It's so bad. I think it has to do with touch targets because the slide to type is great in my opinion.
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
#72Earlier 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…
> "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" Maybe your "social group". If your friends refuse to talk to you because of the cell phone brand you use, I have bad news for you: They might not really be great friends.
This is the state of friendship in the social media age.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#73>i'm weak >I caved to the blue bubble pressure This is basically how I view iphone users. They buy an inferior product because Apple exploited their lack of status. From moms, to teens, to low-middle income people... Heck, its even infected some perpetually single techies who are so insecure they buy the inferior Apple product. These companies that exploit such psychology is disgusting. From Apple to Nintendo to Disn…
I switched to iPhone for battery life. Additionally, Apple isn’t an advertising company like Google.
However, I agree that Apple should cooperate with Google on messaging. Signal is so much better, but it’s hard to get people to switch.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#74Terrorizing Apple with a countdown threat is probably not going to accomplish much. You could try installing Gboard ( https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1... ), or SwiftKey ( https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/microsoft-swiftkey-ai-keyboard... )...and there are probably other options. It may be even more obvious, but there are settings in general/keyboard that you can toggle. I noticed a bit of a s…
Of course, the first party keyboard doesn't work, you should use the ones that definitely do not phone home to either Google or Microsoft. Of course regular window management doesn't just work out of the box, you should install one of the many different window managers on macOS. I was under the impression that to get a product that just works, I can buy Apple hardware, right?
The sad part is, that Apple used to make somewhat stable, functional software. I started with the iPhone 3 and a bit later with Mac OS Snow Leopard.
It all started when Mr Cook decided to serve the shareholders, instead of focusing on Apple's core values. The software went downhill in such a speed in just a few years. And moving out of the ecosystem is a painful, if not unbearable, task that barely anyone loves to do. At least I can't even think about moving back to Android.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#75I really wish someone could start a legitimate competitor to Apple. They are so bloated and just squeezing service revenue out of us. The M chips are great but the software is so buggy.
Yeah, but it's not really their software that's the moat they rely on. It's a lot more to that. They have incredible branding, Devices may be MID, but at least they make good commercials guys..... Plus, everyone's like sheep. If everyone's getting the latest iPhone, they're going to continue to get the latest iPhone because everyone else is getting the latest iPhone. *Sending dis off of a MacBook with my iPhone 16 in my left pocket btw*
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#76Earlier 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…
> "Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you" Maybe your "social group". If your friends refuse to talk to you because of the cell phone brand you use, I have bad news for you: They might not really be great friends.
That’s not what this is about. If you have a group chat with one android user, it used to make all aspects of the interactions clunkier. Green bubbles, sending a new text instead of reactions, etc. as such, people would get left off of a list. Those small interactions add up over time.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
In chat on the iphone, ios users see fellow ios users with blue bubbles, but see android peasants with green bubble. There's social pressure to "be blue like everyone else" and the author caved in.
The social pressure is also technological. RCS integration was a big improvement but it's still not up to par. It's not "ha, greens are poor", it's "android arnold can't be in the group chat because it'll fuck it all up"
It's not a technical issue, iMessage, whatsapp and Signal can all internally communicate just fine. It's a corporation trying to exert monopolistic pressure to box out competitors by forcing additional social pressure.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
In most countries, the most used messenger app is Whatsapp or Wechat or LINE or KakaoTalk or whatever. In the USA, the most common messenger is iMessage. Unfortunately, unlike all the other apps I named, there's no Android app for it. Instead, if you try to iMessage an android recipient, suddenly iMessage turns into your phone's SMS app (not really sure why, feels like that should be a separate app), and half the fea…
I’m honestly not sure which is more dystopian: the American blue/green bubble divide, or the situation in Spain where my doctor sends blood test results over WhatsApp, delivery drivers call me on WhatsApp, and couriers ask me to share my live location because they can’t find my building. Nearly all day-to-day communication is funnelled through a single Meta-owned channel.
I think the least dystopian is a semi-government owned app, like WeChat in china.
iMessage is also controlled by a private company, and by my estimate, one of the most evil ones. Apple and Google are the two companies most complicit in feeding highly addictive and exploitative gambling apps to kids via their app stores, and they both profit massively off of it via 30% cuts.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"Quality" and "features you happen to want" are two different things.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#80As 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…
> 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 so you can use imessage and easily communicate with your friends and family.
You are missing the /s right?