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Post by marsss25 on Dec 6, 2020 19:50:58 GMT
Time for a rant...
I’m a Blackberry user in the phone arena- have been since 2008 when I received one from a co-worker as a starter phone. I also loved my playbook tablet. They were the business phone. Apple’s iPhone was the fun phone. I briefly tried an iPhone, but it wasn’t fun at all at the time- didn’t even have the emojis I had on my BB. Their iPad, however, I liked very much, despite its shortcomings.
Although BlackBerry signed their own death warrant by failing to embrace Android in time to ensure continued success, they knew how to properly Design an interface and give features the user could seriously use. The system could and still does learn your typing styles and variant words or spellings that you use. Spell check and word prediction were and still are, top notch. You can create a great dictionary of shortcuts that will create entire sentence out of a few letters. Very useful stuff for anyone using a piece of equipment for hours at a time.
The iPads and their family seemed very intuitive at first, but never really grasped the spell check and word substitution. Their dictionary seems to alway prefer its choices rather than attempting to learn from the user. The intuitive design and choice of programs was certainly a selling point. However, as I move closer to being a power user, I’m finding that some of the intuitive things that have been taken out are making the ‘i’ line anything but favourable.
My biggest beef is the removal of the bubble that used to magnify where you were going to position the insertion point to edit something. Attempting to place an insertion point on my iPad Pro is something akin to microsurgery. I have to zoom in to maximum magnification in order to place the insertion point where I want it. If not, the insertion point jumps up a line or over by a word. It is mind boggling to ponder how much the quality of a simple feature has fallen.
Hopefully, sometime soon, the programmers can do something to fix these major shortcomings (as I see them)- but thus far it looks doubtful. Until then, I find myself using my tablets for less and less serious work.
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Post by zeb on Dec 8, 2020 18:31:58 GMT
Time for a rant... I’m a Blackberry user in the phone arena- have been since 2008 when I received one from a co-worker as a starter phone. I also loved my playbook tablet. They were the business phone. Apple’s iPhone was the fun phone. I briefly tried an iPhone, but it wasn’t fun at all at the time- didn’t even have the emojis I had on my BB. Their iPad, however, I liked very much, despite its shortcomings. Although BlackBerry signed their own death warrant by failing to embrace Android in time to ensure continued success, they knew how to properly Design an interface and give features the user could seriously use. The system could and still does learn your typing styles and variant words or spellings that you use. Spell check and word prediction were and still are, top notch. You can create a great dictionary of shortcuts that will create entire sentence out of a few letters. Very useful stuff for anyone using a piece of equipment for hours at a time. The iPads and their family seemed very intuitive at first, but never really grasped the spell check and word substitution. Their dictionary seems to alway prefer its choices rather than attempting to learn from the user. The intuitive design and choice of programs was certainly a selling point. However, as I move closer to being a power user, I’m finding that some of the intuitive things that have been taken out are making the ‘i’ line anything but favourable. My biggest beef is the removal of the bubble that used to magnify where you were going to position the insertion point to edit something. Attempting to place an insertion point on my iPad Pro is something akin to microsurgery. I have to zoom in to maximum magnification in order to place the insertion point where I want it. If not, the insertion point jumps up a line or over by a word. It is mind boggling to ponder how much the quality of a simple feature has fallen. Hopefully, sometime soon, the programmers can do something to fix these major shortcomings (as I see them)- but thus far it looks doubtful. Until then, I find myself using my tablets for less and less serious work. It's just the state of the industry. I'm an Android user, and my current phone is missing some excellent features that my last phone had, mainly software stuff. They have to "improve" the product regularly to keep people interested, but every update seems to mess up one or more good features that used to work. Makes me crazy! |
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Post by marsss25 on Dec 8, 2020 23:29:49 GMT
