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Post by mulmen »

hnzix wrote: post #219
mulmen wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I turned off autocorrect a year ago. It’s easier to correct typos by tapping them than have to proof read for whatever properly typed word Apple changed for no reason. The original iPhone had a much nicer cursor behavior and placement was easier with a tap or a hold-and-drag than it is to this day. I forget when this changed, I think it was about a decade ago.

Tap and hold on the spacebar works pretty great for cursor placement.

Thanks, I didn't know that was a thing.

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Post by snowwrestler »

Lammy wrote: post #157
killion wrote: post #23

I think that Apple suffers from not having that person at the top with taste who was willing to say “this is shit”. The overall software quality has dropped markedly at Apple and the hardware more uneven since he left. There were misses under Steve like the Cube where there wasn’t a market. But the product was great. Now there is a market but the product is middling like the Watch. Yes the watch was started when he w…

> I think that Apple suffers from not having that person at the top with taste who was willing to say “this is shit”. It's probably just a coincidence but I can't help but notice how Apple didn't become a PRISM "Provider" until a year after he was dead, many years after the Googles/Facebooks of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#/...

If you read the Wiki page you linked, you’ll see that PRISM was just the NSA internal source name for data sourced via FISA warrants—which are not optional.

Apple had no choice to “join” PRISM; the timing you see on that slide was determined by the FBI.

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Post by esyir »

firecall wrote: post #211
omot wrote: post #207

The myth, that’s the Steve Jobs that I idolize. I’m not sure what he’s actually like or at what cost the world paid to fulfill his vision. There’s two events in my life where I can clearly recall what I was doing at the time. The first is 9/11. I was eight years old and I came down from my bedroom, my parents were staring at the TV in disbelief. I knew I was witnessing something important. The second is Steve Jobs’ d…

I loved the public person I knew as Steve Jobs! I was genuinely gutted when he died, and suffered from a form of grief! Jony Ive gave an interview recently to the WSJ! “I loved how [Steve] saw the world. The way he thought was profoundly beautiful.”[1] "Perhaps it is a comment on the daily roar of opinion and the ugly rush to judge, but now, above all else, I miss his singular and beautiful clarity. Beyond his ideas…

There has been a growing movement to pave over a person's achievements in light of some discovered sin, as though that immediately invalidates all they have done.

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Post by _ank_it »

bluedevil2k wrote: post #87
microtonal wrote: post #54

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The overall software quality has dropped markedly at Apple and the hardware more uneven since he left. Mostly on the Mac. The butterfly keyboard and how Apple handled it, were terrible. And macOS quality had gone down release after release. But I have never had any serious software or hardware quality issues with the iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods or any other products. It seems that they had just lost focus on the Mac…

Have you used the new Podcasts app? It can’t even do the fundamental job of a podcast app - “show me the episodes I haven’t listened to yet”

Podcasts app seriously has some big issues. I had an iPhone XR and it would heat the shit out of the phone, I thought maybe it's because I have an old phone but it's doing the same with my 13. I have subscribed to 50+ podcasts.

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Post by MarcoZavala »

m0llusk wrote: post #118
nostromo wrote: post #92

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Mac development started stagnating under Jobs though, once the iPod and then iPhone really took off. It's well known that Jobs was basically bored with the Mac and spent all of his time focusing on the iPhone. This is where having a single visionary in charge of everything (including small decisions) breaks down. There are so many days in the week and you can't be everywhere at once. Cook is the better CEO, and Jobs…

It is not true that Steve Jobs was bored with the Mac. Steve Jobs loved the Mac and would have preferred for it to be at the center. The thing is that Apple nearly died only just a few years before by not selling people what they wanted and by that time what people really expressed desire for using their money was personal devices. Apple had many problems dealing with processor suppliers over the years and probably w…

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Post by maxwelljoslyn »

mod wrote: post #78
throwaway894345 wrote: post #71

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I generally agree, although there are all kinds of issues on iPhone as well. The one that bothers me most often is autocorrect sporadically changing correct English words to nonsense, or the complete inability to select certain bits of text properly (even in Apple apps).

I'm so mad at all the phone keyboards for not having some kind of priority for predictive. And ability to remove words. There's some typos I get consistently and the correction is from a very normal word (probably, for instance) to a really seldom used word (poetically, in this example) and I'd prefer to remove poetically from my dictionary than to keep having it pop up. Repeat this for a couple dozen very common wor…

> I'm so mad at all the phone keyboards for not having some kind of priority for predictive. And ability to remove words.

Now imagine how frustrating it is having to deal with an additional layer of invisible predictions, silently changing a word after you've typed it and moved on, consistenly only allowing you to say "1/4" instead of "one-fourth" with nowhere to change it ...

I have to deal with this every day because I use dictation do most of my typing. Due to a hand injury (RSI).

I am someone who cares very very deeply about precise and novel expression. It is very very difficult to do that when I have to fight multiple layers of tools that think they know better, with no way for me to provide feedback to the system, as you say"Priority for predictive."

For instance, just looked at how Mack OS voice dictation chose to punctuate and space the string

> say"Prio

Above. Or look at how it misspelled its own name, in the previous sentence!

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Post by spideymans »

dd444fgdfg wrote: post #209

if the iPhone had never come out, I think we'd have monstrosities for smart phones with massive keyboards running windows CE. I'm glad it happened.

If the iPhone has never come out, I likely would not have been inspired to go down this career path in the first place. It was the first time I’d realized that technology could be beautiful and functional.

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Post by shrimpx »

killion wrote: post #23

I think that Apple suffers from not having that person at the top with taste who was willing to say “this is shit”. The overall software quality has dropped markedly at Apple and the hardware more uneven since he left. There were misses under Steve like the Cube where there wasn’t a market. But the product was great. Now there is a market but the product is middling like the Watch. Yes the watch was started when he w…

When Ive bungled the laptop line with the butterfly keyboards, I feel like somebody must have said "this is shit" and hence his departure and release of better hardware since.

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Post by neillyons »

hnzix wrote: post #219
mulmen wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I turned off autocorrect a year ago. It’s easier to correct typos by tapping them than have to proof read for whatever properly typed word Apple changed for no reason. The original iPhone had a much nicer cursor behavior and placement was easier with a tap or a hold-and-drag than it is to this day. I forget when this changed, I think it was about a decade ago.

Tap and hold on the spacebar works pretty great for cursor placement.

Thank you. This works so much better that tapping on the word to place the cursor.
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