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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by chrbarrol on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:57PM (#21860208)
My first Apple product was a iPad Pro I got last year. I consider myself quite tech savvy, but the gestures was a huge pain-point when learning the device, to the point that it soured the whole experience for me:

When trying to find the WiFi toggle button (which is accomplished by "pinching" the screen) I basically just tried every possible gesture until I found the right one (I know that some gesture opened it from watching others). By far the worst and most memorable UX problem of the year.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by robertoandred on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:53PM (#21860958)
WiFi toggle is in the Settings app where it's always been. What's so confusing about that?
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by umbos on Sunday December 22, 2019 @07:11PM (#21860580)
Why wouldn't you just Google it? It would have taken you two seconds and then you'd have known all about control centre and how to access it.

Besides, none of those gestures are actually necessary; you could have gone settings app > Wifi > turn wifi on/off.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by hu3 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @07:35PM (#21860674)
> Why wouldn't you just Google it

You shouldn't have to Google for basic functionality such as WiFi toggle button.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by Zarath on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:41PM (#21861340)
Right, and you don't. Going to settings and toggling it is fairly obvious.
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by bouke on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:01AM (#21862864)
I think that after disabling WiFi, there's no Googling possible.
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by whywhywhywhy on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:21AM (#21863714)
> Why wouldn't you just Google it?

What if the problem was how to turn it on?

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