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

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Post by ballenf »

zimpenfish wrote: post #399
ballenf wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I travel to a good number of middle America small towns and consistently see small business / middle manager upper middle class men wearing them. No women, fwiw. The people wearing them aren't techie types at all which is why I'd guess the sentiment in tech circles is so negative on the watch's success. I think we're used to seeing our colleagues being the earlier adopters of gadgets like these, but the Apple watch e…

> The people wearing them aren't techie types at all Most of the Apple-using techie types I'm friends with have a Watch. Although as a counterpoint, at $WORK, most of the techie types don't (but also don't use other Apple stuff.)

I shouldn't have implied adoption is necessarily low in tech circles. What I meant is that I've seen a surprising adoption by non-tech people, making the proportion of the adoption out of the ordinary and harder to jduge using past experience with tech devices.

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Post by rocking_duck »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #294

I probably own more Apple devices than most people here (even considering this is HN we're talking about) because I do a lot of iOS programming and I have to use them as test devices. I also own the latest devices. But this problem is not some stupid complaint coming from uninformed people. This calculator thing was a perfect symbolism for all this bullshit that's been going on since iOS 11 release because the bug is…

Having exactly the same issues on my iPhone 6S. Camera randomly takes forever to load, and sometimes doesn't load at all (black screen). Since iOS 11 it's a 50/50 chance that accepting an incoming call works. I press the green button but it keeps ringing until the other person hangs up. Even physical home button becomes unresponsive, many times a day I have to do a forced restart (home button + sleep wake button pressed). This is infuriating!!

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Post by napsterbr »

11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #3

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…

Same here. I had bought my 6s after my 6 got stolen, so it was my first time using iOS 11. My two-day old phone was absolutely unusable, freezing for over a minute every once in a while. Apps wouldn't open at all! I couldn't change the volume while the phone was locked. I couldn't listen to musics, or use the lock screen music handler, while the phone was locked.

You have something really wrong when your smartphone can't open apps...

After one week I got tired of this shit and downgraded to iOS 10, which for now is working as expected. I really hope apple won't force me to update to iOS 11. (So here's what I did: I intentionally filled my phone space. Good luck fitting iOS' 1GB here).

Frustrated disappointed and utterly angry at Apple. This is definitely the last iPhone I'll own.

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Post by Aardappel »

This very problem is also an eternal struggle in game development when it comes to player character animation.

There's some people who wish to start blending into the next animation the moment a new player input comes in. This is great for responsive gameplay, but causes wonkey looking animations, feet sliding etc.

Then there's the people that simply want to always let an animation complete. It looks great, but obviously is very frustrating as your inputs get ignored and you can't react to things when you want to. Buffering inputs is not viable either.

Sadly, it seems in modern games the latter group is winning more and more. For example, in the Witcher 3 (which is otherwise an amazing game) orienting your character such that it is looking at (and the right distance from) a pickup is almost a minigame, since every time you tap a directional key to move in the a direction, an animation plays, which inevitably moves you too far.

I can't really resist playing games like The Witcher 3 anyway, but if I could I would "vote with my wallet" and not play any games that prefer animation fidelity over good player controls. Sigh.

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Post by napsterbr »

AVTizzle wrote: post #102
AVTizzle wrote: post #99

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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. 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…

Just googled, found this... "Some reddit users claim that resetting their settings (Settings --> General ---> Reset --> Reset All Settings) fixed all of the app issues, while others have restored their devices and set it up as new to solve the problem. Others have backed up and restored and had better results." https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/25/ios-11-app-slowdowns-pe...

Same problem, tried this and did not work. The only solution for me was to downgrade to 10.

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Post by logfromblammo »

dagw wrote: post #290
michaelmrose wrote: post #194

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Do we even have sales figures for the apple watch. All I see is made up numbers and guesses.

