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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by franl on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:07PM (#15628000)
Here’s another to add to the list: Ask your Apple Watch what the weather is. Crashes the watch and restarts it. Confirmed on my Watch S0 running latest version of iOS 11. Found out from https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-watch-bug-causing....

If anyone from Apple is listening, please please please raise this up the flagpole on your teams. I love Apple, and think they’re doing fantastic work overall. I get that there are unique problems with having such massive scale, but iOS 11 has been a mess from the beginning.

Edit: It’s apparently “springboarding”, not restarting. Very similar experience either way.

Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by manojlds on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:14PM (#15628020)
Apple's advantage has always been writing software to work on limited hardware that they control. They don't have unique problems with massive scale.
Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by nextos on Sunday November 05, 2017 @12:28AM (#15628167)
And also a relatively small product line, which should make quality control easier. Although the product line has grown a bit lately.

I find it interesting to note how the quality of some Apple and Google software products is declining lately. Google Hangouts is a total buggy mess. And Gmail is worse than it was some years ago. It seems that big organizations inevitably get more disordered as they grow and age.

I wonder if this can be avoided or mitigated.

Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by ianai on Sunday November 05, 2017 @07:48AM (#15629160)
Hasn’t Apple lost many of their top engineers recently? That could definitely contribute.
Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by ourcat on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:01AM (#15629953)
My feeling is that since Steve went, the engineers have nobody to be absolutely shit-scared of and the quality of software has gone down ever since.
Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by franl on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:15PM (#15628022)
I’m not saying unique to Apple. I’m saying unique to companies operating at massive scale.
Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by thinkythought on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:31PM (#15638756)
On a related note with the watch, try making a call using the watch as a speakerphone.

I know a lot of people hate this feature, but i use it all the time while driving. It will literally, every time, connect the call then go to "call failed" after 5~ seconds. This is completely reproducible on my parents and roommates S0's even after a pair/unpair(which is to my understanding the closest you can get to a "restore")

I've also gotten this to completely lock up the watch at the 'call failed' screen a few times, too