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Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by babypuncher »

basch wrote: post #388
SebastianKra wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple are experts are experts at creating these patterns that fall just at the edge of being classified as anti-consumer, to the point where you frequently find heated discussions about whether they are. Battery throtteling on the iPhone 6s; The sandboxing / sideloading discussion; The no-iCloud experience; The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better; How unauthorized Apps on MacOS…

Battery throttling doesn’t fit the rest of these. Preventing a device reboot is pro consumer.

Agreed, the problem was how poorly this was communicated to the user.

I'd much rather have a slow phone than a phone that doesn't work at all (or worse, bursts into flames in my pocket)

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by sterlind »

rootusrootus wrote: post #511
ryukafalz wrote: post #508

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They did change the shade of green, and the newer one is much less readable. See for yourself: Original: https://ronstauffer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/taking-a-pic... Current: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

It may just be that I happen to have my reading glasses on right now, but both of those are easy to read. But let's run with that for a moment, and assume many people do in fact find that more difficult to read. I still have trouble calling that particularly hostile given that it's sent messages, received ones are the same color no matter what. I'm more open to the green vs blue argument than the old-green vs new-gre…

I caution against relying on your own senses when designing for accessibility. I can tell the red and green buttons apart just fine, but I'm not colorblind. And even if I were, there's multiple kinds of colorblindness - and of vision disabilities in general, from dyslexia to astigmatism.

For small developers there's checker tools and simulators, but Apple is huge and has a responsibility to get this right.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by babypuncher »

flagrant_taco wrote: post #425
basch wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Battery throttling doesn’t fit the rest of these. Preventing a device reboot is pro consumer.

Shipping a device that will overheat and reboot when the device is a couple years old and fixing it by silently throttling the device isn't pro consumer either Those devices really should have been recalled or offered a generous trade-in value to account for the fundamental design flaw

It's not a fundamental design flaw, this will happen with every device that ships with a modern rechargeable battery.

Android does the exact same thing now, but I don't see people boycotting Google over it.

The problem was that Apple didn't communicate this to the user. People didn't know why their phone was slow.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by wizofaus »

rootusrootus wrote: post #511
ryukafalz wrote: post #508

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did change the shade of green, and the newer one is much less readable. See for yourself: Original: https://ronstauffer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/taking-a-pic... Current: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

It may just be that I happen to have my reading glasses on right now, but both of those are easy to read. But let's run with that for a moment, and assume many people do in fact find that more difficult to read. I still have trouble calling that particularly hostile given that it's sent messages, received ones are the same color no matter what. I'm more open to the green vs blue argument than the old-green vs new-gre…

> both of those are easy to read

Most accessibility problems aren't things that those without some sort of sensory disability (beyond mild long-sightedness) can detect easily - at least, without using tools to do so.

Surely though there is some sort of "accessible" mode you can put it into that does improve the contrast?

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by babypuncher »

flagrant_taco wrote: post #467
scarface_74 wrote: post #455

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Have you found a new battery technology where that is mid the case?

Device design is always constrained by the current technology. It isn't impossible to make a phone with current battery tech that doesn't overheat after a year or two of normal use Apple just pushed design to far and underestimated the cooling/heat dissipation required

Heat had nothing to do with it. The internal resistance of the battery increases as it wears out, lowering the peak output current.

Increased heat when operating near the current limit is a symptom, not a cause. Adding a fan or a chonky heatsink to your iPhone wouldn't magically raise this limit.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by Zambyte »

23B1 wrote: post #386

The sooner we realize that 'product managers' and 'UX designers' are now as bad as used car salesmen and NFT hucksters, the better. I'm sorry, I LOVE building products and I LOVE design... but these fields have become grift central. No disrespect to folks in these fields, but remember how you came into this field talking about usability, cooperation, beautiful typography, color theory? Bring those back.

> No disrespect to folks in these fields

Why not? You can absolutely call people out for using Nuremberg defense. Just because someone ordered you to intentionally mistreat people doesn't mean that you did not intentionally mistreat people.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by lmm »

SebastianKra wrote: post #305
acomjean wrote: post #89

Its getting worse everywhere: some things I've noticed: Mobil Safari seems to be using the search bar to hijack my google search (Particularly for locations which open in apple maps) Although I'm mostly linux these days I went to install an alternative browser on a windows machine (using edge to download). I mentioned this in another post, but edge seems to watch for "chrome" or "firefox" downloads and politely remin…

Apple are experts are experts at creating these patterns that fall just at the edge of being classified as anti-consumer, to the point where you frequently find heated discussions about whether they are. Battery throtteling on the iPhone 6s; The sandboxing / sideloading discussion; The no-iCloud experience; The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better; How unauthorized Apps on MacOS…

The stuff Apple does is even more blatantly anti-consumer than their competitors. The difference is that Apple have fans who will defend them, in a way that Microsoft, Google or Facebook don't really. It's the reality distortion field, not Apple being better at straddling the line.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by [deleted] »

0xedd wrote: post #490
browningstreet wrote: post #471

I was looking at Distrowatch with my son.. lamenting at all the different distros, the distros I've never heard of, and the frequency of changes in the top 10 with distros I'm not familiar with. Free software devs are obviously free to do as they wish, but Apple vs Microsoft vs Google vs 100+ Linux distros wasn't going to lead to the outcome some of us were hoping for. We're looking at building a monster Davinci Reso…

The issue is that [non-tech] people don't go around changing OSes. So long as PCs come with a default of user-hostile-OS-1 or user-hostile-OS-2, the question of "Linux year of the desktop, when?" is invalid. That said, be responsible where you put your money. My wife no longer uses iOS. I no longer use iOS or Android. Raspberry is a media server for TV.

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Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by throwaway290 »

acomjean wrote: post #395
Spivak wrote: post #351

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How do I get this to happen? I turned them all on typed in an address, hit return, hit the button on Google and it opened in Google Maps. I'm on the latest version of iOS.

It's the "safari suggestion" feature. As you type it does a sort of auto complete. For me it was a restuarant name, that "safari suggested" and put at the top of the browser window above the google results. I think the trick is happens before the return is clicked. I was on the go and trying to work fast. I turned it off as a user suggested.

I am baffled by this thread. Never seen any such behavior. Just enabled Safari suggestions. Looking up a place on Google, clicking Maps, Google Maps opens.

I am not sure whether to be against this feature because I cannot get it working... Is it an US only feature or some magic combination of other settings is required?

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