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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 browningstreet »

WarmWash wrote: post #38
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.

In the US Apple is the "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" option. Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone s…

This feels like 5 year old social media bullshit.. can we let it rest?

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

#52

Post by joe_mamba »

esskay wrote: post #41

Funny thing is theres probably some Apple employees reading this right now kidding themselves into thinking this is an end user problem. It's not - your keyboard is bloody awful now, you made it worse.

> theres probably some Apple employees reading this right now [...] you made it worse.

Apple employees reading this right now: "IDGAF about the keyboard, I made 500k in TC last year."

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

#54

Post by PlatoIsADisease »

inferniac wrote: post #40
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.

Their software quality really went downhill in recent years, really hope whoever comes in after Cook treats it as priority

Recent?

They have been last to get Widgets. They don't have apps I use (terminals, emulators, pulse wave generators). Not to mention Gemini AI is actually really nice for scanning a screen and doing actions with it.

Apple is always 2nd place or worse. Except marketing, they are #1.

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

#56

Post by MichaelZuo »

inferniac wrote: post #40
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.

Their software quality really went downhill in recent years, really hope whoever comes in after Cook treats it as priority

I would say Catalina in 2019 already had enormous issues, there were hard faults in Console pretty much daily that Apple never bothered to fix. (Plus hundreds of minor faults per day)

I had to downgrade to Mojave so the wheels likely came off internally around then.

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

#57

Post by PlatoIsADisease »

WarmWash wrote: post #38
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.

In the US Apple is the "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" option. Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone s…

>"Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you"

I see this in middle and lower-middle class people.

But in the upper-middle class, this is a non issue. We know how Apple manipulates people who struggle to spend $50/mo on a phone.

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

#58

Post by zdragnar »

WarmWash wrote: post #38
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.

In the US Apple is the "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" option. Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone s…

Texting images and videos to iPhone users used to be much worse than it is now, but it's gotten better in the past few years if my (Android) experience with my family (iPhones) is any indication.

The hard to tell part is I'm also crossing carriers to message them, so that might have been the issue as well.

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

#59

Post by amelius »

browningstreet wrote: post #51
WarmWash wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US Apple is the "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" option. Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone s…

This feels like 5 year old social media bullshit.. can we let it rest?

5 year old as in .. a child of 5 years old

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

#60

Post by actionfromafar »

bix6 wrote: post #45
WarmWash wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US Apple is the "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" option. Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone s…

> 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?
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