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Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by artursapek »

jb1991 wrote: post #96

On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…

The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by afandian »

artursapek wrote: post #101
jb1991 wrote: post #96

On mobile devices, Apple’s Calculator app has always been one of the most frustrating apps I’ve ever used, and I’m surprised it’s a stock app by the company itself. If you press buttons quickly, like you would a normal calculator, many of the key presses simply don’t register at all. I’m not sure if they’re prioritizing some pretty little visual animation over actual functionality, but it’s incredibly surprising from…

The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.

I’m glad someone else noticed this. I never manage to unlock my iPhone first time.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by DavidPiper »

Comically, I didn't even notice those wobbly numbers in the first screenshot, I was too busy noticing:

- "Unicode" button label way off center

- The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position

- The indicators for bits 31 and 63 are not aligned with each other

- x and + not being horizontally aligned (I believe this is an icon-font issue, seen on HN before so knew to look for it)

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by artursapek »

afandian wrote: post #103
artursapek wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.

I’m glad someone else noticed this. I never manage to unlock my iPhone first time.

It’s pretty sad

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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isametry wrote: post #66
jval43 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notes has been super buggy for a while. The failure modes are so weird I don't even understand how it's possible for a text editor. E.g. text and selections rendered floating between or on top of lines of text. I wonder how they manage to bork it so hard.

Did this possibly start when they added “live” collaboration (quotation marks placed very intentionally) to shared notes? [0] says that was in macOS Ventura 13.1 and iOS 16.2. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rewrite the text editing engine in Notes, or at least parts of it, to accommodate for this change. And if there’s anything more terrifying than modern Apple rewriting parts of macOS, it’s them doing it for…

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Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by Seb-C »

afandian wrote: post #103
artursapek wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lock screen is even worse. I have to slow down to input my passcode or button pushes don’t register.

I’m glad someone else noticed this. I never manage to unlock my iPhone first time.

I have a similar problem on my Zenfone, there is a weird delay between key presses, especially when repeating a character twice, so that I often fail my password.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by countmora »

DavidPiper wrote: post #104

Comically, I didn't even notice those wobbly numbers in the first screenshot, I was too busy noticing: - "Unicode" button label way off center - The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position - The indicators for bits 31 and 63 are not aligned with each other - x and + not being horizontally aligned (I believe this is an icon-font issue, seen on HN before so knew to look for it)

> "Unicode" button label way off center

Its actually the center of the button, I made a video for context: https://imgur.com/a/1Y9O8dS

> The 8/10/16 selector being off center in its own position

Might be due to the image compression, it looks fine on my MB.

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by keyringlight »

DrNosferatu wrote: post #102

I would say it's a feature: it's supposed to be like a mechanical odometer.

Even if Apple were adopting skeuomorphism it would take a lot more change in design elements to support the concept that there's a mechanical system driving it, and for a binary display I'd assume a row of lights would be more appropriate to how this would read on appropriate machines

Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

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Post by crossroadsguy »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #82

> I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn’t There is: https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/ That said, it isn’t very user-friendly, and I find that they don’t seem to pay much attention to it. When they do respond, it tends to be some form of “#wontfix. Please close this.” That looks like a fairly ugly little bug. I suspect they know about it now, thanks to the HN Bug Reporter. It tends to…

It's not "not user friendly", it's criminally user hostile as a deliberate act. I know - incompetence over malice. But this is wilful malice of Apple to cover for their incompetence, so yeah maybe both. Not to mention the grand Apple opacity.
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