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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

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Post by dgxyz »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #123
dgxyz wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android is more "here's a pocket panopticon we hope you won't unconfigure" Apple is more "here's this refined product which we designated as refined after a heavy session snooting cocaine off a toilet seat"

To be fair my iPhone spys on me in much more actively creepy ways than my android ever did. Showing ads for nearby pizza places at lunchtime on the homescreen. Telling me at about the time of my son's soccer that I may be interested in going to the place where his soccer is about now (despite me never using navigation on my phone) etc

Not sure how you managed to get it to do that. Mine doesn't!

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by causal »

sounds231 wrote: post #158

Highly recommend Nintype third party keyboard. Such a breath of fresh air to have a keyboard made for power users. The project is abandoned but it still works well. I hope someone sees this and gets inspired to build something to replace it. If you do you can have my money! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nintype/id796959534

> The project is abandoned but it still works well

Hard deal breaker. And alternative keyboards in iOS feel second class in some ways, so we really rely on Apple to get it right.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by mzmzmzm »

Liftyee wrote: post #6

As a lifelong Android user (in the EU, where Apple hegemony is not as strong) I always saw Apple as the "pay more for more polished ecosystem UX" option. So it always surprises me when things that are trivial on Android/Linux are sticking points on iOS/macOS. Worse, it seems that proprietary means you can't do anything to fix them yourself.

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 use browser extensions and a browser other than Safari, to change their settings you don't open the app that bundles the extension; you don't look in the menus of your browser or Safari; you dig several layers into Safari's app preferences to find the extension's settings. After such praise, there are so many rough edges I can't believe iOS users just put up with.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by latexr »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #169
latexr wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, this random person added a countdown timer, and after that revealed that when it reaches the end, if Apple hasn’t met some arbitrary demand they’ll leave the platform but probably be back (just in time to spend more money on another device) and that the colour of a phone is enough to get them back. This is one of the emptiest threats I’ve ever seen. This is about as effective as having a madman inside your ho…

Another random blog post about the broken iOS keyboard would not get any traction. This is getting traction. I'm pretty sure the author realized that Tim Apple isn't shaking in his boots, looking at the numbers going down. That's not the point, the point is that it's funny and interesting and thus getting attention.

> Another random blog post about the broken iOS keyboard would not get any traction.

Nonsense. Complaints about Apple’s declining software quality get a lot of traction on HN. Here’s another example from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997008

And lookie here, what was submitted within one hour of that post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996575

This exact same submission! Which didn’t get any traction then. The traction this is getting has little to do with the quality of the post, it’s popular because it’s another thread where we can air our grievances.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by Tempest1981 »

puttycat wrote: post #155

I keep an iPhone SE 1st gen as a secondary phone. It still has the last best keyboard iOS had. Almost zero mistakes. Probably because no AI and other overoptimizitation BS. Every time I go back to my primary 13 I want to cry.

Are you a swipe typer or a tap typer?

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by causal »

nathantotten wrote: post #132
BinStorm wrote: post #115

I 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 think this is the wrong read on the “threat”. One user going out of their way to spent time writing this post is a canary in the coal mine. Most users never give feedback, they just churn. This is the same reason your toothpaste has a phone number on the back - that one random person who cares deeply calls the number and provides invaluable feedback on the product. It’s not about the one person, it’s about that per…

Yup and it's clearly getting attention.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by vitorfblima »

ozzyphantom wrote: post #161
BinStorm wrote: post #115

I 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…

Don’t we all deserve a little whimsy in our lives?

Exactly. So many people missing the whole point.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by wtallis »

soperj wrote: post #181
wtallis wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would also be fair to say they didn't skip any generation of processors with that gap in updates, they merely sat out the first two years of Intel shipping Skylake five years in a row. And in the meantime, they did use those first two years of Skylake for the 12" MacBook; the next update to the MacBook Air was after the last update the 12" MacBook ever got. For a while, the 12" MacBook was the more premium, thinne…

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here. They sold old hardware for the same price 3 years later as if it was a premium product. They didn't really have an excuse, they've been the most valuable public company on earth since like 2010.

Selling an old model for a few years after its replacement shows up is not unusual. The only thing unusual here is that the 12" MacBook didn't end up actually replacing the MacBook Air in the long run, and the next major iteration went back to being called "MacBook Air".

The three-year gap in processor updates you're complaining about disappears when you recognize the 12" MacBook as an attempt to move the product line in a different direction, which Apple partially backtracked on after a few years. That course correction was quite a bit quicker than for the Touch Bar MBPs and the trash can Mac Pro.

Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android

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Post by vel0city »

actionfromafar wrote: post #60
bix6 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I shit you not there is a large percentage of people in the US that think Android phones are not capable of sending pcitures and videos. Source? Would love to read this one lol

It was kind of true a very long time ago except in potato quality. And if you were out of data, but was connected on WiFi instead, you actually couldn't. And you still can't text a large video across the Android / iPhone chasm, can you?

You can send decently sized videos between Android and iOS assuming RCS is enabled. Attachment sizes can now often be up to 100MB, where as with MMS you'd often be limited to maybe a megabyte or two.

I'm regularly sending/receiving gifs and decent quality short videos between iOS and Android these days.

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