Was forced by work to update the iPad yesterday, let’s see…
F@cebook no longer formats properly in Safari. The ads increase to cover everything when I scale. And FB doesn’t present at all properly in either of the other browsers I have. Thanks for that.
Oh, the volume display is now an unbroken bar instead of dashes, the former allowing you to see at a glance where the volume was set. I’m sure that was incredibly necessary and urgent. I mean… dashes?! That was definitely worth the work, I’m sure! Why on Earth would you just LEAVE THE FUCK ALONE a minor, but useful minor display feature that nobody would have complained about if you’d LEFT IT THE FUCK ALONE. It didn’t need “improving”!!!
What else, what else… Ah, the size of a display I use every day has been shrunk for no apparent reason. No way to change that. Awesome.
F1refox now requires three actions to get to my bookmarks. Previously it opened right to them, but now the default screen is some kind of damn code reader. Do you goddam coders just sit around with nothing to do but monkey with software in an attempt to annoy us?
I’m sure there’s more. Goat felching crotch cannibals.
I find the link preview from a long press quite annoying.
The simple menu of View or Open in Safari options was fine.
It can be configured away in some Apps but in Twitter it cannot and when used on a news site I subscribe to, it ignores and wipes out the cached credentials.
The way I think of it - why should we have to get specialized software when we have web browsers? FB should fucking work in a browser. I suspect the app is more for their convenience than ours.
Some other things I’ve noticed…
They changed around the buttons in email. No apparent reason.
I hate hate hate the menu that now pops up when you long click on a link as JASG mentioned.
Also dislike how the magnifier has changed when you long press in an attempt to place the cursor. All of these things worked perfectly fine before they tinkered with them needlessly.
Yah I suppose. Web sites are generally designed for the precision of a mouse while an app is designed for the precision of a finger, so I will use apps where possible.
Perhaps the answer is that you know how some things work certain ways, and sometimes you think it should work a different way. Only you have that power to make the change instead of wish you can make that change. Well someone does have that power and changed it to their liking. I guess it’s good to be king.
The current issue with websites is that they are often designed for touch when they don’t need to be. Sure, the mobile version should allow touch, but there is no reason for desktop sites to have so much white space. You can detect if the user is using even a larger-screen tablet now, so there’s no excuse.
The main issue I have with websites is just that they tend to run slower than their app counterparts. So my use of apps is mostly just for sites that I use frequently and that need to run quickly. For instance, I have no Facebook app, because I rarely use Facebook. But I do have a YouTube app which is probably the most commonly used on my tablet.
I remember back when sites just were not made with mobile in mind. In 2004, surfing the web with my PocketPC sucked. But now? It’s perfectly fine, as long as I don’t need to type a lot.
And now FB just crashes in any browser, at least on an iPad after the update.
Is there a technical term for this? The “improvement” of software to the point where it no longer works? And please don’t be snarky and tell me this is an innocent and inevitable consequence of updating software for security purposes and whatnot. I’m not buying it. I’ve been noticing this more and more the last few years and frankly can’t believe that we’re collectively permitting it.
An adjacent question, perhaps one for another thread: What would software and computing look like if it were designed to work only in the user’s best interests? No data gathering that benefits the company and sold later, no planned obsolescence, no updates that simply rearrange interfaces so the company can pretend they’re improving the product. What if it was really designed for usability and sustainability?
Yes, we’d end up with much less freeware. But how would our tools look and behave compared to what we have now?
I’m an Android person, but I have to admit, I sure hear a lot more anguish out of Apple users when Apple updates stuff without warning them than I do out of Android users after Android updates.