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Quick, if you could change one UX that would maximize the numbers of lives saved, what would it be?
(For the purposes of this thought experiment you get to force all users to watch a 30 second educational video one time.)
Apparently Claudia is banned from there.
It's a weird blog. As well as the Claudia tooltip and throwing around 'autist' as an insult, the title bar at the top also has the 'title' attribute set to "Analogous to allowing transgenders to rewrite gay history. (Ask a Millennial who started Stonewall)", and it looks like there are a bunch of links/rants about "trannies" in the archives. Not that that should necessarily detract from what seems like a pretty reaso…
I agree with this, except for the part about the article being pretty reasonable. The valid complaints Clark makes are largely ones that could be made about Android phones. And many of the complaints are, as commenters here have pointed out, not really about smartphones at all (e.g., "this elderly person didn't understand they could connect to Gmail without downloading the Gmail app").
And, yes, I get that sociopolitical opinions are orthogonal to technology opinions, and that you can enjoy/respect someone's writings on Subject A while finding their opinions on Subject B to be a little bonkers. But it's tough to separate those subjects as a reader if they won't separate them as a writer.
Apple clearly needs to hire this guy. The only thing I disagree with is forcing people to learn many features during the setup process when you get your new phone. Pretty much nobody I know likes to sit there and read user manuals or be forced to watch videos or however that'd be represented.
I don't think Apple need to hire someone so publicly transphobic. https://blog.fawny.org/category/tranny/
"Trans-Exclusive Radical Faggot" springs to mind as a quick male alternate to "Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist" but it does have the slight problem of containing a word that a lot of people currently put in the "slur" category.
I have been an android-windows user for the longest time, and using Apple devices is among the most difficult things I've had to do. I have used windows phone, linux, chrome OS, Blackberry's palm-like UI over the years, but I have gotten the hang of each over a small period of time. Apple devices however, are simply counter intuitive for me. Apple seems to design UI for 2 types of people. 1. Old Apple users 2. The pe…
> Apple won't fare as well if they were to be evaluated by an audience unfamiliar with their brand and devices all together. Haven't they spent the last decade expanding into new markets successfully though? And from what I gather their new customer retention and satisfaction is among the best in the industry. People like to explain away Apple's success as merely the product of "fanboys" they've had for decades, as t…
Given the world's fashion industry is worth trillions, it will take a more persuasive argument than that to convince me it's not heavily influenced by people's perception of it as a status symbol.
> those customers keep buying Apple products because they have good experiences with them.
Or they've bought into the hype and that's all they experience on a regular basis anymore. My mom has driven a Mercedes for decades. My sister drove a cheaper one as her first car, and recently bought a much nicer one. Even if I wanted to spend that much money on a car, I don't like them, and have always had bad experiences with them. My mom's car was a lemon, in and out of the shop multiple times every year for the first 15 years, until it's been too unreliable to drive on a regular basis the last 5 years.
She's in a market for a new car, and both she and my sister are excited to get her a Mercedes. Their experiences should have driven then away from the brand years ago, but they haven't. Why do you suppose that is? I have my own theories.
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I don't think Apple need to hire someone so publicly transphobic. https://blog.fawny.org/category/tranny/
Holy crap I was not expecting to ever have to figure out a term for "like a TERF, except a man". I wonder if he is one of those straight-laced gay dudes who whines about how all the people out there being flamboyant for Pride celebrations give a bad name to all the gays. "Trans-Exclusive Radical Faggot" springs to mind as a quick male alternate to "Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminist" but it does have the slight problem…
Wow I have been an iPhone user for many years now, spend several hours a day using my phone (according to their new screen time metrics), and I did not know this!
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The “Tips” feature (Swipe left from home) points you right to the User Guide downloadable from the Books app for the device. It also prompts you with this info shortly after you finish setting up the device. It’s a 600+ page manual that describes every single button, gesture, function, menu, for every preinstalled app on the phone. There’s a section that describes most everything that has changed in the newest iOS re…
For those for whom "Tips" does not appear when you swipe left on an iDevice, you use this link† to download manuals. (There was no "Tips" when I swiped left on my iPhone, or any of my Macs.) † https://support.apple.com/manuals
iPhone User Guide
Before using iPhone, review the user guide at help.apple.com/iphone. You can also use Apple Books to download the guide (where available) or, to view the user guide on iPhone, use the Safari bookmark. Retain documentation for future reference.
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Another hidden UX: you can long press the keyboard and it'll turn into a touchpad that you can use to move the cursor (still not as easy as cursor keys but much better than the long press and drag method).
I use this all the time because it's convenient, but there have always been two things that frustrate me about it: 1) There's no way to scroll the text while moving the cursor by moving it to the end of the last visible line, the way there is with the cursor interface you get by directly touching and holding the text. 2) Sometimes when I'm doing this it will randomly select the word my cursor is over, and I've never…
Applying extra pressure toggles selection mode--you can further move the cursor around to select more text