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My biggest gripe is the flashlight delay - swipe up for control center, tap flashlight, and the actual light takes easily a third of a second to turn on. I suspect that's also waiting for the stupid animation to complete. Honestly I feel like the people in charge of iOS have stopped using the devices personally. I have no other explanation for so much annoying crap slipping through (ok, other than some idiot exec bei…
The flashlight behaviour is odd, I just tried it and I got the same delay the first time I turned it on, but no delay after turning it on multiple times. It's almost as if the code was swapped out to a slow disk and you have to wait for it to be swapped back in before the first use. There's still no good reason why it should take such a noticeable time, though.
>Calling the generator’s prepare() method puts the Taptic Engine in a prepared state. To preserve power, the Taptic Engine stays in this state for only a short period of time (on the order of seconds), or until you next trigger feedback.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uifeedbackge...
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What's the unambiguous setting of 73:45 in hh:mm format?
3 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes. Simple. The Android clock app silently corrects 73 minutes to 1 hour 13 minutes. So for 1:13:45 (hh:mm:ss) you can input "7345" on the keypad and It. Just. Works.
I just bought my first iPhone in four years after a run on Android. Obviously neither are perfect but the experience so far has been startlingly underwhelming. I’m chalking it up to new release OS bugs as the hardware (8 plus) doesn’t seem different enough to warrant any issues. This kind of thing just seems like par for the course. I don't get it.
I’m still bummed they killed it. There are a few IOS apps I use that it was missing, but no dealbreakers.
I really wish someone would undercut the big three (on laptops and mobile) with an OS that was bulletproof, covered 90% of use cases well (and is ~10% as complex as the competition), and didn’t rely on ads/telemetry for revenue.
Screw platforms + ecosystems; just make it not suck.
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…
This. My 6 Plus is barely usable now, to the point where it is annoying the hell out of me. On iOS 10 i was fine with the 6 Plus and thought i could easily use it another year, but right now it's barely usable. I compared loading a banking app on my 6 and my colleagues 7 (closed it before) and the difference is astounding (2-3 seconds slower). Also everything is just laggy including typing and taking photos.
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...
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What's a concrete example of this?
Video games use animations as easy to project information to a player. If your character is “stunned” and can’t move, the animation should play for the duration of the status effect.
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…
> People are talking about "lag" and performance, as if this was a "the system can't handle it!" issue. This is a misleading description. Lag doesn't necessarily have anything to do with performance. I really don't think people are talking about performance at all. No one would seriously think that a modern smartphone could be dwarfed by a 35 year old calculator in terms of raw performance.
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Interesting. Bored before bed so ran a quick test using my iphone7 and Ios 11.x, Google's stopwatch. The time from wake to photo was ~2seconds (using the lockscreen short cut). The time from wake to home screen photo app to photo was ~5 seconds. * I had to start the timer myself then go back to using the phone so I believe I could cut ~500ms. Since I have Live Photo enabled, the 2-second shots actually have a few fra…
I really miss Samsung's 'double-click home button to use camera' on the Galaxy S6 and S7. Probably the most convenient implementation of a camera shortcut I've seen.
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Give up privacy? I thought it was with Android that I could root and remove all proprietary services (using e.g. F-Droid, LineageOS). Plus, you can set the window/transition animation scale to anything you want. The only thing iOS had for me was reliability and that seems to have gone out the window recently.
Being able to use an exploit to get root on your Android device is every bit as annoying as being able to use an exploit to get root on an iOS device (particularly as "getting root" isn't even enough on either device: you need to disable a bunch of random OS-level protections with a kernel exploit). There are a small number of Android devices with an unlocked bootloader, but in reality that just means "the Nexus devi…
It'll be a cold day in hell when Apple does anything remotely similar.