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by thehappyfellow8 hours ago |
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upvoteby leptons7 hours ago|
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It honestly doesn't surprise me. Apple is not some bastion of good design. They are mediocre at best, always have been.

It was pretty hilarious to me that for so many years the keyboard on iOS only had CAPITAL letters. No matter the state of the shift key, the letters on the keyboard just stayed the same. After many years they finally figured it out, but it's one example of many about how Apple just doesn't have the great UX people claim they do.

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upvoteby tambourine_man7 hours ago|
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I actually prefer the all caps keyboard and switch it on on iOS. It looks like a physical keyboard and the constant flicking between upper/lowercase is distracting and annoying
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upvoteby b1126 hours ago|
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As bfinn once said on IRC, as he wrote in caps:

<BFINN/#debian> ALL BIG LETTER ON KEYBOARD HERE!!

<CosmicRay/#debian> haha

<BFINN/#debian> TO NO LITTLE LETTER!

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.misc/c/7AdXvE7KQz...

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upvoteby leptons6 hours ago|
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Well good for you, I guess?
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upvoteby smugtrain1 hours ago|
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This was not poor design, but a decision to restrict the user from copy pasting entire articles and the like. Most unfair and this iPhone 3G to iPhone 17 Pro user is seriously considering ditching them over select all
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upvoteby nashashmi6 hours ago|
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they are not bastion of good design. they are the bastion of intentional opinionated design. Meaning they don't listen to feedback. ("we don't have focus groups" - Steve Jobs).
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upvoteby PcChip1 hours ago|
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>This was not poor design, but a decision to restrict the user from copy pasting entire articles

do you have a source for that?

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upvoteby abanana7 hours ago|
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Not always, if we go back to the 1980s. But in very modern times, they've lost all the learnings from back then.
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upvoteby jasonfarnon2 hours ago|
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old school apple design stubborness: I remember they insisted on putting the grooves on the "D" and "K" keys instead of the "F" and "J" keys. So you had to find home base on the keyboard with your middle fingers on an apple rather than index fingers like on everything else. No, that place has always been a design shop run amok.
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upvoteby leptons6 hours ago|
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lol, no, they sucked even more in the 1980s.

Did you ever notice that "About this software" is the first thing on the first menu of every application? Is that because people have to know what version of the software they are using every time they start it? It's still like that today, and it's very very stupid. Other OSs get it right and put the version information on the last menu, where it doesn't clutter up the most prominent area in the most used menus.

Finder was crap in the 1980s. Still is crap, but it used to be crap too.

The window system in the 80s and 90s was also crap. Could not resize a window from any side or corner of the window except the lower right. Windows has had resizing from any edge or corner since forever.

Apple "design" is just not as good as people seem to think it is.

They've also had plenty of weird and unloved hardware designs... the infamous trash can, the clamshell laptop, the weird anniversary macs, a mouse with a charging port on the bottom so that you can't use the mouse while it's charging, and the list goes on and on and on.

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upvoteby muppetman5 hours ago|
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As someone who has switched from Windows to Apple recently, my God the Finder is terrible. I can't understand how people aren't flipping tables over how bad it is.
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upvoteby hollandheese4 hours ago|
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Because Mac OS X Finder has always been kinda terrible. There was a lot of talk about this in the early 2000s and it's just faded away since the people using macOS now probably never experienced the good old Mac OS 9 Finder.

And its Windows competition Windows Explorer has likewise gotten worse and worse each revision of Windows.

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upvoteby ChoGGi2 hours ago|
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Oh... Finder is the name of the default file browser? I always thought it was the search results that popped down from the top right search area.

Last Mac I was on still had OSX on it.

Thank goodness for Dopus.

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upvoteby leptons2 hours ago|
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lol, directory opus? I was using that on the Amiga way back in the day. I tried it like a decade ago, but it didn't stick for me. It doesn't seem to run on Linux, and it costs $$$, so no chance I'll try it again.
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upvoteby ethbr13 hours ago|
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I can't think of a better rationale for the ubiquitous worsening of local search than increasing ignorance of comp sci fundamentals.

There's no reason a senior at undergrad level shouldn't be able to write an efficient, fast, deterministic, precomputed search function.

... and yet, professional developers at major companies seem completely incapable.

Minimum acceptance criteria for any proposed shipping search feature should be "There is no file / object in the local system that fails to show up if you type its visible name" ffs.

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upvoteby tzs1 hours ago|
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What makes you think the first menu is one of the most used menus?
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upvoteby anonymars4 hours ago|
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Heh, you're going to mention a mouse without bringing up the puck?!
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upvoteby ChoGGi2 hours ago|
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I'm a little surprised they never came out with some oversized mouse pad and a mouse that charges from it.

Always seemed like an apple sort of idea.

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upvoteby happymellon3 hours ago|
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> a mouse with a charging port on the bottom so that you can't use the mouse while it's charging

I'm surprised you went for that over the puck. At least when you unplugged it, you could use it. The puck was just terrible. And old.

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