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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 sleight42 »

pbmonster wrote: post #601
tempestn wrote: post #526

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I'm curious why my experience with Windows 11 is so different from what I regularly read. It was some years ago now, so I don't remember exactly what configuration steps I went through, but presumably I turned off ads when I first installed. And so, I don't get ads. I don't recall ever seeing an ad embedded in Windows. Are people talking about Edge (which I don't use) or inside the Microsoft Store (which I very rarel…

Your Windows 11 experience strongly, strongly depends on where you are. Are you inside the EU? 90% of the crap people complain about is simply illegal and you don't see any of it.

In the US, of course, our government loves to let citizens be the product for corporations. America: by the corporations for the corporations.

Even more true now than it has been in maybe 100 years.

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

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Post by jasonfarnon »

abanana wrote: post #423
leptons wrote: post #376

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It honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been. It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the…

Not always , if we go back to the 1980s. But in very modern times, they've lost all the learnings from back then.

old school apple design stubborness: I remember they insisted on putting the grooves on the "D" and "K" keys instead of the "F" and "J" keys. So you had to find home base on the keyboard with your middle fingers on an apple rather than index fingers like on everything else. No, that place has always been a design shop run amok.

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

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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…

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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 loloquwowndueo »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #364
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…

The threat is weak, the attraction it gets is great. It was never about loosing one single customer, it's about getting a bad reputation and loosing many more undecided potential customers.

Yeah imagine all those customers, loose to wreak havoc. Would be a shame to lose them …

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

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Post by sleight42 »

osener wrote: post #576
biotechbio wrote: post #506

+1. From the original post, I found this video to be particularly damning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Does anyone have an explanation for how something like this passes QC at a company with the resources of Apple? Is this video misrepresenting something?

For years I thought I had a faulty touchscreen and started relying on dictation more and more. Seeing this video saved me from going insane. They must have crunched the numbers and decided that these choices benefit more people than not. BUT HOW!

I keep talking to friends and family who aren't techies and use iPhone. They believe their typing has gotten worse or something like that.

Don Norman has written about this. Users are more likely to blame themselves than the tool.

It's a weird sort of almost gaslighting.

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

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Post by smugtrain »

leptons wrote: post #376
thehappyfellow wrote: post #268

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Which means you can't select all on text which isn't editable - insane!

It honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been. It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the…

This was not poor design, but a decision to restrict the user from copy pasting entire articles and the like. Most unfair and this iPhone 3G to iPhone 17 Pro user is seriously considering ditching them over select all

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

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Post by PcChip »

leptons wrote: post #376
thehappyfellow wrote: post #268

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Which means you can't select all on text which isn't editable - insane!

It honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been. It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the…

>This was not poor design, but a decision to restrict the user from copy pasting entire articles

do you have a source for that?

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

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Post by tzs »

leptons wrote: post #470
abanana wrote: post #423

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Not always , if we go back to the 1980s. But in very modern times, they've lost all the learnings from back then.

lol, no, they sucked even more in the 1980s. Did you ever notice that "About this software" is the first thing on the first menu of every application? Is that because people have to know what version of the software they are using every time they start it? It's still like that today, and it's very very stupid. Other OSs get it right and put the version information on the last menu, where it doesn't clutter up the mos…

What makes you think the first menu is one of the most used menus?
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