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I'm glad to see that Android is just as frustrating as iOS... it's just a completely different set of frustrations. (That's sarcasm). It boggles my mind that two of the richest companies on the planet can't fix this stuff. Here's my favorite iOS sharing frustration. Often I want to copy a link from Safari. Click the share icon, select copy from the share widget, switch to different app (or another Safari tab), tap pa…
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If it just used the last 4 people I had shared a message with it would be such a massive improvement. I feel like they're trying to do something extremely sophisticated and it's coming out far far worse than if they were doing something extremely simple.
Safari's url bar is problematic like that for me - half the time when I type 'fa' (starting to type facebook) - some place I've been minimally 30 times in the last week, from that browser, it'll popup some blog (that stars with fab) I visited once initially in 2015. The only reason I've ever been back to that fab blog is because of muscle memory keystrokes hitting 'return' on safari's flawed suggestion.
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This is due to promotion incentives. There's a much higher chance of getting promoted if you make up something new from scratch, stamp your name all over it and then during performance review demonstrate how many users it impacted so the committee promotes you. Often times people then move on to another team right after the promotion, rinse and repeat. Even though this issue has been acknowledged internally but the a…
Maybe the ladder itself is the problem. What does a "promotion" for a software engineer even mean?
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I don't think it's limited to those two apps. I use neither of them and I still have issues. Perhaps Whatsapp and hangouts add similar callback hell to the widget?
Whatsapp certainly does. They just need to implement some intent caching with invalidation callbacks that active apps can call (or push updates to). Seems so childishly simple from all the way up here, wonder why they haven't done it already.
You need to launch flashy products and APIs to have the promo committee look at your packet properly. Unsurprisingly, promo driven development ensues.
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Whatsapp certainly does. They just need to implement some intent caching with invalidation callbacks that active apps can call (or push updates to). Seems so childishly simple from all the way up here, wonder why they haven't done it already.
Because, at Google you do not get promoted if you make small incremental improvements. Especially not if you work on something that does not easily show up in metrics. You need to launch flashy products and APIs to have the promo committee look at your packet properly. Unsurprisingly, promo driven development ensues.
Whether or not they'd see the light of day is another question, but it's surprising that stupid issues like this aren't tackled more by the people suffering.
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Because, at Google you do not get promoted if you make small incremental improvements. Especially not if you work on something that does not easily show up in metrics. You need to launch flashy products and APIs to have the promo committee look at your packet properly. Unsurprisingly, promo driven development ensues.
Google isn't the only stakeholder here. Users and app developers could contribute improvements through AOSP. Whether or not they'd see the light of day is another question, but it's surprising that stupid issues like this aren't tackled more by the people suffering.
I wrote about this three years ago - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/08/sharing-on-android-is-broke... - using mostly the same examples. Google employees are mostly interested in building new stuff, not fixing broken old stuff. There's also no central design authority for Google's Android. Each team implements the same thing in multiple different way. Which is a shame, because there are plenty of people who would happi…
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Safari's url bar is problematic like that for me - half the time when I type 'fa' (starting to type facebook) - some place I've been minimally 30 times in the last week, from that browser, it'll popup some blog (that stars with fab) I visited once initially in 2015. The only reason I've ever been back to that fab blog is because of muscle memory keystrokes hitting 'return' on safari's flawed suggestion.
There’s a toggle in settings to disable it or remove that site, IIRC. I had the same problem until I fixed it that way.
much like the android stuff in the original article, it's just broken, and is a poor experience.
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There’s a toggle in settings to disable it or remove that site, IIRC. I had the same problem until I fixed it that way.
sure, but... why on earth is it there in the first place? why, after years of not going to a website, is it suddenly becoming the first suggestion, topping sites I visit daily/hourly? much like the android stuff in the original article, it's just broken, and is a poor experience.