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Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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btw, has anyone has tried deleting a note in Reminders?

yes it's so broken and if you delete a selected event the app crashes.

This (and more) happens on Windows 10 sticky notes. I wonder if they collaborated.

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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People are talking about "lag" and performance, as if this was a "the system can't handle it!" issue. This is a misleading description. The actual issue is that some developer at Apple screwed up their animation configuration when implementing the calculator redesign, and nobody tested adding more than two numbers together quickly. Multiple failures, none involving system performance. What's happening is: the operato…

Does iOS runtime not use evented I/O? Coming from web, I would expect tap events to queue up while the thread is busy with an animation.

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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I'm feeling extremely uncomfortable looking at these kinds of regressions. There's probably some Boeing/NASA engineer pulling out his iPhone and making "simple" but potentially dangerous back-of-the-envelope calculations like this. We already solved the calculator many decades ago, then brought it into many portable devices, the first iPhone and now we see a broken version of it on iOS 11.

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Capacitive buttons are a plague, man. Even the cheap new stoves have them now. Monitors and TVs have had them for a while. Cars are going for touch displays. There's a delay, they don't work every time, and you can't feel them out. Are they cheaper? I don't understand the point of them in the cases where they're literally just replacing a real button. The worst is when they don't even indicate clearly where the butto…

They certainly must be cheaper - no mechanical components, just a single wire (instead of two) connecting the pad to the micro-controller. And they are "fancy"/"futuristic". My lab placed fancy touch-screens in the place of the light switches. Now turning the lights on or off takes at least 15 seconds but we get to pretend to be luxurious :(

Do they work with gloves? Why not just a motion sensor with a manual override?

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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Capacitive buttons are a plague, man. Even the cheap new stoves have them now. Monitors and TVs have had them for a while. Cars are going for touch displays. There's a delay, they don't work every time, and you can't feel them out. Are they cheaper? I don't understand the point of them in the cases where they're literally just replacing a real button. The worst is when they don't even indicate clearly where the butto…

They are smooth. Seductive. Subtle. Slow and intimate, you like to touch them and they like it back. A soft sexy red glow that fades in and fades out as you massage your commands into it's willing display. You don't make sales based on how much people like using it, you make sales based on how attractive it appears while on display.

Well, I'm hoping that effect dwindles after one generation of products once everyone's learnt their lesson.

Re: Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator

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As soon as I upgraded my 6s to 11, I saw performance seriously degrade. It takes -seconds- to bring up the iMessage editor. My immediate thought was that Apple had liberally sprinkled wait() into the iOS 11 code base so that I'd feel like my ole A9 CPU just wasn't cutting it any more and I'd realize, as they do, it's time to upgrade. Or... maybe they are running every key stroke through the new Azure-enabled Cray com…

>>As soon as I upgraded my 6s to 11, I saw performance seriously degrade. It takes -seconds- to bring up the iMessage editor.

THIS! My exact experience and sentiment. The lag frustrates me every time I open almost any app (and then I get frustrated with myself for letting myself succumb to such a first-world-problem)

Is there any recourse? Can we disable some animations or other unnecessary features in settings?

Can we expect 11.0.4 or 11.1 to fix?

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