Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers

Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by CWuestefeld on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:01PM (#35202110)

I've always used Android phones, but my company recently stopped supporting them and told me they have to issue me a new phone - this time an iPhone.

And I'm utterly lost. At one time, Apple was said to be the high priests of user experience, with intuitive interactions that would just work the way you expect. This seems to have fallen by the wayside, pushed out by making it more sophisticated I suppose. Because things that I do instinctively on Android, I just can't figure out how to do. I've had the phone a week now, and I still haven't figured out how to do a "Switch App" (like Alt-Tab). A few times I've accidentally hit it, but I can't figure out what the trick is.

I don't mean to say that it's objectively bad, but it sure has erected a wall against anyone who might migrate from Android.

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by disgruntledphd2 on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:59PM (#35202838)

Double tap the home button and it brings up the app selection screen. Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out some years back.

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by biggedyb on Saturday March 18, 2023 @06:43AM (#35207908)

What.. it doesn't really, does it? I'm going to try that now.

oh wow that's awesome. consider my hat truly doffed

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by CWuestefeld on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:51PM (#35241975)

Home button? My iphone doesn't seem to have a home button. The way I've gotten to the home screen is by a gesture flinging upwards from the bottom.

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by JohnFen on Friday March 17, 2023 @05:13PM (#35202976)

Yeah, I had to use an iPhone for a while, and found it incredibly frustrating to figure out how to do pretty much anything. Everything I wanted to do involved a whole bunch of blind searching.

I don't think it's the iPhone's fault. I think it's because I am used to Android.

Both Android and iPhone are very unintuitive and lack discoverability. You learn how to use them with experience.

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by CWuestefeld on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:35PM (#35203802)

Oh, I definitely agree with you. It's not that iPhone is worse than Android. It's that both of them have sacrificed discoverability.

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Re:Speak English to me, The secret World of Programmers by reboog711 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:03AM (#35208755)

> Apple was said to be the high priests of user experience

People say that, I always wonder how much of that was true. It took me three days to figure out how to get my iPad Touch to stop repeating a single song. I don't know how a single song got selected on repeat.

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