Re:An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year...
by cyberferret on Monday September 12, 2016 @08:13PM
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One of the most annoying things to me about the Apple Watch is the fact that the icons tend to move around to random locations whenever an update is done. My eyesight is not up to par any more, and I rely on the app I need being in a particular spot on the cluster of tiny icons on my wrist, and when it moves, it is nigh on impossible to find quickly.
I appreciate the irony that the company touted for reinventing and improving UX is now setting fire to that legacy.
Re:An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year...
by MBCook on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:27PM
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The bubble screen is terrible, but at least in watchOS 3 you're supposed to almost never have to use it.
It's one of those interfaces that looks great in the video and it's horrible to use in real life.
Re:An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year...
by fredsir on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @01:45AM
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I dread the bubble screen. Having used watchOS 3 for months, I cannot remember having used it for months. It's just not how you do it anymore. You either pin apps in the dock, which is awesome, or as a complication on one of your watch faces. I currently have 5 watch faces I all use for different scenarios.
It's awesome compared to watchOS 2!
I know John Siracusa really wants it back, but I couldn't remember how great it was.
Recently it hit me that iOS is completely spatial. I don't know where any of my apps are, except that they are on this location on the screen on this page of apps. The only way I can find them is by their spatial location. I'm not looking for Overcast, I'm looking for the thing that second from the bottom of the second page on the left-hand side. More than once I've opened an app and forgot what I was looking for until I opened it because I was only thinking about where it was in the interface.
Oh well. We'll probably never get it back.