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Posted by ozzyphantom 1 day ago

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android(ios-countdown.win)
1555 points | 758 commentspage 13
kleiba 1 day ago|
Bitdefender flagged that website for me, but it does not give me any useful details as to what the reason might be...
charcircuit 1 day ago||
I prefer the iOS keyboard than over the Android ones. Why does my autocorrect work fine and my keys and swipe typing work, but not yours?
everybodyknows 1 day ago||
> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.

Here's a more substantive reason to prefer iPhone to Android: Android phones, mine anyway, have no option to suppress audible notification of incoming texts or calls from numbers not found in Contacts.

crossroadsguy 19 hours ago||
That's the thing. Android is equally bad in their own idiosyncratic ways. Or actually worse if you factor in stuff like Google tracks everything you do or don't do on the phone or while having the phone on you and sells/exposes those trackings to advertisers, even when you explicitly ask it to not do that. Its distractive design is by design.

If you are going to change the iOS just for the keyboard (and yeah it's keyboard is bad; but that's not even a mild atrocious design and implementation decision they have made) then I guess your intention is just a big rant and a this post and a little discourse and that's it. Esp. the 120 days timeline. To be honest if you had to switch you'd have switched you know if Apple even does such "fixings" they will take decades (not years) because 1). yes, they are that incompetent when it comes to software, 2). they wouldn't want to mix the opportunity to say even something silly like For the First Time on an iPhone™ you have TrueAutocorrect™ (which will stick suck and will be at least 2 decades behind the 20th worst Android keyboard)

So yeah, good luck.

sleight42 19 hours ago|
But there are the forks of Android that don't include anything Google.
pickleglitch 1 day ago||
You send an email to customer service to complain. I build a whole ass website to complain. We are not the same.
seven237 1 day ago||
The problem with Linux phone is app support. I dont know how it can compete with Apple or Android.
everyone 1 day ago|
What? there's probably millions of programs for Linux.
thewebguyd 1 day ago||
Sure there is. But not for wha people use their phones for.

Can I call an Uber from a Linux app? Pay for things with tap to pay? Food or grocery delivery? Public transit passes? Etc.

Windows phone tried to unseat the duopoly. The OS was surprisingly good. But, no one made apps so it died.

Same thing for Linux phones.

edit if Apple didn’t go through great lengths to cripple PWAs then it wouldn’t be as big a problem. But even all the various services are crippling their own websites to direct people to apps for that sweet sweet data harvesting.

everyone 22 hours ago||
U have internet and browser on Linux phone.. If the service cant be used with those (or some other normal software) then its not worth using.
nathancahill 1 day ago||
It's so bad. I think it has to do with touch targets because the slide to type is great in my opinion.
Willish42 1 day ago||
> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to the blue bubble pressure.

I know this is somewhat a joke site, but I think admitting this really proves Apple's dominance and doesn't really help in making your case. So long as the walled garden / "platform" approach still works, enshittification will continue

bentt 1 day ago||
Yep! I can’t type on this thjng
halapro 1 day ago|
I don’t think the keyboard is any more broken than it has ever been. It works pretty well for me aside from its awful, awful repeated "corrections" it applies, I delete and it reapplies. This is not new at all.

There are a lot of broken things in iOS, just try any apps in landscape and you'll wonder if QA even realizes the iPhone has landscape.

whicks 1 day ago|
Someone actually took the effort to make a video to show how broken it is, it’s worth a watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

It’s only 2 min 24 sec.

halapro 19 hours ago||
I know the video, again it doesn't matter. I speed type on my phone exactly the same way I used to. I understand how autocorrect works and that it retroactively fixes multiple words later on. I typed this whole comment on my iPhone and I encountered no such issue.

What the video shows could be a problem only if you disable autocorrect or if you want to type a single letter. I made a bunch of errors typing this one and in the end the phone autocorrected it all.

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