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Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by MomsAVoxell »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #107
MomsAVoxell wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People being able to organise their lives with their computers has been a thing since the beginning of the personal computer. The filesystems we have were never really the 'best' - just the most viable. The filesystem UI has been abandoned in favour of newer, better abstractions, such as 'just throw it all at the Cloud and let our analysis software give you a front-end to it, eventually..' I think users not understan…

I would seriously question if “throw it at the cloud” is actually better or if it only became popular because that’s what’s most profitable for companies to push users into using. Local hierarchical storage doesn’t give nearly as many opportunities for rent seeking and data harvesting. Cloud storage certainly has a convenience factor which is worth considering, but at the same time most people don’t actually need eve…

I think the point is that agency of the user over the locality of, and control over their data is based on decisions made by operating system vendors who, having 'given up' on trying to get users to understand the difference between folders and files, has figured out its better to just put everything in the cloud and 'own the tags and other abstractions' which come from a subscription service.

In any case, we see eye to eye on the convenience factor - it is inescapable, the success rate is clear - but we are looking at the edge case of things anyway, no? The future of Apple is an interesting one - we long term users surely can have an opinion. (Hacked my first Apple in 1981, haven't stopped since.)

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by p_l »

forgetfulness wrote: post #38
joshstrange wrote: post #12

> Putting Alan Dye in charge of user interface design was the one big mistake Jony Ive made as Apple’s Chief Design Officer. _One_??? Talk about rose tinted liquid glass(es).

The man left prior to Apple facing, and losing, a class action lawsuit over his favored keyboard design. Screens also died left and right in designs approved by him, and his next great innovation would be the Touch Bar. It was a precipitous fall from grace

Everyone focuses on M1 as supposedly super chip that fixed all the "intel problems" of Macbooks, but similarly large difference was how first M1 series reversed a bunch of Johnny Ive era designs including how forcibly thin it was.

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by cainxinth »

owenthejumper wrote: post #27

Funny enough, my phone upgraded to iOS 26 tonight, and I am like - what is this garbage, who though this is a good idea? And lo and behold, now I know... Immediately went Tinted mode, yet there is transparency where it shouldn't be, text overlays other text, etc...

I'm still on 18. I keep waiting for the all clear sign to upgrade. I take it, not yet?

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by andrewchilds »

My hope is this will lead to the reversal of the insane "HDR auto-brightness" behavior that causes any photo marked as HDR to go extreme brightness mode while the rest of the screen darkens:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254050878 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/436949/why-are-som...

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by phantasmish »

hyperjeff wrote: post #69
euroderf wrote: post #20

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The healing begins with a joint HW/SW effort: bring iPhone touch ID back, and strip Liquid Glass down to the bare wood and fix it.

+1 for the return of TouchID, but it’ll never happen. Having to orient the phone and stare into a bright screen all the time is sub optimal.

I want the home button back, TouchID or no. It's (I'm not joking) among the best applications of computer UI ever and it has not been obsoleted, they just abandoned it for worse options.

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by phantasmish »

blackguardx wrote: post #98
carlosjobim wrote: post #51

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Cell phones from other brands have Touch ID and it works great. Apple has Touch ID on their iPads and it also works great. As it does on the MacBooks. As it does on the iPhone SE. It should be brought back.

TouchID doesn't really for me on my Macbook or iPad. It has about a 25% success rate. I think one issue is that I work with my hands a lot.

It works OK for me on Mac, but all touchID drops to about 50/50 for me in Winter, under the (otherwise) best circumstances. Dry air, I guess.

On iPhone, specifically, it was awful for me. I was too likely to have wet hands (raining, just got out of shower, whatever—even dried, the higher moisture in my skin meant it didn't work) or gloves on or some other problem that made it fail. Trying to hold it the right way, one-handed, to get a finger in the right position (waaaaay down near the bottom) was also a high-risk maneuver for a drop, and was not a way I'd otherwise have tried to hold the device.

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by morgan814 »

ksec wrote: post #36

Here is an unpopular opinion, how about Craig Federighi replaced with Scott Forstall. It isn't just about UI design. But the whole software stack as well. iOS is still 90% the same as it was launched, and yet the apps management is still inconvenient to say the least. Along with copying all Android features, if I wanted an Android I would have brought one. The software stack, how many years has Swift been announced?…

> Here is an unpopular opinion, how about Craig Federighi replaced with Scott Forstall.

I'm with you there.

Forstall's skeuomorphism gets a lot of hate. It certainly got pretty weird visually. Especially on OS X where a leather-bound Calendar had to interact with other normal windows. But unlike what Ive and Dye have given us, Forstall's UX remained functional overall. I'm glad skeuomorphism is gone, but much of it was done to help the user. Just maybe a bit misguided.

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by nake89 »

skylurk wrote: post #22

Last week I was driving and a popup from apple music to accept more terms and conditions showed up on top of Maps. It was a tense 25 minutes of interchanges without nav before traffic was clear enough to deny the terms, and I purged the app and cancelled the subscription afterward.

The first time I connected my iPhone to my car through apple car play, it started popping up whatsapp notifications over my map!

Very bad first impression! I was shocked that they think some notification is more important than being able to know where you are driving. Notifications should not be on by default!

Re: Bad Dye Job

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Post by klabetron »

philistine wrote: post #87
troupo wrote: post #79

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Me feeling is that his sources are mostly programmers and perhaps some managers. It's also possible he has very few sources left: he's an outsider to the company, and it's hard to maintain sources since people leave, move to different positions etc.

His Something rotten in the state of Cupertino piece earlier this year broke his relationship with the upper echelons of Apple, and to be frank he's no longer inevitable as an Apple commenter. He cannot understand the European Union at all, so he devolves into saying they're idiots. Really? The EU, the whole thing, idiots? Really?

I don’t think we should conclude that a tech columnist who regularly shits on EU tech policy really intends to attack the EU writ large. If he sounds like he’s generalising to the “whole thing,” I’m pretty sure he understands most readers know he’s not talking about the entire EU experiment. Just the backward tech regulation.
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