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My mother in-law got her first iPhone recently and after few days of „training” done by herself managed to get a hang of everything she needs. Apple products U

by pojzon 4y ago

My mother in-law got her first iPhone recently and after few days of „training” done by herself managed to get a hang of everything she needs. Apple products UX is so much better than anything currently available on the market, but its slowly eroding due to lack of Steve Jobs. He had a huge drive to make perfect UX. Newer designers lack this and you can just feel it from how new versions of iOS look like. And how new iphones design is just small changes or bigger screen. They no longer have that spark like they used to with Jobs. RIP Steve, visioners are not looked upon kindly.

Ma8ee 4y ago
On the other hand, it’s hard to make great innovative leaps with a mature product. The iPhone is something like 15 years. And I’m happy that they don’t change things just because they think they should. And it looks like their laptops actually found the path again.
- js2 4y ago
  At the same time, they keep adding useful features. I noticed something new in the Notes app the other day. I had entered a recipe as a note and all the recipe quantities (e.g. "1 tbsp", "5 cups", etc) had a faint underline. I tapped it and got an overlay with the units in a bunch of variations: liters, CCs, gallons, pints, etc. Sometimes Apple products just have these really nice touches. Other times, it's confounding where the gaps are and leave me wondering if Apple even uses their own product. I have two garage doors that I've HomeKit enabled and if I tell Siri "close the garage door" I get asked which one, even if only one is open. Even if I say "close both garage doors" or "close all garage doors" I still get prompted.
unethical_ban 4y ago
I'm coming from a techy 30-something person with Android for years, but also had iPhone for work from 2014-2019. The UI of Nova Launcher on my S21 is so much more intuitive than Apple. Apple does everything through swipes. Swipes suck for several reasons, one of them being that I must swipe certain positions at certain speeds to get everything done. I miss buttons. Related: After two weeks of owning an iPhone 14, I was complaining about how I can't move my cursor in the URL field. It just kept highlighting words! My friend told me the super-intuitive iOS experience: hold down Spacebar to move your cursor. I'm glad that was covered in the non-existent tutorial. Then there are the anxiety inducing badges, the fact that settings is an app instead of a system menu, the fact that control center (or whatever the system drop down is) can't have nearly the function of Android's system drop down, the fact that notification center doesn't feel trustworthy or consistent, the fact that notification center shows me notifications from blacklisted apps even in focus mode... Android's UI just makes so much more fucking sense. And I hate that I am tempted now to go back to my S21 with inferior camera and DAC/bluetooth stack just to have software that makes sense. I acknowledge this is a rant and not as well put-together as most of my comments, but effing Hell, iOS is a mixed bag.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  For a light rant about iOS usability, I’m saddened to see downvotes instead of discussion. I expect that from r/Apple.

by pojzon 4y ago

Ma8ee 4y ago

On the other hand, it’s hard to make great innovative leaps with a mature product. The iPhone is something like 15 years. And I’m happy that they don’t change things just because they think they should. And it looks like their laptops actually found the path again.

js2 4y ago
At the same time, they keep adding useful features. I noticed something new in the Notes app the other day. I had entered a recipe as a note and all the recipe quantities (e.g. "1 tbsp", "5 cups", etc) had a faint underline. I tapped it and got an overlay with the units in a bunch of variations: liters, CCs, gallons, pints, etc. Sometimes Apple products just have these really nice touches. Other times, it's confounding where the gaps are and leave me wondering if Apple even uses their own product. I have two garage doors that I've HomeKit enabled and if I tell Siri "close the garage door" I get asked which one, even if only one is open. Even if I say "close both garage doors" or "close all garage doors" I still get prompted.

unethical_ban 4y ago

I'm coming from a techy 30-something person with Android for years, but also had iPhone for work from 2014-2019. The UI of Nova Launcher on my S21 is so much more intuitive than Apple. Apple does everything through swipes. Swipes suck for several reasons, one of them being that I must swipe certain positions at certain speeds to get everything done. I miss buttons. Related: After two weeks of owning an iPhone 14, I was complaining about how I can't move my cursor in the URL field. It just kept highlighting words! My friend told me the super-intuitive iOS experience: hold down Spacebar to move your cursor. I'm glad that was covered in the non-existent tutorial. Then there are the anxiety inducing badges, the fact that settings is an app instead of a system menu, the fact that control center (or whatever the system drop down is) can't have nearly the function of Android's system drop down, the fact that notification center doesn't feel trustworthy or consistent, the fact that notification center shows me notifications from blacklisted apps even in focus mode... Android's UI just makes so much more fucking sense. And I hate that I am tempted now to go back to my S21 with inferior camera and DAC/bluetooth stack just to have software that makes sense. I acknowledge this is a rant and not as well put-together as most of my comments, but effing Hell, iOS is a mixed bag.

unethical_ban 4y ago
For a light rant about iOS usability, I’m saddened to see downvotes instead of discussion. I expect that from r/Apple.