Apple claims that sales are up 50% since last year with an estimate total of 33 million watches sold. Apple is even calling itself the "nr 1 watchmaker in the world", even though technically I believe Swatch Group is still larger if you include all of its brands.

The last wristwatch I wore regularly was a Swatch. That was back around 1994. After that, I either used stationary clocks, the time display on the computer I was using, or a cheapo toy-quality digital timepiece thrown into a pocket of my backpack--the sort of thing you might get in a cereal box or a Happy Meal.

Starting around 2001, that last one got replaced by my mobile phone.

I'm not really seeing the use case for smart watches. But then again, I was never a fan of purses or fanny packs or any kind of jewelry either, and never understood fashion, so I'm probably never going to see the point of smart watches either. If I'm going to strap anything to my body all day, it has to be clearly useful for the entire duration, to overcome the discomfort and inconvenience. I'm just not seeing that yet in any of the available options. In every case, I'd rather put a wrist strap on my phone.

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Post by EpicEng »

silviot wrote: post #255
laichzeit0 wrote: post #228

Let's just be frank: If Jobs was in charge, everyone that remotely touched that app would pulled into a room, berated and told how fucking dumb they are, and told to pack their shit and find another job. Remember, he was obsessive about the first calculator app and hand-tuned it to his liking, so it's not hyperbole to suggest that he would be fucking livvid. [1] Asshole, but perfection requires assholes. Apple is reg…

TIL some people think berating your employees when they do a mistake is a good way to run a company. WOW! It's just so wrong at so many levels, I don't even know where to start. I'll leave a link to this video: https://www.ted.com/talks/brian_goldman_doctors_make_mistake...

I don't think that's what he's saying, but c'mon; it's a pretty dumb mistake. QA should be hauled in as well.

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Post by ashark »

akvadrako wrote: post #360
LeoNatan25 wrote: post #330

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Exactly what I said. It runs "fine" on 7, while it runs slow(er) on 6S.

iOS 11 runs fine and just as fast as iOS 10 on my SE. It sounds like you are experiencing a bug.

Aren't there, like... 3rd-party chat or emoji apps or something now? I don't use any of that stuff, but if only some people on 6-series iPhones are experiencing a multi-second delay opening the iMessage editor, my first guess would be they have some of those installed and one or more of them have shit the bed.

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Post by misnome »

mulletbum wrote: post #403
coldtea wrote: post #321

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Not the best example. Lots of bugs and issues happened under Jobs, but this was the usual press BS. The iPhone 4 went on to sell 50 millions of devices or so with that antenna and nobody in the real world had much of an issue with it.

Seems you are cutting and pasting, but Apple gave away free bumpers with the 4, so yes, it was an issue.

You also seem to be repeating your reply.

And the bumpers aren't proof of anything except perhaps marketing; they could have just decided that the cost of giving everybody free bumpers was cheaper than any brand damage they might otherwise have sustained.

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Post by epistasis »

dep_b wrote: post #351
epistasis wrote: post #21

Almost all of the animations on iOS are about 2x-3x as long as they should be. First off, they look terrible, the slooooooow change from one thing to another. Secondly, they severely impede usability because you have to wait wait wait for 1000ms here, 1000ms there, and another 1000ms there after every action. It's enough to make me want to give up privacy and switch to Android. Soooo pissed at slow animations. 500ms,…

The weird thing the constants for animation times in iOS are between 200ms and 350ms depending on what you do (segue, show keyboard) and I don't think they have changed.

You know, you may be right, but it looks like they are more frequently chained together. For example, unlocking the phone means both a fade up from black of 300ms plus a screen swipe away of 300ms plus however long the print recognition takes.

Also, the animation happens after whatever loading needs to take place, so if you just saw 500ms of still image while loading was going on in the background, the animation starts after all that.

Others definitely feel a lot longer than 300ms, such as opening the home screen when in an app. (I have reduced motion turned on, perhaps they have been slowed slightly for that).

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