

It works every time. Just wait for the cursor to start blinking and then deep press. It takes a while to get used to but then it just works.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by puranjay »

giarc wrote: post #27
dham wrote: post #9

I'm one of those hold outs. I had a iPhone 6 for a month and it literally gave me anxiety because I couldn't thumb around Spotify and other apps like I was used too. I traded it in for a 5s and have been using it ever since. I figured I would have to keep it until they stopped putting iOS updates on it. Really glad they did this.

I predict they will sell a ton of the SE's. I'm in the same boat, the 5S was great and the 4.7" and larger screens just seem too big. I have been waiting for the SE to come out.

This will be my first iPhone. Love the size, love the price.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by sjwright »

robertwalsh0 wrote: post #248

I remember Jobs talking about never making a larger phone. I really wonder if it was a case of him caring about "taste" over "giving people what they want." There was some leaked Apple internal document where they said that people wanted larger phones. The post-Jobs Apple created larger phones to meet market demands. One thing that always makes me giggle, though, is the fact that if you double tap the home button the…

> I remember Jobs talking about never making a larger phone.

It's consistent with the Jobs style to completely dismiss the idea of a product that they are not currently announcing or selling, even when history proved he knew it was a good idea.

I've no doubt Steve was mentally locked into small form factor because it was the ideal for the product they were trying to build. The original iPhone sized to fit the market that existed at the time. It was a smarter mobile phone. The current iPhone is a pocket computer with cellular networking and a phone app. This transition was so subtle that most people didn't even notice it at the time.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by maccard »

bdrool wrote: post #600
maccard wrote: post #554

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Most of the apps that are installed on my iOS device are ~100MB - slack (140) Snapchat (140) Spotify (100) viber(100) messenger (97) Airbnb (97) Etsy/Yelp/Starbucks/ are all roughly 70MB - Facebook is ~150 I believe. The worst part is that all of those apps are pretty much webviews...

Facebook's app has a super-bloated > 100MB binary: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th... I think they have something like 150+ iOS devs, so they're almost up to a megabyte per dev!

Messenger is another facebook app, which is almost 100MB on top of having facebook installed.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by gbog »

I found 7 occurences of sentences starting with "And", it seems a bit too much to my ears. Having one or two may add some weight to something important, but if everything is important, nothing is.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by simonh »

grandalf wrote: post #150

I wonder if reverting to the iPhone 5 design indicates that the design of the 6 is viewed as a flop by Apple. I've dropped my 6+ so many times that I love the design (it's indestructible) but perhaps Apple's market research is showing that some people love the look of their 5 and are avoiding upgrading for that reason.

> I wonder if reverting to the iPhone 5 design indicates that the design of the 6 is viewed as a flop by Apple.

Or that the 5SE isn't seen as an important enough product to be worth a complete design overhaul.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by mattlutze »

sjwright wrote: post #664
mattlutze wrote: post #660

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This keyboard movement business is far from less necessary -- moving a cursor in text the traditional way, with that wonky magnifying glass and terrible snapping precision, can be borderline infuriating.

They could pop up a suggestion/tutorial the first time a user tries to refine a selection repeatedly?

Something would be nice.

Pop-up tutorials always make me feel somewhat intruded on and break the transparent assimilation between me and the tech; being reminded you don't completely control this thing in your hand (or on your monitor -- websites fall in the same boat) dampens my trust of a tool.

Maybe including it in tutorials in the system app. But, yeah something would be nice.

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by zimpenfish »

ino wrote: post #440
makecheck wrote: post #419

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You know, until you mentioned it just now, I’d forgotten my phone even has 3D Touch. It had been literally weeks since I last thought to use force-touch for anything, mostly because there is zero indication where it will work. And it is half-baked in the sense that when I do activate 3D Touch, it’s usually by accident. It is almost the same gesture as deleting apps on the home screen! I go to delete an app, press-and…

Start using the keyboard trackpad for moving the cursor, selecting and deleting words, paragraphs or the whole text input. It's the killer app.

For me and my stubby wildly uncontrollable fingers, this is worth the upgrade to the 6S almost all by itself. I use this multiple times a day and it's beautiful.

(I do use 3DTouch shortcuts as well and they probably save me a whole bunch of minutes over an entire day.)

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by zimpenfish »

LeoNatan25 wrote: post #571
madeofpalk wrote: post #535

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But it should also be noted there's a difference of importance between the discoverability for basic functions, like opening apps or moving the cursor 'regularly' in a text field. Then you have the discoverability of the shortcuts, or 'power user' features which you can do without Of course, this is all on a grade. Control Centre has a medium-low discoverability (given only a visual hint on the lock screen), and is m…

Deep pressing on the keyboard triggers a cursor movement (keep pressed to continue moving the cursor). Press deeper to toggle cursor selection.

DAMN IT. I knew about the cursor movement but not about the selection!

Re: iPhone SE

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Post by gambiting »

zootam wrote: post #479
bydo wrote: post #328

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Note that the price in Denmark includes VAT, whereas the price in the US is before any taxes. Though which comparable device would you suggest at a similar price point?

if one is smart, one can avoid paying taxes on large electronics purchases

It's always funny to me how people blame corporations for paying as little tax as possible, but do the exact same thing in their daily lives. If the law allows you to pay less tax on something, of course you are going to do it.
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