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> Example: it takes me far longer to highlight or otherwise manipulate text than it would on Android or a computer. No, it's not a familiarity issue. Ugh, I'm
by karaterobot 3y ago
> Example: it takes me far longer to highlight or otherwise manipulate text than it would on Android or a computer. No, it's not a familiarity issue.
Ugh, I'm with you on that one. When I switched to iOS two years ago, I was astonished by how hard it was to select text, or even just move the cursor while you're typing.
Related: the swipe keyboard on iOS is so much worse than Android. It Tries to be Helpful by Capitalizing random Words, then when you backspace to remove those words, you realize it has introduced some secret markup into the text, so that the word you replace it with is also capitalized. Gets me every time.
I was happy with my Android phone, but at the time when I needed to get a new one, Apple was doubling down on (its marketing message about) privacy, and I naively bought into it. Shortly afterwards, they announced your phone would be scanning every image and reporting back to Apple.
- kaba0 3y ago> or even just move the cursor while you're typing. You can long press on the space bar and move the cursor around quite well, just a tip. Apple is still orders of magnitudes better from a privacy perspective, and there is no photoscan-and-send-back-to-mothership anywhere. Hell, the whole point of that would have been to enable real e2e photo storage, while they also not hurt any laws (which is not clear on storing child porn on their servers, even if its encrypted).
- karaterobot 3y agoHoly smokes, that's really useful. Thanks for the tip!