Time for a rant... I’m a Blackberry user in the phone arena- have been since 2008 when I received one from a co-worker as a starter phone. I also loved my playbook tablet. They were the business phone. Apple’s iPhone was the fun phone. I briefly tried an iPhone, but it wasn’t fun at all at the time- didn’t even have the emojis I had on my BB. Their iPad, however, I liked very much, despite its shortcomings. Although BlackBerry signed their own death warrant by failing to embrace Android in time to ensure continued success, they knew how to properly Design an interface and give features the user could seriously use. The system could and still does learn your typing styles and variant words or spellings that you use. Spell check and word prediction were and still are, top notch. You can create a great dictionary of shortcuts that will create entire sentence out of a few letters. Very useful stuff for anyone using a piece of equipment for hours at a time. The iPads and their family seemed very intuitive at first, but never really grasped the spell check and word substitution. Their dictionary seems to alway prefer its choices rather than attempting to learn from the user. The intuitive design and choice of programs was certainly a selling point. However, as I move closer to being a power user, I’m finding that some of the intuitive things that have been taken out are making the ‘i’ line anything but favourable. My biggest beef is the removal of the bubble that used to magnify where you were going to position the insertion point to edit something. Attempting to place an insertion point on my iPad Pro is something akin to microsurgery. I have to zoom in to maximum magnification in order to place the insertion point where I want it. If not, the insertion point jumps up a line or over by a word. It is mind boggling to ponder how much the quality of a simple feature has fallen. Hopefully, sometime soon, the programmers can do something to fix these major shortcomings (as I see them)- but thus far it looks doubtful. Until then, I find myself using my tablets for less and less serious work. It's just the state of the industry. I'm an Android user, and my current phone is missing some excellent features that my last phone had, mainly software stuff. They have to "improve" the product regularly to keep people interested, but every update seems to mess up one or more good features that used to work. Makes me crazy! You are right- the stuff they leave out would be the equivalent of leaving the letter q off the keyboard cause there aren't enough words with it... |
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Post by bfhammer on Dec 9, 2020 1:56:50 GMT
Well Marcel, I believe you are frustrated because it is not Blackberry. I kind of remember similar complaints from MS-DOS power-users around 1995 regarding Windows. Your feelings are totally valid. It may take an open-source replacement OS to fix these kind of improvements. Not that Apple would ever allow that to happen. Or Google.
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Post by marsss25 on Dec 9, 2020 3:14:22 GMT
Well Marcel, I believe you are frustrated because it is not Blackberry. I kind of remember similar complaints from MS-DOS power-users around 1995 regarding Windows. Your feelings are totally valid. It may take an open-source replacement OS to fix these kind of improvements. Not that Apple would ever allow that to happen. Or Google. That doesn’t even scratch the surface of the problem. But that is just another rant waiting to happen. |
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Post by jamestkirk on Dec 21, 2020 11:51:35 GMT
There are even linux based phones/pads (of course Apple and Android are both from the same branch) Nothing is perfect. At least I own a Hackintosh desktop...
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Post by marsss25 on Dec 22, 2020 2:26:33 GMT
There are even linux based phones/pads (of course Apple and Android are both from the same branch) Nothing is perfect. At least I own a Hackintosh desktop... My rant is mostly based on the fact that Apple's operating system is taking backward steps and that many companies are ignoring good programming because it isn't theirs. Pony up the money for licensing and make our technology work properly for crying out loud. The bigger fear is that with Apple moving to ARM processors, iOS is going to be more integrated into their computing platforms. To quote Darnell from Christine... "You can't polish a turd" |
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Post by bfhammer on Dec 22, 2020 3:03:08 GMT
To quote Darnell from Christine... "You can't polish a turd" But you can polish a turd!
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Post by marsss25 on Dec 22, 2020 5:22:26 GMT
To quote Darnell from Christine... "You can't polish a turd" But you can polish a turd!
Lol! Never saw that one! |
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Post by jamestkirk on Dec 22, 2020 14:06:46 GMT
My rant is mostly based on the fact that Apple's operating system is taking backward steps and that many companies are ignoring good programming because it isn't theirs. Pony up the money for licensing and make our technology work properly for crying out loud. The bigger fear is that with Apple moving to ARM processors, iOS is going to be more integrated into their computing platforms. To quote Darnell from Christine... "You can't polish a turd" |
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