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Re:UX Myths (2014) by shostack on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:40AM (#12829455)
My personal favorite...

The Google keyboard on Android offers text recommendations and let's you tap backspace after typing a word with the swipe-style keyboard to delete it in every other app except the native Google search app interface.

Searching on Google with the Google keyboard is painful. This is all on Android 5.1.1 at least. Searches for this bug turn up lots of equally frustrated people.

Re:UX Myths (2014) by erikb on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:51AM (#12829498)
Yeah the Google search in android is painful. Also in the subway with bad connectivity it's still possible to load facebook with gifs, pictures, texts etc. But a simple Google search is not possible.
Re:UX Myths (2014) by skj on Sunday October 30, 2016 @09:20AM (#12829630)
That's Facebook being clever and shuffling around posts it already had. That's not possible with a search query.
Re:UX Myths (2014) by kristopolous on Sunday October 30, 2016 @09:25AM (#12829645)
Really? Does this work in airplane mode?
Re:UX Myths (2014) by kristopolous on Sunday October 30, 2016 @09:10AM (#12829584)
There's countless times when I'm waiting for something and think "how crazy can this api possibly be?!"

I imagine some convoluted thing where they're passing authorization nonces around and getting normalized data so they have to make separate requests for each object id. (Eg: /business_name/:id, /descriptions/:id, /ratings/:id ... ) and bring it together client side... This isn't a request, it's a long conversation.