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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 mvdtnz »

munk-a wrote: post #147
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 article ended up making it to HN and, at least the discussion I'm seeing, is highly critical of Apple's recent design changes. There isn't a threat you can construct that'd throw 20% of Apple's profit into uncertainty, but losing their mantle of technical excellence is something that will deeply damage Apple in the long term. Microsoft seems hell bent on being a worse example right now but if the grade of Apple's…

HN can be as critical as they want of Apple's design changes. Until they vote with their wallets (they won't, because most people here are ideologically tied to Apple) no one inside Apple cares.

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

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Post by mvdtnz »

Someone1234 wrote: post #224
bee_rider wrote: post #200

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People complain about everything on HackerNews, if I was Apple I’d 100% ignore us. The recent kerfluffle has been all the Liquid Glass stuff, I hear lots of people in my offline circle who aren’t reading every phone UI review who are trying various schemes to avoid or mitigate this update. It’s pretty bad! (The keyboard sucking is water under the bridge at this point, I think).

I get what you're saying; but the thing is you can kinda-sorta ignore the Liquid Glass stuff (performance not withstanding on older devices); but the keyboard is a "touch surface" people are actively using every single day . Kind of a big deal that something you'll likely use every time you pick up your device has been broken now for going on years, with no real movement on the issue.

Wake me up when it shows up on Apple's balance sheet.

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

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Post by odysseus »

thehappyfellow wrote: post #268
bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #232

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Select all always appears if you have no text selected and never appears if you have some text selected. Insane UI decision by apple but that's how it is.

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

I have a JavaScript share sheet shortcut that forces a select all on any page. Really useful.

Something like this:

var result = [];

body = document.body;

sel = window.getSelection(); range = document.createRange(); range.selectNodeContents(body); sel.removeAllRanges(); sel.addRange(range);

selString = sel.toString();

// Call completion to finish completion(selString);

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

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Post by grishka »

The one related thing that has always driven me a bit crazy on iOS (which I hardly ever use, only for testing) compared to Android (which I've been using daily since 2011) is how touches register slightly higher than where you're physically tapping. This alone makes hitting small-ish targets, including keyboard keys, quite challenging and infuriating. This does seem intentional too, as it depends neither on the device model nor on the OS version, it's been like that for over a decade at this point.

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

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Post by gyomu »

lysace wrote: post #119
inferniac wrote: post #40

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

I'm getting a strong feeling that the first generation of really, really talented people who built iOS in the 2000s have now to a substantial degree moved on/retired. Similar feeling with OS X/macOS. Please correct me if I'm wrong - it is after all just a feeling.

The problem isn’t so much that the original people aren’t there anymore - that’s just a fact of life, and is unavoidable.

The problem is that software design as a discipline has changed fundamentally in terms of core values. “Old school” designers had a bit more of a human factors training and would think about things like discoverability, information hierarchy, error recovery, etc. And the software from that era tended to be stable for many years in terms of design, in no small part because it shipped in boxes.

Current day designers work almost exclusively from a visual bling/marketing angle - what’s going to look good in a 5 second sizzle reel? And because software can be updated 5 times a day if you want, design is much more subject to the whims of a random exec/PM wanting to push their feature/whatever AB test is popular that week rather than stable, proven foundations.

The web, rather than desktop, being the primarily delivery vehicle for software also changes what kind of design gets built.

And with more and more software being AI designed in the years to come, this won’t get much better I’m afraid.

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

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Post by drawnwren »

sleight42 wrote: post #666
osener wrote: post #576

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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.

I suffer from chronic migraine and had begun to think my typing failures were early signs of severe cognitive decline…
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