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Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by wolvoleo »

direwolf20 wrote: post #309
nake89 wrote: post #198

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Slightly off-topic, but stuff like this does not just happen at Apple. When Cyberpunk 2077 came out, my wife bought it with her credit card and gifted the game to me. It was fine at first. I even managed to play through the game. However when coming back to the game a few months later (to see all the bugfixes), it was gone. I contacted the (gog) and they said it was removed due to automatic fraud detection and that t…

Since it's gog at least you could download the game and save it somewhere.

True but if you never did then you're SOL

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by IshKebab »

phforms wrote: post #280
BitsAndObjects wrote: post #33

Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw o…

Years ago, someone demonstrated an improved mobile text editing system called "Eloquent" [1] and I wish this would be the default today. However, my biggest issue with mobile text selection is accidental scrolling or scrolling too fast/far while dragging on the screen to select longer text parts. This is especially annoying in landscape mode when there is just a tiny gap between the visible text and the touch keyboar…

That looks so much better. The hierarchical popup menu is soooo annoying. It's not even consistent about what gets relegated to the overflow!

In case it isn't clear to people, that research was actually done by Google. It's a shame the researchers didn't have the political clout to ship it.

I guess one issue with it might be the "press harder" bit. That isn't a thing anywhere else in the Android world at all and I expect hardware has pretty poor support for it.

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Post by pjmlp »

coryfklein wrote: post #372
lloeki wrote: post #274

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Finder has stopped being a spatial file manager for a long time, but still mistakenly tries to behave like one in too many places, probably because of lingering legacy code more than a particular intent. IMHO they should simply rip the spatial bits out entirely and it would immediately become a better file manager purely from the restored consistency.

What the heck is a spatial file manager

Besides the sibling comments, it is how Finder used to work in Mac OS Classic.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by pjmlp »

mlrtime wrote: post #304
InMice wrote: post #236

Clicking on folders that you have put in Finders sidebar - It will not display the folder with the view settings set for that folder, but instead the last folder you clicked in the sidebar. It seems to happen clicking from top to bottom vs bottom to top. You just cant make this sh*t up it's so bad. Example sidebar: Applications - Always shows as icons Documents - Shows as icons if you last clicked on Applications. Sh…

Switched from Windows to Macos years ago after work gave me a macbook pro. As life long ThinkPad red nipple guy, I love it. The finder is the one thing I think Windows does marginally better with Explorer.

If only Explorer had a better extension mechanism than dealing with inproc COM in C++.

It would be about time to have better IPC mechanisms out of process.

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Post by vachina »

ripley12 wrote: post #465
vachina wrote: post #147

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Have you checked if it’s the fault of your mail providers? The search function queries the remote mail servers in addition to the local cache. If the mail servers return garbage you get garbage results.

This was with an iCloud email address.

Maybe iCloud search is rubbish.

Mail search works flawlessly for me with Gmail and Outlook. It takes a sec but the results are always relevant.

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Post by throw4r533233 »

VerifiedReports wrote: post #123
postalcoder wrote: post #29

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Apple also makes it a biznatch to make a developer account separate from your personal account. In Apple's ideal world, multiple accounts should in no circumstance ever exist. I, in an ideal world, would agree with this. But we live in this world, where Apple bans accounts for redeeming legitimate gift cards.

And yet Apple CREATED the multiple-accounts problem for millions of people by implementing their idiotic "Apple ID must be an E-mail address" policy. So of course people thought that when they changed jobs, cable companies, or whatever... they needed to create a new Apple ID with their new E-mail address. This was reinforced when Apple further stupidified their policy by requiring your ID to be a WORKING E-mail addre…

It’s also a huge pain for those of us who might regularly visit or live part of the year in another country.

I basically need two Apple IDs because switching the region for your App Store is very inconvenient if you have any subscriptions.

In the end, I have separate Apple IDs for each country.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by secretsatan »

lloeki wrote: post #282
jmaker wrote: post #190

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I submitted this YouTube video (not mine) a while ago here that demonstrates typing issues that I also encountered on several iPhones: [It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken]( https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo )

Oh my thanks for that, I thought I was going crazy. The one that keeps getting to me is that iOS insists on putting periods instead of spaces when I only pressed the space bar once so.I.end.up.with.sentences.like.this. (when it starts doing it it can be extremely consistent); yes I know about the double space -> period shortcut but like in the video that's not it. There was a time where the iOS keyboard just worked.

That’s what that is? I had no idea why that kept happening
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