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0 pointswidowlark2y ago0 comments

I would like to better understand your mentality. Every Apple article I read has comments like yours, essentially saying "It works on my machine, its a YOU (the struggling users) problem".

Do you genuinely believe your response is helpful? Just like the OC, I too have noticed the atrocious editing and word manipulation in iOS and, just like OC, I have been text editing for my entire life. iOS is objectively bad at it, in many specific ways. The only way to improve it is for us to be honest about how it can be better and go from there. Coping with the issues as if they dont even exist is not a good path forward.

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coldtea2y ago· 2 in thread

>Every Apple article I read has comments like yours, essentially saying "It works on my machine, its a YOU (the struggling users) problem".

Rather, I'm saying: "it works, period" (on all machines).

The OC said it himself: "everyone overlooks it". Perhaps because it's not really there for them, and you're just more fussy ones?

>Do you genuinely believe your response is helpful?

Do you genuinely believe that any complain is legitimate?

The purpose of my comment wasn't to help with it (since I don't consider it broken): it was to counter the idea that "editing text is horrifically broken".

>iOS is objectively bad at it, in many specific ways.

If it was "objectively bad" I and the other commenter wouldn't be able to refuse it, nor would "everyone overlook it".

widowlarkOP2y ago

>If it was "objectively bad" I and the other commenter wouldn't be able to refuse it, nor would "everyone overlook it".

Something can be objectively bad without you noticing its failures. Consensus does not guide objectivity.

>Do you genuinely believe any complain is legitimate?

No, just legitimate ones.

>The OC said it himself: "everyone overlooks it". Perhaps because it's not really there for them, and you're just more fussy ones?

Fussy means to be overly caring about unimportant details. However, I would not call this issue unimportant.

coldtea2y ago

>Something can be objectively bad without you noticing its failures. Consensus does not guide objectivity.

It tracks it much better than outlier opinion though.

>Fussy means to be overly caring about unimportant details. However, I would not call this issue unimportant.

A feature might be important, but the complains about the feature can still be for fussy things that don't matter (or just be wrong).

Like complaing about how hard it is to use a trackpad instead of a mouse, and how Apple should fix this "somehow" on its laptops.

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