The rollout of iOS 12 was amazing, it made my iPads faster... do that again, every time! :)
Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut
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I’ve always chosen Apple because there’s always been very little friction, thus very little frustration. However, the past year or two has been very frustrating. Taps on my iPhone 11 Pro sometimes don’t register because it’s in the middle of an animation or it’s just unresponsive. Moving apps around has become the biggest pain. Apps are killed in the background after about 5 minutes. Typing has become a huge pain to…
I moved to Android a couple of years ago as I was so frustrated with all the issues I was having (after being an iPhone user since the first iPhone) only to realise Android is the same mess of bugs and issues. It made me come to the conclusion that tech in general has just lost its path now, and the constant push for higher specs and more features has led to devices that suck at their basic use cases (but look at tho…
I wish I never broke my iPhone 8. The Xr is terrible.
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#243I'm genuinely curious, does anyone here know if there's an underlying framework issue behind so many iOS bugs? Because in my experience so many bugs seem to have something to do with some kind of underlying data or sync model (not even remote sync, just on the device itself). E.g. half the time I delete a voice memo, it re-appears 10 seconds later. Or maybe a quarter of the time I send an e-mail from the "Share" butt…
I can't speak to the specifics, but after working on a significant third-party SDK for iOS I can say that libdispatch isn't hard to use correctly, but it is easy to use incorrectly. Worse still, once you get yourself into a libdispatch mess it is hard to escape without a total rewrite.
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#244I don't use iOS much as I only have it on an iPad Pro, but Safari has this annoying thing where you tap a button or a link and nothing happens. The CSS changes so you know the tap event has occurred, but nothing happens. You have to tap again to navigate or submit a form. Of course this happens on all iOS browsers since all are running on Safari web views.
> Safari has this annoying thing where you tap a button or a link and nothing happens This might be the new heuristics to make desktop-class browsing work.
it’s most likely ‘onHover’ behavior since ipad now identifies as a mac, so probably most css/js is assuming you have a mouse most likely...
it was like this in the early ios days before css media queries
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve always chosen Apple because there’s always been very little friction, thus very little frustration. However, the past year or two has been very frustrating. Taps on my iPhone 11 Pro sometimes don’t register because it’s in the middle of an animation or it’s just unresponsive. Moving apps around has become the biggest pain. Apps are killed in the background after about 5 minutes. Typing has become a huge pain to…
I moved to Android a couple of years ago as I was so frustrated with all the issues I was having (after being an iPhone user since the first iPhone) only to realise Android is the same mess of bugs and issues. It made me come to the conclusion that tech in general has just lost its path now, and the constant push for higher specs and more features has led to devices that suck at their basic use cases (but look at tho…
Tech has always been terrible. What was unusual about the iPhone was it just worked.
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#246I'm one of the most staunch Apple supporters but even I must admit that since WWDC 2019, I have spent more time fighting Apple's bugs than actually using any of the new features...or the old features that used to work flawlessly (like iTunes/Music.) Not just on the user side, but the developer end as well. Perfectly valid code which used to work up till Xcode 11.1 throws errors inside the Swift runtime or toolchain o…
I’m with you. I’ve been saying more and more that if Apple can’t stay strong I don’t really like the alternatives. OSX and iOS were so nice together a few years back. Now they’re out of step and the design and quality aren’t strong. I don’t want Windows, Chromebooks or Android. If not Apple... (Love Linux, use Linux, but it’s not providing what I get from macOS.)
Hey - not related to your comment but wanted to get in touch. You left a note on a previous post of mine about wanting to simplify FTP. I'd love to work on this project and wanted to see if you'd be willing to connect so I can understand the problem better. Feel free to email me at kunal@mightydash.com, and thanks in advance!
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I moved to Android a couple of years ago as I was so frustrated with all the issues I was having (after being an iPhone user since the first iPhone) only to realise Android is the same mess of bugs and issues. It made me come to the conclusion that tech in general has just lost its path now, and the constant push for higher specs and more features has led to devices that suck at their basic use cases (but look at tho…
Tech has always been terrible. What was unusual about the iPhone was it just worked.
I think this is the important takeaway for founders and product owners. People will eventually take "just works" for granted. If you make that your value prop (and you should) it is critical to continuously invest in ensuring your product always "just works". It doesn't matter if the alternatives don't. Your users will eventually turn on you.
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#248There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…
> For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail.
Just in case you are still seeing this, I had a similar issue that turned out to be a bug in Gmail and how Google put old Hangouts (or perhaps Google Talk?) conversations in your mailbox. Some very, very old conversations of mine were for some reason marked as unread, and this was showing up on the iOS unread count, but not the one on macOS.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tech has always been terrible. What was unusual about the iPhone was it just worked.
I think this is the important takeaway for founders and product owners. People will eventually take "just works" for granted. If you make that your value prop (and you should) it is critical to continuously invest in ensuring your product always "just works". It doesn't matter if the alternatives don't. Your users will eventually turn on you.
I think it's an important take away for product owners - if people chose your product because it 'just works', they aren't going to be happy when you change it so it doesn't 'just work' -- i.e. introducing reliability bugs, changing useful features, etc.
They may not leave immediately, but at some point a competitor will come up with a 'just work', and it will be very hard to get them back.
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> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home. I'm administrating TimeMachine for my employer. It sucks so incredibly hard on a lot of points: 1) it requires the aged AFP protocol instead of Samba 2) No user-/machine-defineable quota, only one across the whole server 3) Extremely poor behavior in higher-than-10ms-latency scenarios 4) no way o…
Samba on macos is also buggy itself. I have to relaunch finder manually every day if I don't unmount all volumes from my nas, because if the device sleeps with mounted volumes, they won't be working until you do so.
Versions of macOS 10.7 and up no longer use samba. Apple wrote their own smb client.[1]
[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_1...