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iOS user here of a few years, never hit any of the bugs in this article. Maybe Apple didn’t fix them because the bugs never existed in the first place.
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> This is the objective logical UX. There is no such thing as "objective" in this arena. It's all subjective, the best you can hope is to find an approach that the majority of your users subjectively prefer.
I guess Apple should consider these user dissonances when designing UI (when users don’t read or ignore button labels)
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If you want to be that pedantic it does state "This site is satire. Not affiliated with Apple Inc. The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid." at the bottom.
The bugs are not real (inter alia, Mail app search does, in fact, work). Your being pedantic is my being reality-based.
iOS user here of a few years, never hit any of the bugs in this article. Maybe Apple didn’t fix them because the bugs never existed in the first place.
Maybe you just aren't perceptive. There's always a % of users that won't notice the most egregious bugs or design mistakes, just like there's a % that's way too sensitive to the most minor issues.
I've got one. When iPhone alarm goes off, the screen doesn't wake up, so I press the power button. Which snoozes the alarm. Not only did I not want to snooze the alarm, I hoped that the alarm would wake the phone up so I can click 'stop'. I assume that's a bug rather than a holding-it-wrong?
I believe the power-button-to-snooze thing is meant as a usability boost for groggy people: the physical button may be easier to click than some random spot on the screen.
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But the bugs never existed in the first place? I hate HN is rife with inflammatory complain pieces like this.
The search bugs in Mail are absolutely real. They might not affect every user but I've had major issues on both macOS and iOS mail, and eventually gave up and switched to Gmail.
I've got one. When iPhone alarm goes off, the screen doesn't wake up, so I press the power button. Which snoozes the alarm. Not only did I not want to snooze the alarm, I hoped that the alarm would wake the phone up so I can click 'stop'. I assume that's a bug rather than a holding-it-wrong?
Maybe there’s “the Apple way” that we’ve yet to discover.
> Mail Search Doesn't Work
For me mail search works very very well. Ironically, it's one of the features that convinced me to use Mail as my primary and only email client.
I'm wondering if the author of the rant is using the search input of the single message/thread, instead of the global one, or if they are not aware that the global search is by selected account, so if you want to search in all accounts you have to first select the unified inbox. By the way, this is another awesome feature of Mail, while the search string is in the input, you can switch accounts and see the different results per account.
Before anyone asks: I have 5 email accounts, between them, I have way more than 100.000 messages (might be 5x, I don't have the Mac now to check) and they're all synced on my devices (it's ~24gb of messages)