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Greg KnaussMy timeline currently consists of posts that say:
“iOS has a cultural advantage over Android because of Apple’s relentless focus on highly-polished UX.”
And:
“I tried to move an app on my home screen and fifteen icons disappeared; I had to reboot.”
Anil Dash@gknauss worst part is that the latter doesn’t disprove the former.
Scooba@anildash
I have had the same (with additions) layout since the Pixel 2 XL (2017) with no thought. iOS has way more better quality apps, but the OS is wonky. I rocked with an iPhone until the 6s Plus (left because my iMessage was broken and Apple could not fix, I guess I'm a legacy user with @mac domain). I worry for my MacBook for the iOSfication of MacOS. People complain about non native apps when Apple's direction for MacOS apps is abstraction, React native but for Apple platforms.
@gknauss
I have had the same (with additions) layout since the Pixel 2 XL (2017) with no thought. iOS has way more better quality apps, but the OS is wonky. I rocked with an iPhone until the 6s Plus (left because my iMessage was broken and Apple could not fix, I guess I'm a legacy user with @mac domain). I worry for my MacBook for the iOSfication of MacOS. People complain about non native apps when Apple's direction for MacOS apps is abstraction, React native but for Apple platforms.
@gknauss
BrokenFlows@gknauss I may be one of the latter 😂
Jeffy 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺@gknauss iPad *is* Magical.
hot coffee
Simon Müller 
The iPhone 7 of a friend of mine resprings when they try to show/hide a page of their homescreen
(Respring = springboard restart, which essentially means the System's UI as well as your open apps entirely restart without rebooting the whole device)
jbroome@gknauss rearranging icons on iOS has been dogshit for ages. Really wish they had a better way.
Cédric Bellegarde@gknauss Same when I see an iphone user closing 15 apps one by one or 200 tabs in safari.
jmorris1974@gknauss not a developer or UI engineer, but it can’t really be that hard to have icons just stay in place and be able to be placed anywhere.
mike@gknauss Google vs Apple is such a Coke vs Pepsi debate. They’re both killing us, they are practically identical, but we still have a preference. The psyops is working.
Steven Op de beeck@gknauss @chockenberry everything rots eventually.
Anyway, this is probably just a stupid bug in a piece of software that was crap since day 1.
Rob Shearer@gknauss there is something to be said for the argument that the best indication of what a culture values is what it complains about.
(The often-infantile American discourse over “free speech” is less frustrating and more reassuring when you see how (little) the issues are addressed elsewhere. But only “less” and “more”; still frustrating, still not *very* reassuring.)
The Bear (Stephen Rodda)@gknauss whom do you work with?
People with ADHD?
Sam Gross@gknauss @rustyshelf design is how it works™
rus@gknauss My first smartphone was an iPhone 3GS on launch day. It's one of the last things I waited in line before the store opened to buy. I always wanted the extensibility Android offered, but wasn't willing to give up the polish, especially in those early days. I switched over to Android in 2020. Android polish is "good enough" and I'm loving how much more control I have. Having used both phones for remote desktop connections, I'm still frustrated that Apple refuse mice on phones.
Josh Stevenson@gknauss I will only say that, I kind of appreciate a place where the controversy of the day has this kind of flavor 😂
Collin Donnell@gknauss Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦@gknauss I just had this conversation yesterday with colleagues at work. Apple’s attention to software detail is perplexingly inconsistent: often things are just delightful, thoroughly designed, like “of course they thought of that”. But then you come across one of these features where the issues are obvious and sometimes long-standing, but seemingly no one cares enough to even bother trying to fix it – at least looking at it from the outside.
Matt Birchler