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It’s iOS, too - I recall their QA used to be impeccable - it all Just Worked, and user-facing bugs were pretty uncommon. I found myself a huge fan of the apple
by madaxe_again 3y ago
It’s iOS, too - I recall their QA used to be impeccable - it all Just Worked, and user-facing bugs were pretty uncommon. I found myself a huge fan of the apple ecosystem 20 years ago after wrestling with windows and Linux for the previous decade, as the ease of it all was unbelievably refreshing.
I now find myself rebooting my iPhone (or it rebooting itself if things are sufficiently bad) on a daily basis, as it always ends up with things like file handling just breaking - I use SMB mounts in the files app and this seems to be a poorly tested edge case. Also, the keyboard thing, where input starts to buffer - I’ve seen it on other people’s phones, too. Seems like a pretty fundamental thing to not get perfectly right.
It’s not just bugs - usability has plummeted as stuff has been shoehorned in left, right and centre. Gone is the simplicity of past iOS - the convergence works both ways, I suppose.
Over the past few years I have encountered numerous issues in each of iOS and macOS which generally never get resolved - usually nothing earth-shattering, but stuff that speaks of a lack of QA, or planning, or a lack of care.
- jareklupinski 3y agofor over a year, pressing a volume button on an ios device then quickly locking the screen would make the volume go all the way in the direction you were pressing imagine opening your phone to check your media player, then pressing the volume button up once to make something gently louder and locking the screen again before putting your phone down then throwing your headphones on the ground for the tenth time because ios decided that was the secret button combination to blast at full volume https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252351739 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252351739
- madaxe_again 3y agoYeah, I encountered this so frequently I forgot about it - it was practically a feature. That along with the whole “screen freezes halfway through unlock” and “video canvas randomly shows video and audio from other WebKit instances”. There’s really fundamental userland stuff that’s just broken these days. Probably speaks of horrors under the hood.