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Re: The iPhone X

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Post by charlesgres »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #47
dpcx wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it does read as a fanboy article, Gruber has criticized Apple at least a few times in the past. Here's one example, in particular. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/04/08/snell-3d-touch

Until he says Apple screwed up so bad that he recommends another company's product, he can only be called a shill.

The way I read that is that you're a shill as soon as you say something (even slightly) positive about Apple..

I guess for an Android fan it's not a tough call to be cleared of the 'shill' label, because there's plenty of fucking up going on in that world that even the diehard fans have to admit to it.. If only Apple would do us Apple fans the favor of royally fucking up from time to time so that we can stop being accused of being shills.. But alas they never do.. What a pity..

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by mikewhy »

Paradise_Pete wrote: post #93
mikewhy wrote: post #36

This bit especially irked me: "In iOS 11 X, almost every role of the home button has been subsumed by the display, with the remainder reassigned to the side button: - Wake the device: tap the display. - Go to the home screen: short swipe up from the bottom of display. - Go to the multitasking switcher: longer swipe up from the bottom. - Even better way to multitask: just swipe sideways on the home indicator. - Access…

Which five? I count two, but no doubt I'm missing some.

- Wake the device: Raise to wake

- Go to the home screen: 3D touch app switcher, tap any whitespace. It used to be even easier when your home screen had its own entry in there.

- Go to the multitasking switcher: 3D touch side

- Even better way to multitask: 3D touch swipe

- Siri: Hey Siri

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by doe88 »

jgruber wrote: post #80
doe88 wrote: post #54

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I don't have anything against him, I think in the iPhone X case he might deservedly be lauding Apple, their phone genuinely seems good. But more to your point, concerning watches I remember that for months on his podcast he was dismissive of the then rumored/speculated Apple Watch form factor altogether, he thought that if anything it would be more like a fitness tracker, and obviously once it became reality he uncon…

I think I missed the mark in several ways with my review of the original Apple Watch, but I complained strenuously about the fact that the display doesn't always show the time -- something I'm used to because I've worn a traditional watch since I was in middle school. I think I complained about not being able to read the display in sunlight too. The gist of my review -- and I still think this today -- is that Apple W…

Specifically I remembered this early conversation: http://podsearch.david-smith.org/episodes/1031#1538

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by tewha »

randomsearch wrote: post #19
endorphone wrote: post #2

"After two months using an iPhone X, I’m convinced Apple succeeded. The iPhone X is a triumph, a delightful conceptual modernization of a ten-year-old platform that, prior to using the iPhone X, I didn’t think needed a modernization." There's the tldr. And for anyone accustomed to Gruber's writing, it was a predictable conclusion.

I would agree with this summary. I think Apple knocked it out of the park this time, confounding my expectations that everything would be generally terrible post-Steve. They can reinvent something spectacularly well. But can they create something entirely new that is also wonderful? This is the real test they have yet to pass.

I've got an Apple Watch and AirPods. They're both delightful products, if non-interesting for a software developer like me.

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by tewha »

jsgo wrote: post #44

All in all, I'm pleased with the phone. There are some things that are pretty rough, though, and that compensating for the removal of the home button has caused a glaring problem. Shutdown being the biggest one so far for me. The Konami code that you have to enter in order to initiate getting the slider to appear is nothing short of amazing. I'm hoping at some point a button to activate the slider ends up in Control…

Shut Down in Settings, General works.

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by parasubvert »

ec109685 wrote: post #69

Some of the descriptions are so overwrought: My acclimation to the iPhone X has made using an iPad feel anachronistic — I want to swipe up from the bottom to go home there too. With Touch ID, after you tap a particular notification in the middle of the display, you then must move your finger down to the home button to authenticate. I always found that annoying. Now that I’m used to the iPhone X, I find it to be intol…

It’s called good writing. He has a unique voice.

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by jolux »

calibration263 wrote: post #86
Redoubts wrote: post #63

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Yeah, I was really surprised the long-press-left-edge wasn’t a gesture that made it to the X, among other things.

I loved that gesture, but I was shocked how many of my friends/coworkers didn't know about it. I think the iPhone X up and over arc is more reliable to trigger(once you figure out not to do up and hold).

it doesn't have to be up and over, you just swipe left and right on it

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by dbbk »

hungerstrike wrote: post #56
lnx01 wrote: post #33

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It's not failing though, it's selling more than its stable brethren combined: https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/26/iphone-x-outperformed-by-8-an...

Yeah - during the first month. And then people figured out how bad it actually was.

What metric are you basing that on?

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by ec109685 »

parasubvert wrote: post #106
ec109685 wrote: post #69

Some of the descriptions are so overwrought: My acclimation to the iPhone X has made using an iPad feel anachronistic — I want to swipe up from the bottom to go home there too. With Touch ID, after you tap a particular notification in the middle of the display, you then must move your finger down to the home button to authenticate. I always found that annoying. Now that I’m used to the iPhone X, I find it to be intol…

It’s called good writing. He has a unique voice.

There is too much Bill Walton in that review. We have an X and it isn’t life changing.

Re: The iPhone X

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Post by Mindwipe »

jgruber wrote: post #78
lern_too_spel wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until he says Apple screwed up so bad that he recommends another company's product, he can only be called a shill.

Which products do you think I should recommend a competing product over Apple's? On phones, tablets, and computers, I personally much prefer Apple's OSes, and I usually prefer their hardware as well. But even when I don't prefer Apple's hardware, the OS wins out. I don't recommend Apple's wi-fi base stations: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1370753

Photos seems like a good example of a product that is in such a mess that you should be discussing what a general user should use instead at this point. You even confess in the recent post about Marzipan about what a debacle drag and drop not working for a year in Photos is. But you've never written a piece about "why is Photos in such a mess"? Because it is. Basics of the platform still don't work, more than a year later (export original files and watch it hang, with no progress indicator! Drag and drop between applications is a joke!). Why not turn some light on that, why not discuss alternatives than general users should be looking at instead?
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