machello13

No, but if that's the only benefit, I'll happy give that up in exchange for not having to deal with HTTPS.

Which regions have this? I'm in the US and haven't seen it.

Right, it sounds like we're on the same page. My point is that those apps are _worse_. They're just also cheaper to build.

> For reasons I don't totally understand, the platform vendors are themselves constantly invalidating the information in users' heads, so there's simply less in there for application developers to build on anyway.

To be honest, I'm not sure this is true. macOS has had pretty much 1 major redesign in recent memory (Big Sur), and even that is mostly a visual update -- functionality is all still there and works the same. Toolbar buttons are still toolbar buttons, you can still drag and drop them around, etc etc. In practice, the amount that actually "churned" is pretty small.

> Does it need to be? Not anymore.

I disagree. The fact that most users don't explicitly care is irrelevant — platform conventions are important. They teach a user how to use a new app without having to poke around. Users can drag and drop from one app to another and it just works.

I certainly see the argument that for many companies, it's simply too expensive to write native apps for every platform. But I don't think we need to pretend that non-native apps aren't worse — they're just economical and generally, even at their best, just _okay_.

> it's easy to mistakenly compare a $1000 laptop with a $500 laptop that doesn't have a video card.

Lol, come on dude. "Yeah I can see where you're coming from, if you're an idiot it's easy to think Apple is good."

No, not natively in the sense the built-in Camera app can do it, but that's not what the comment was saying.

Nope, previous iPhones also supported RAW photos (my iPhone Xs does).

you knew what he meant so what difference does it make?

Why not?

Good news for those who like working in the office — sounds like a glut of opportunities!

> was the right thing to do for end users.

Only because the company made the change anyway on a sister site, for an unrelated reason, and hadn't bothered to make the same change here.

Uh, what? People have been killing themselves with alcohol for thousands of years.

I think Apple’s argument for why slide to delete is not explained would be that it’s a shortcut — the explicit way to delete is to tap “edit” or “select” in a view, which exposes an explicit delete button on each row, or the ability to select rows and delete multiple. This is all explicit through buttons in the UI, and all of Apple’s apps tend to have this behavior (I can’t speak as to whatever UI you were trying to use 12 years ago). I would call that the “standard” way, whereas slide to delete is the fast way.

This isn't only present in "newer versions" of iOS — iOS has worked like that since day 1.

Android is based on Linux but isn't what anyone means when they talk about Linux. Plenty of stuff runs on Linux but the comment you're replying to mentioned usability specifically. Do you think Linux's general usability (i.e., not for you specifically, but for the average computer user) is on par with other OSes?

> I find the current state of the art on stylus text entry so disappointing.

I think your idea of the state of the art may be several years out of date.

From that wikipedia article:

> A common argument in the debate about whether cat ownership is ethical involves the question of toxoplasma gondii transmission to humans.[58] Even though "living in a household with a cat that used a litter box was strongly associated with infection,"[32] and that living with several kittens or any cat under one year of age has some significance,[59] several other studies claim to have shown that living in a household with a cat is not a significant risk factor for T. gondii infection. [49][60]

Right, but everything I mentioned exists in the UI. Just not the very last part.

> In a better OS there would be a "reset this service's configuration".

There literally is this option on iOS.

> macOS only caters to folks who prefer simplicity over power features

This is said quite often, almost as a given, but I never thought it reflected reality. macOS has an abundance of useful features for power users — system services, automator, AppleScript, tons of productivity touches like titlebar proxy icons and universal drag-and-drop support... not to mention it's all built on Unix so a terminal is right there for anything not exposed in the UI.

In my experience, using a VPN will get you the captcha every single time.

I wonder how they determine what an "app" is. Would "Camera" not be pre-installed anymore? Or "Settings"? "Files"? These seem like bare necessities.

True. But taking an overnight trip from NYC to Chicago is something you can do right now that is just as pleasant as the experience you described. There's definitely fewer options for destinations or schedules but the experience is there if you want it.

> If someone knows how to use something they can explain how it works at least in their mind

Can you explain how this squares with your other comment about how I couldn't possibly know how it works if I wasn't on the team who built it?

Have you ever used an iPad? I get the feeling you don't really know how it actually works.

> A 13 inch screen Ipad pro with a keyboard and 2TB of memory is $2500.

The 2TB memory is accounting for like half the cost there. You can get a model with less built-in memory and just use an external drive and the price drops down to like $1400.

Uh, this _is_ a thing in the US. Amtrak has many overnight routes with sleeper cars.

Right, are the researchers aware that devs can choose which countries their apps appear in? Seems like a really basic thing to miss.

I'm confused, you said there's a bug but as far as I can tell it's just that Safari disables using "tab" for more than form elements by default.