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jeremy dickson ‏@jeremydickson4 7h7 hours ago
@fraserspeirs saw my daughter doing that yesterday. I immediately had a conversation with her about it. At 11 maybe there's still hope.

can we meme spiers headshot? his is the true apple user face

that's not actually a thing is it

Not loving the new home button

I didn't realize you didn't have to close out apps!

Whenever you read anything about preserving battery life, someone will offer the tip to turn off Background App refresh, which allows open apps to continue to suck power from your battery. The solution then would seem to just knock out every app after you're done using it, right?

You even have Mac users on official support.mac forums saying the same thing with no one disputing them. Lord knows the thing you hear with desktop computers is "you've got too many software programs running at once."

So it all seems to have alluded to closing out apps when you're done with them, and Apple hasn't really gone out of its way to correct anyone.

iirc closing apps isn't a silver bullet in ios. it's good if an app is misbehaving and needs a flush, but generally it doesn't improve phone performance or battery life. ios is pretty good at power management.

you see a lot of ex-android users feverishly closing all their iphone apps, and coming from android you couldn't blame them tbh

Ha, I went Apple -> Android, and I'm all "see? now why didn't my iPad have a 'task manager'?"

it's critical in android in my experience

there's always a high noise/signal ratio on forums but from a decade ago, when it was a growing community to now, it's really blossomed into full-blown conspiracy theory territory

it's like mid-90s microsoft users, with folk wisdom, blind dismissals of anything without an apple logo, other blind dismissals of any apple product other than one that is stumped for, and who knows what else

there have been a handful of really badly-behaving apps that have had bugs requiring a force-close, but it was mostly in the days soon after apps actually got the ability to run background tasks. in either macOS or iOS, closing applications is no longer a big deal. it might speed some things when opening new stuff, since there's some maintenance overhead when the OS throws things into stasis and out of memory, but it's not necessary

even closing tabs in safari isn't going to help a lot. those get dropped out of memory as needed.

Love the new shortcut to close all mobile safari tabs.

Got my iPhone 7 and considering returning it. Lightning audio sounds noticeably worse than 3.5, Taptic home button is irritating and not much else here that's a noticeable improvement

even closing tabs in safari isn't going to help a lot. those get dropped out of memory as needed

I tend to end up with several tabs open in safari on my iPhone simply as reminders of things I want to go back to: simpler for me than bookmarks or copying to Evernote

Love the new shortcut to close all mobile safari tabs.

I like this 7 phone so far

I have taken low light pictures of two toddlers and a cat and they look really nice.

Completely baffled at the iMessage options. Make a watercolor heart animation with two fingers?? Why? I tried like 15 of them in a message to my dad, thinking I would have the chance to cancel, but they all sent straight away so he got like 20 weirdo messages (I guess? Even though I didn't tap 'Keep'?). One of them had a cartoon exclamation point added to it - and now my message history contains a separate message reading 'Emphasised Digital Touch Message', as if I sent a message to him that says that. Except I didn't - it's some kind of 'receipt', or confirmation of an effect that I added to a message? Almost feels like some kind of debug code that got left in. Bad!

I made this happen finally. http://i.imgur.com/um1CRBQ.jpg

huh?

I think it's the Eiffel tower

the iMessage options are such a hilarious mess -- cluttered, unintuitive, and also completely useless, it is so antithetical to Apple's streamlined minimal only-give-them-what-they-need approach! I don't understand! It feels like some goofy cobbled-together beta thing some devs made just to fuck around w/ each other and then it like accidentally made it into the final release

also this http://gizmodo.com/why-would-apple-turn-its-messaging-app-into-such-a-nigh-1786616252

Planning to return my 7 today. Can't justify $31/month for this minimal improvement over my current phone, and the audio thing is a big drawback for me.

yea the headphone jack thing is really bad

im due for an upgrade in march and im just gonna do the SE

i never liked the design on the 6 anyways

yeah I'm just going to fix the screen on my 6 I decided, and either trade in for a 6s or just hold off. The only thing that makes me not want to hold off is that my last iPhone started to have really bad touchscreen and other functionality problems around the 2-year mark.

my 30 year old 5 has finally started to literally come apart at the seams so I'm gonna preorder an SE later today I guess

when my 5 started coming apart at the seams (literally) earlier this year I took it to an apple store & for 70 euros I got a brand new 5. lots cheaper than an SE, which mattered a lot at the time. worth a shot?

oh btw the problem was that the battery was bulging and they said it could have exploded I dunno

idk I'm about ready to upgrade, thing feels sluggish and obv needs a ram upgrade to hold onto more than 2 safari tabs at once, and I can deal with the $18/mo at&t is asking, I just haven't found the recent iterations v inspiring. I'll spend some time with a friend's 6s later and see if I can deal with the larger form factor but the design of the 5 is m/l perfect to me

otoh ideally it will now explode and kill me

I'm not even remotely considering the 7 tho so good job on that apple

My 5s is probably the end of the Apple road for me. I love it, love the shape, and absolutely hate the design from 6 on,which to me just looks and feels so cheap, imitating Samsung edges.

I have nowhere to go once this one breaks down tbh

you could get the SE which is the same design as the 5s but has some update stuff inside? idk

Oh it is? I dont know anyone with an SE. If they continu that line I'm a happy camper

yea me too

huh didn't know about the SE -- seems pretty perfect for my needs, and might be the thing that keeps me from going to android/google fi

I dont know anyone with an SE.

a lot of the time when people are using what looks like a 5/5s, it's an se. there's loads out there. the giveaway is that the chamfering around the screen is matte and matches the sides/back of the phone, rather than being super-shiny and chipping off.

the magic mouse works pretty well but i have to say this is the dumbest shit ever, first time i've had to do this since i got this mac at my new job

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/magic_mouse_2_charging.jpg

the fuck

at least the mouse lasts a fairly long time without having to do that

Tried the Magic Mouse several times, so annoying. Maybe it's because of my default claw grip but I hate it how it's designed to "alt-click" which means forcing your hand into a curve posture so you're only touching certain portions of the mouse.

so disruptive....brilliant

magic mouse is the pits

Magic Trackpad awesome though.

i have both at work but i think i prefer the mouse to the track pad, it's easier on my wrists

prefer in use that is, the charging thing is bullshit

there's a lady at the place i work who has been using a magic trackpad as the mouse pad for her regular old PC mouse. the person she took over for used it w/ their iMac but i guess just left the trackpad in a drawer or something. i'm not sure how she came to the conclusion that it should be used as a mouse pad but i don't have the heart to tell her what it is.

Is she holding it to the screen and moving it around?