> You were the "it just works" company.
Yeah, two decades ago.
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
#732As a longtime Android user, I can't imagine going back to iOS for a number of reasons: - Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp - No app cloning (multiple versions of the same app with different logins) - Crazy monthly storage fees with no ability to control photo storage on phone - All google apps including Chrome, Gmail & Maps work better on Android and sync with Chrome on desktop - No gemini built-in - No…
I suspect 99% of users have no use for multiple versions of the same app. €10/month for 2TB storage is pretty good. I don’t use any google apps, or Chrome. Charge overnight so speed doesn’t matter. Now the parts you didn’t mention: - Apple makes great hardware, iPhones last forever (typing this from my virtue-signaling 2020 phone, my 2007 iPod touch still works). - A similar spec Android costs about the same but usua…
> A similar spec Android costs about the same but usually has a flimsy plastic build and will become unsupported in 2-4 years
Maybe 10 years ago, but this couldn't be further from the truth today.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#733As a longtime Android user, I can't imagine going back to iOS for a number of reasons: - Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp - No app cloning (multiple versions of the same app with different logins) - Crazy monthly storage fees with no ability to control photo storage on phone - All google apps including Chrome, Gmail & Maps work better on Android and sync with Chrome on desktop - No gemini built-in - No…
Yep.
Basically the iPhone was very good at the start because Jobs smelled the future with his legendary intuition, but it was still a flawed product.
They won because it took competitors years to meaningfully catch up.
But now they are falling behind quite hard. In general, you just can't compete alone against a free market, and Apple gets a lot more profit compared to their volume, but they are unable to use it for meaningful improvement.
If nothing changes at Apple, I think they'll have a hard time in the next decade. Apple being forced to rely on a competitor for AI is just the sign of complacency that will get them in trouble.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#734It will be hard, but I’m transitioning out of Apple ecosystem regardless of whether they improve. Just like Windows 11, I get ads whether I want them or not - just got a push notification for a new financial product (!!!) despite going out of my way to opt out. iOS 26 made my 16 Pro, practically brand new, feel slow. I upgraded because my 13 mini was slow, and I chose Apple in the first place because they had some of…
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…
People just like to hate on Windows.
The home version has some issues and limitations, but if you are willing to invest in the Pro version, it's mostly fine, really.
There are still many complaints to be had, but the fact is that Windows does what it needs to do on a wide range of hardware without much hassle if you know what you are doing.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#735Earlier quoted context omitted.
The recent changes to the iOS keyboard and text editing in general have been very counter productive for me as well. Tap to select doesn't really work the same way anymore and the logic of it isn't clear to me which makes it unpredictable. Typing accurately itself has gotten really difficult. I used to be a pretty quick typist on the iOS keyboard but now I find myself looking for my Mac to send a message from there o…
Also why did they get rid of select all? Is there any excuse for that?
My favorite ( /s) IOS hassle - aside from running around on 12% battery at all times, didn’t I buy a pro max for the extended capacity ? -
… is not being able to paste into an empty box unless I type a letter there and select it/clobber it/overwrite it
And I just LOOOOOVE not being able to tap a URL in safari and get to the end of it to add parameters or change a path anymore…
Just gave my MacBook that hasn’t been turned on in months away(i haaaaate Tahoe) and been using GrapheneOS on a pixel 7a.
so far I’m not in love with it but I’m getting used to it and starting to like downloading apps anonymously (if I name the app, I’ll probably get scolded) anyway this might be the end of the line for me and Apple.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#736The select copy and paste experience is terrible on iPhone too. They randomly shuffle when to show select or not and rarely show select all.
I had situations where I had to wait for 2 minutes with return pressed due to iPhone not showing select all
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#737I can't compare because I've never owned an iPhone but Gboard sucks pretty bad too, in case you're wondering.
Swype was the peak for touchscreen keyboards and it all went downhill from there.
No idea why.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#738@ozzyphantom: You might consider being more specific about your grievances in the text of your countdown page. As it stands, it's a bit vague, describing the keyboard as "broken" and autocorrect as "nearly useless". Sure, the video you link to is more descriptive, but it's a lot to ask of a visitor to click through and watch a separate video. As for the underlying issue, I have experienced similar typing issues on my…
but anyone who uses the keyboard knows the statements to be true. I have just switched to turning autocorrect off. The "select all" comment hit home. I frequently try to copy/paste text and it is maddening to try to locate "select all" And cursor movement? ugh. It is so painful to move the cursor to one specific letter that I frequently just erase everything and start over.
How did you make that happen?
I use swipe keyboard in iPhone. I turned off all "autocorrect" features they offer.
Still their random generator keeps replacing perfectly fine words _and the words before them_ with random crap that makes no sense.
Heck, I even turned off all features, and still it happens.
So I switched to another keyboard from appstore.
I would switch to another OS, but I find the others even worse in some respects I care for deeply.
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#739Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have genuinely considered if my (and perhaps everyone on hn) life calling should be just to make a better touch keyboard. Bearing in mind the amount of constant pain and torment the current best keyboards inflict upon the world, can there be any more urgent problem to tackle? Forget climate change guys. Make a keyboard. Save the world.
There already was one. For all its faults, Swype for Android ~12 years ago was better than any swiping keyboard available now - both in its interpretation of swipes, and in its other features like "squiggle over one letter to indicate a double letter", "run your swipe above the keyboard to indicate a capitalized word", and the incredible editing features (it had an editing keyboard !). The Swype key, located in the b…
Sounds great. When you say 12 years ago do you mean newer versions weren’t as good? Or was it discontinued or something?
I think the really puzzling thing about these keyboards is we all seem to remember typing being easier - even though phones back then were so much smaller. It makes no sense!
Re: Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
#740That's the thing. Android is equally bad in their own idiosyncratic ways. Or actually worse if you factor in stuff like Google tracks everything you do or don't do on the phone or while having the phone on you and sells/exposes those trackings to advertisers, even when you explicitly ask it to not do that. Its distractive design is by design. If you are going to change the iOS just for the keyboard (and yeah it's key…
But there are the forks of Android that don't include anything Google.
And any app that normal non-rooting non-hn folks use or might actually need to function in the real world will refuse to work. Not only that there will be no OTA. List goes on.. and it’s actually going to get worse.