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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by mdemare on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:06PM (#32966951)
> The manual is also available as an 843-page ebook [2], and is accessible via the Tips app, which is preinstalled on the home screen.

I didn't know that. I thought Tips was an app that gave you a couple of dozens of tips, and nothing else.

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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by userbinator on Saturday September 24, 2022 @07:26PM (#32967521)
Undiscoverability strikes again!

Would naming it "User Manual" be any better?

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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by chrismarlow9 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @07:42PM (#32967608)
"it just works"
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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by oliveshell on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:05PM (#32968037)
To be fair, it does for most people.

That’s why they’ve never read the manual.

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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by chrismarlow9 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:09PM (#32972753)
Yeah I was mostly being snarky and pointing out the irony(?) of the manual itself not being a part of "it just works" because it's not called a manual and most people wouldn't expect it to be under "tips". The thing you need to know how it works doesn't "just work", but then again if it "just works" you shouldn't need the manual. Maybe it's a catch 22 instead of irony.
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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by bosie on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:41AM (#32969852)
What metric are you using to establish that claim though? Most people don't know what they don't know.
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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by Tijdreiziger on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:45AM (#32970492)
Most people don't care to know in the first place. Here on HN we are interested in technology and being a 'power user', but most users don't want to spend a lot of mental cognition on it.
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