Re:Why iOS 7 is making some users sick
by veidr on Saturday September 28, 2013 @10:00AM
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> I suspect Apple will either want to release an update which gets rid of the [crap] or face an ADA class-action lawsuit.
That would be terrific, and it wouldn't be the first time that regular users got a great boost from efforts to help the disabled. OS X sucked in all sorts of ways too, until they really got their Accessibility story dialed in.
To be one of those awesome guys who quotes himself, back in 2008 when a third-party utility finally was able to leverage the accessibility features to fix OS X's broken, decades-out-of-date window resizing, I said in a blog post[1]:
> That seems to me to be an entirely legitimate use of
> the Mac's Universal Access capabilities, albeit a
> little backwards: in this case, it's the computer that's
> crippled, not the user.
Apple, of course, eventually fixed window-resizing (in 10.7 I believe), and I suspect that they will eventually fix some of these iOS 7 issues, too. But sooner would be better. You don't have to get physically sick to be really sick of seeing some of these too-long/jarring/useless animation effects.
That would be terrific, and it wouldn't be the first time that regular users got a great boost from efforts to help the disabled. OS X sucked in all sorts of ways too, until they really got their Accessibility story dialed in.
To be one of those awesome guys who quotes himself, back in 2008 when a third-party utility finally was able to leverage the accessibility features to fix OS X's broken, decades-out-of-date window resizing, I said in a blog post[1]:
Apple, of course, eventually fixed window-resizing (in 10.7 I believe), and I suspect that they will eventually fix some of these iOS 7 issues, too. But sooner would be better. You don't have to get physically sick to be really sick of seeing some of these too-long/jarring/useless animation effects.[1]: http://masonmark.com/power-windows-for-your-mac