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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by tcfunk on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:33AM (#15541375)
Yes! Especially if what I'm wanting to do is take a video of my kid. By the time I get the photo app to respond well enough to swipe over to video and let it readjust itself, I have missed the moment by seconds.
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Re:Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator by rikkus on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:41AM (#15548723)
This is one of the major pains that tore me away from Android (where I had several ‘flagship’ phones and kept them free of crap). If iOS keeps heading this way, what’s left?

Back in the 90s I decided we needed a real-time UX - hard real-time guarantees. I had no idea how to even start with this, especially as the only OSes I knew well were UNIX-like, none of which did real-time. There was QNX(?) but I didn’t have access to play with it.

So do we need an effort to make a new real-time phone OS? Kinda like the Firefox phone OS project but built on an OS that allows guarantees?

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