I'm okay with Claudia being banned from the page. I still would like to not get reminded every time I set down my mouse on your site...
However, I am now dying to find out who she is, and why she was banned...
iPhones are hard to use
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a niche feature that has been there since at least iOS 4, (or at least I've known about it since iPhone 4, when I had the time to meticulously comb through every app on my Phone), but it wasn't actually useful until several interations of Siri later. Relationships is one of the features, to me that feels like Apple ended up building functionality on top of years after the feature was released, but since it was u…
> It's a niche feature that has been there since at least iOS 4 FWIW it's been in the MAC address book since the original OS X (jag-wire?)
Yes, the feature has been there since iOS 1.0. Siri on iOS 4.0 started making use of it to enable voice commands (e.g. “call Mom”)
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#393My mum is 68 now. I first got her a windows phone. I taught her how to make calls. That was it. Then a month later I got a string of text message. Hello Son Is This Working ? She worked out how to send texts. I upgraded her to an old iphone. I sent it to her in the mail. She worked out everything including how to take photos. I told her about LINE and she found the App Store and downloaded it. Her phone died so I bou…
Both my parents had a similar experience migrating from Microsoft Windows to Macos. It literally opened a new world for them.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
> People like to explain away Apple's success as merely the product of "fanboys" they've had for decades, as though the same 10 million guys who bought the first iphone are somehow responsible for the 50+ million phones apple sells each quarter. 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…
Most likely some kind of signalling behaviour.
Status signalling is what a particular kind of "rich" person does to indicate they are rich or high value. Often also used to bolster social capital. You see it when women buy extraordinarily expensive designer brand hand bags. Men buying sports cars but have no clue what is under the hood. The key element is not the actual product but the visible cost involved in actually purchasing it - expense as a feature.
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#395I'm okay with Claudia being banned from the page. I still would like to not get reminded every time I set down my mouse on your site...
However, I am now dying to find out who she is, and why she was banned...
The only article i could find with her name (if it's her at all)... but nothing regarding why! I'm also rather curious now.
https://blog.fawny.org/2013/07/02/transphobia-lexicography/
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#396Most of this article just lists semi-advanced features that people don't know about. I think that’s Apple’s intention... Having every feature and option up in your face can reduce usability and make simple tasks harder for the average user. Apple wants a product that's easy for anyone to use and that often means keeping non-essential features out of the way. I’d be more interesting in seeing feedback for Apple on how…
I get that, but I do think that saying that text size is an advanced feature is just not true. Loads and loads of people are older than 40. Loads of people just have weaker eyesight. Apple has really good accessibility tools, and it would make a _lot_ of sense for there to be a dedicated part of the onboarding for accessibility.
not really 'good' tools, but they have tools for that that they should put forward
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#397Bah. Dumb article. All phones are hard to use. Nothing is really mechanically intuitive anymore, except for some well-designed mechanical things.
Phones can only go so far to give use good, mechanical intuitiveness. Press a button, see what it does. Now make an object to 500 different things and obviously only the most important things for the majority of the population will be easy to access, even if it’s not intuitive, because of icons.
Basically this forced us to move from mechanical thinking to something less concrete (digital, non-analog) which is something many older people and those with disabilities may have a harder time adapting to.
Android, iPhones, “smart” TVs, they are all confusing to some extent.
The problem isn’t iphones or androids, the problem is how we design things. The digital world is still very bad at doing things intuitively for a brain that starts life in a very physical, mechanical world.
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#398My iPhone usability peeve is the lack of an authoritative, comprehensive reference manual. I know lots of intelligent people who lack “technical affinity” but are nevertheless perfectly capable of reading.
The iPhone gets a lot right in terms of discoverability and usability of 90% of its functionality, but that last 10% is frustratingly hard to find definitive answers for.
There’s also a further 10%: The functionality you think the iPhone might or should have, but doesn’t. Good luck getting any official source to confirm though. You are left to trawl helpless forums.
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#399You can put it in control center and have it be about as easily adjustable as brightness. It‘s not there by default and hard to discover, but adjusting your text size all the time really is a bit of a niche feature.
I‘m really not sure what else Apple could do other than:
- Asking during onboarding
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#400IPad Air 9.7". Notification centre on lock screen used to have two columns. I used to fill the screen with widgets and have it as a dashboard. Now due to various updates I'm stuck with one column and half the screen wasted. It's even worse on iPad Pro 12.9".
There's no apparent way to fix this bad UI design.
So now I have a raspberry pi do the same task with no issues. Bonus feature is that no update can remove this functionality again.