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iOS 10. 10 Features that I think they had a hard time to convince the audience that were so important. I've been using iOS since v3 and it's going ^2 complicat

iOS 10. 10 Features that I think they had a hard time to convince the audience that were so important. I've been using iOS since v3 and it's going ^2 complicated every year. Come on guys, nobody expects that you can deliver a revolution with every WWDC. Just don't make the interface more complicated. Siri, 3d touch, home kit? I barely know anyone using those and everyone these days has an iPhone. The focus is shifted from usability to features. So sad.

k-mcgrady 10y ago
>> "Siri, 3d touch, home kit? I barely know anyone using those" Shouldn't Apple improve them so that they become useful for more people then? I used Siri very occasionally but with the SDK I can see myself using it quite often when I'm at home and need to, for example, order an Uber. I can just yell it at my phone without stopping what I'm doing. With 3D touch do you expect them to just throw out years of development? No, they work to improve the UI and more people will use it - the glance able info on a force press on a home screen icon looks great to me.
stevep98 10y ago
I find Siri useful for certain things. 'Set a timer for 20 minutes' is faster for me than using the clock app. 'Navigate to the nearest gas station' is faster. Setting reminders is usually faster with Siri. Especially geofences ones. Finding pictures in a location is much easier with Siri.. "Find pictures at Lake Tahoe" The main problem is that you have to remember what you can do.
- matt-attack 10y ago
  "Set a timer for 20 minutes" is heavenly. No, extra bloat like, "Shall I start it now?", it just starts ticking as soon as you as for it. Every time you feed a parking meter, I recommend this feature.
  - veidr 10y ago
    I also use voice to start timers, probably more than once a day on average. Which is why, by now, the idiotic and unfunny jokes Siri makes almost every time I do that are really fucking annoying (even though it doesn't say them out loud, and I just have to see them printed on the screen).
    - soared 10y ago
      You can tell their engineers never continuously tested Siri's responses for multiple weeks. I'd rather have the "Ok" than Siri's 5 other longer responses, and the one sassy response.
mahyarm 10y ago
Siri is great in a car and other hands free situations. In a car is when I used it the most. Mostly for music control, navigation, calls and text messages.
zepto 10y ago
All of these things will improve usablity. Right now you have to fumble around inside apps for many common actions that will be much more readily accessible.

k-mcgrady 10y ago

>> "Siri, 3d touch, home kit? I barely know anyone using those" Shouldn't Apple improve them so that they become useful for more people then? I used Siri very occasionally but with the SDK I can see myself using it quite often when I'm at home and need to, for example, order an Uber. I can just yell it at my phone without stopping what I'm doing. With 3D touch do you expect them to just throw out years of development? No, they work to improve the UI and more people will use it - the glance able info on a force press on a home screen icon looks great to me.

stevep98 10y ago

I find Siri useful for certain things. 'Set a timer for 20 minutes' is faster for me than using the clock app. 'Navigate to the nearest gas station' is faster. Setting reminders is usually faster with Siri. Especially geofences ones. Finding pictures in a location is much easier with Siri.. "Find pictures at Lake Tahoe" The main problem is that you have to remember what you can do.

matt-attack 10y ago
"Set a timer for 20 minutes" is heavenly. No, extra bloat like, "Shall I start it now?", it just starts ticking as soon as you as for it. Every time you feed a parking meter, I recommend this feature.
- veidr 10y ago
  I also use voice to start timers, probably more than once a day on average. Which is why, by now, the idiotic and unfunny jokes Siri makes almost every time I do that are really fucking annoying (even though it doesn't say them out loud, and I just have to see them printed on the screen).
  - soared 10y ago
    You can tell their engineers never continuously tested Siri's responses for multiple weeks. I'd rather have the "Ok" than Siri's 5 other longer responses, and the one sassy response.

mahyarm 10y ago

Siri is great in a car and other hands free situations. In a car is when I used it the most. Mostly for music control, navigation, calls and text messages.

zepto 10y ago

All of these things will improve usablity. Right now you have to fumble around inside apps for many common actions that will be much more readily accessible.