"I caved to the blue bubble pressure" The fact that this is a real thing is ridiculous. Say no and move on with life. This is the type of freedom that is actually freeing.
Signal has blue bubbles if you care, and is hands down better for privacy.
Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#452Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently switched to iPhone for network reasons, and some UI/UX things are really shocking. There is no way to toggle location services without going into settings. The alarms are tricky to set and don't have niceties like telling you the time until your morning alarm. There is no clipboard history. They want you to use swipe gestures so much, the touch targets to exit fullscreen media are barely functional. If you…
It's even deeper than that. You know the fancy side button that is designed to be used as a camera shortcut? You don't need that shortcut? Guess that button is unusable for you, because you won't be able to assign it to anything else. Meanwhile the lock button long-press was hijacked for Siri, so now you have to click it five times if you want to turn off the phone. And don't get me started on the useless back tap, w…
If you long press the lock button and volume increase at the same time you can turn the new iPhone off. I can’t imagine doing 5 clicks to do this!
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#453I love the fervor with which this is written, but the threat is so weak I literally chuckled. Imagine your an exec or manager on the team for keyboard development. You read this, get to the end to discover the user is gonna switch devices for... 2 whole calander years? What's that amount to? Maybe 2 device upgrades on If your a die hard gotta have the newest latest model phone each year. Then what? you'll be back? Th…
I actually logged in just to upvote it. Just hoping to boost the signal enough that Apple will actually do something.
I have a similar countdown of my own but is less specific. I’m on iPhone 15 (coming from android) and I know for certain that the next time I’m on the market for a new phone it won’t be an iPhone. I also don’t need a new phone, but the intrusive thoughts to buy a new one are always caused by the faulty keyboard
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its a real issue in North America. SMS and as a result iMessage is the dominant text based chat. iPhones have become the default smartphone, and is a status symbol compared to Android. Mac vs Windows is similar on the laptop front. Which means if your an Android user in a relatively average social group: * You will get left out of group messages * You will be starting on a back foot in the dating scene On top of you…
> iPhones have become the default smartphone, and is a status symbol compared to Android. It does not function as a status symbol in the west. It's not a big deal to get one if you really want to and live in a developed country. People in asian countries making 1/8th of their american counterparts can afford iPhones. Someone making minimum wage in Germany can buy one using about 3-4 months worth of saved disposable i…
Unfortunately for us, logic isn't the arbiter of social behaviour.
Heres some examples
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1nt7czg/do_iphone_...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/14rhes2/friends_in...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Nicegirls/comments/1ja3iy4/green_bu...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/OnlineDating/comments/17xrue5/are_y...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/datingoverthirty/comments/b6w9iu/oh...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/f1i3q8/this_is_why_...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/rz4wlp/why_apples_...
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One more:
https://mashable.com/article/iphone-users-think-less-of-andr...
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why so agressive? You're making a conclusion from a tenuous correlation. I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing. Judging by the other comments here a bunch of people are in the same boat. I've been complaining in my social circle about it and have partially switched to Android as a result.
> I upvoted TFA because I've been annoyed with my Apple keyboard and them not fixing it. Not becaue I saw some other post on window resizing. That’s not what I said. Upvoting one post has nothing to do with upvoting the other. They’re two wholly separate posts, the one thing they have in common is (rightfully) criticising Apple for declining software quality. The point is that this submission isn’t special, as the pe…
Ok, it's clear that I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#456"I caved to the blue bubble pressure" The fact that this is a real thing is ridiculous. Say no and move on with life. This is the type of freedom that is actually freeing.
Its a real issue in North America. SMS and as a result iMessage is the dominant text based chat. iPhones have become the default smartphone, and is a status symbol compared to Android. Mac vs Windows is similar on the laptop front. Which means if your an Android user in a relatively average social group: * You will get left out of group messages * You will be starting on a back foot in the dating scene On top of you…
> * You will be starting on a back foot in the dating scene
Perhaps you should be focusing on losing weight instead of blaming the color of your text messages, lmao.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#457I love the fervor with which this is written, but the threat is so weak I literally chuckled. Imagine your an exec or manager on the team for keyboard development. You read this, get to the end to discover the user is gonna switch devices for... 2 whole calander years? What's that amount to? Maybe 2 device upgrades on If your a die hard gotta have the newest latest model phone each year. Then what? you'll be back? Th…
I’m a long term AAPL shareholder and even I see a bit of the hegemonic vibes. Little people can’t get the attention of large organizations without literally setting themselves on fire. Voting with your feet isn’t going to affect a trillion dollar company at all. Unless maybe you’re Dame Judy Dench.
Interesting idea: celebrity influencer for hire: pay a celebrity to champion your cause/make it go viral. Maybe do a "GoFundMe"-esque model (although, giving celebs even more money will probably not be popular... how about "$$$ for a charity of your choice if you talk about the stupid iPhone keyboard"?)
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#458> The iOS keyboard has been broken since at least iOS 17...But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty So the keyboard has been broken since iOS 17 (>2 years [1]), and to show your displeasure, you bought an iPhone Pro? Your threat of leaving in 3 months rings hollow. All Apple has to do is verbally say things will get better and, if they can't even do that, you only commit to le…
> So the keyboard has been broken since iOS 17 (>2 years [1]).
2 years? How is this even possible? This is a major bug affecting more than 1 billion iPhone users and they did nothing? And even the Youtube video is from 3 months ago. This is insane. Why? Only sane reason I can think of is that they are from a satanic cult and deliberately torturing 1 billion people in subtle ways.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#459I really wish someone could start a legitimate competitor to Apple. They are so bloated and just squeezing service revenue out of us. The M chips are great but the software is so buggy.
That competitor is GrapheneOS. For now, the OS runs on Pixel phones only, but they plan to release their own phone in partnership with an OEM. I expect that this will easily be the most secure and privacy respecting phone out there when it releases. You get more or less 100% Android compatibility except for a handful of apps that enforce the Play Integrity cancer.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#460Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sure, the video you link to is more descriptive, but it's a lot to ask of a visitor to click through and watch a separate video.
No, it’s not a lot to ask. That is assuming the user doesn’t first have to offer incense and whisper a fervent prayer to the Omniscient Deity of USB Devices to seize control of the mouse and click the link in divine intervention. However for most of us that is uncessary and clicking a link to a video requires no effort at all.
TL;DW.
I don't watch video complaints. I don't watch most YT videos except at 2x because by time the person who made the video got started saying what they're trying to say, I could have finished a text article version of the same thing.
Most people speak way too slowly for me to be interested in what they're saying, especially when they could have written an article that is more information dense and it typically shorter in any case.
Videos have value for enhancing reports, but are mostly useless as reports themselves.
So yeah, it's too damned much to ask to watch a video.