I HATE APPLE

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?

somewhat related, I always found it funny when mac users explain why having only one mouse button is actually an advantage

this thread for instance: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/01/30/1826233/why-apple-makes-a-one-button-mouse

I know (from experience) that it takes at least six years to explain left- and right-clicking to my father, who was 57 in 1999 when he got his first Windows PC. Ever since he found the right button, he has insisted on using it for literally everything, all the time, for no reason at all. Everything that you or I would just click on, he right-clicks, moves the mouse the requisite six inches up to the top menu choice, "Open," and clicks. No amount of explaining will do. He just will not use the left button. Every time I give him instructions and use the verb "click," he asks me, "Right or left click?"

So don't pretend that just because you told your three-year-old, "Only use this button," that everyone else has the luxury of such obedience from users. Many users (yes, PC users) have asked me repeatedly, "Right or left click?" because to them, it's simply not self-explanatory. They don't really understand what a context menu is, let alone the rule that "the right button always makes a context menu appear." My father would waste a lot less of his time if I plugged in an Apple USB mouse to his PC (it works, I tried it.) Of course, it'd be impossible to do certain things, but it's poor software design that requires two mouse buttons.

i've been a mac user for six years and i still miss right click and middle click. they're good functions and they don't need to go away.

But OS X has had the option to enable right click for, like, ever, doesn't it work with all of their mice?

yeah but it's a double-tap on trackpads, which is fine but there's not really a middle-click equivalent

having 2/3 buttons is nice and predictable in a way that tapping on glass isn't so much (anyone with an apple tv siri remote can attest to this)

I just use BetterTouchTool to configure a 4 finger tap to be the middle click.

I buy a better mouse.

Ahh fuck. I don't have an iPhone, but what am I going to do when they finally lightening bolt the mouses?

what the hell does middle click do

Open link in new tab for me.

btw i should point out that attaching a windows-style mouse gives you all the clicks out of the box, including the middle one

I set my Logitech mouse middle click to expose

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