Seldom used 'i' mangled by baffling autocorrect bug in Apple's iOS 11 Apple says it is working on a fix for an annoying bug in iOS 11 that leaves some fans unable to properly type the letter 'i' without it glitching out. The Cupertino profit factory recommends peeps running iOS 11.1, the most recent version of its smartphone and tablet OS, change their keyboard settings to automatically replace …
They can just push a store update for the keyboard,oh wait it minute, I forgot it's not the far more modular and far more flexible android, apple need a whole new firmware update to fix this...
Funny that nobody ever talks about the huge benefits of Androids superior design, where even the oldest devices still get the latest system apps... They even get new system functionality via play services too...
Perhaps when the tech press become more mature and balanced in their reporting, we may stop regarding them as a total joke.
apple need a whole new firmware update to fix this...
Utter nonsense! The fix was just released and is 42.5mb for my iPhone 6S - if that's a "whole new firmware" then Apple have developed some sh¡t hot compression scheme, considering a full install is over a gig in size.
Apple have been doing "delta" updates for the operating system and apps for years.
Shame Android can update the keyboard, and all other system apps via the play store, and it even uses incremental diff,so a keyboard bugfix would be a couple of hundred Kb and happen without fuss, on iOS it's gigabyte of system updates and a reboot...
So I gave you a very valid and detailed reason why android is superior and you came back with a vague response that just said you wanted to avoid Android.
Not exactly a winner at arguments I guess....
The tech press didn't get it either, saying old android phones don't get updates, not getting the huge gulr between android and iOS update mechanisms. Even old Android 2.3 devices would get this keyboard bugfix in a far less invasive barely noticeable update... Only the latest iOS devices would get this and need a full system update to do so.....
And with all those updates they still haven't fixed the Bluetooth bug. Various hardware back to at least the iPhone 6 after upgrading the 11 and no longer stay connected to various Bluetooth devices. Apple is now claiming that it is a problem with the devices, not 11, though everything was fine on 10. Even more amazing, I haven't seen any coverage of this problem in the press.
Just go into settings -> general -> accessibility -> millennial users, and toggle ‘encourage excessive narcissism‘ to ‘yes’. This allows unfettered and unlimited use of ‘I’ and ‘me’ in messages and tweets. The setting was accidentally set to ‘no’ by a 45 year old Apple coder just prior to the iOS 11 release.
Where oh where did I read something similar before? I remember - in a Letter to the Editor ca 1950 (where I first learned of the faux "Socrates quote" berating youth 2,500 years ago).
Most people have always believed fake news, editors were as useful then, in situ, as they are now, in absentia, and kids have been annoying their elders forever.
Translation: you're already a narcissist, senile and/or were born w/o ECC and write-leveling NAND Flash.
I do not use autocorrect on my phone. My vocabulary is much too much for it to keep up with. I let it suggest words on the bar below but only because it amuses me how infrequently it even comes close until I'm just one letter from the end so what is the point? After near 2 years it still can't keep up with me.
I'm not trying to boast, English was my best subject at school despite ending up as a scientist so it is hardly surprising.
Besides having the word I'm trying to type writhe while I'm trying to type it does my heid in. I'm also put off by the mangled malapropisms my wife and daughters send me. Often closely followed by the correction.
Shouldn't that be 'After nearly 2 years'?
And 'heid'?
And 'mangled malapropisms'?
Aren't malapropisms already in a sense mangled grammar, so are you guilty of tautology when you write of mangled malapropisms?
I have no idea if I'm correct with any of the above because I was born and raised in Birmingham, England, and correct grammar ain't our forte, but I do like to question things.
Any grammar pedant want to rip Muscleguy's post apart, I think he/she's asking for it...
I think you'll find that "heid" is a perfectly good word north of the Tweed.
Usage : "awa an bile yir heid"
You're probably right about 'mangled malapropisms' unless the OP's family were trying to point out hilarious stuff that other people texted them with and inadvertently auto-corrected it to something legible...
Smiling muchly at the "line noise" at end of article. Burmese for "I should get a response", Chinese for "not yet have", "we will update soon" in Nepali, "this article if necessary" in Russian.
BTW: Any chance somebody at Apple simply got their UTF-8 atwist twixt keyboard and correct? Maybe in celebration they didn't screw up daylight saving time switchback?
If you axe feeling nostalgic, I can sell you such a typewxitex today.
Or, should you want to keep up with the millennial hipster fanbois, I can sell you one without the letter "i", but that's special order only (I don't keep them in stock, no demand) & will cost 10 times as much.
The very definition of a bad keybr0ad were those of the Commodore PET. Both of them. Followed closely by the horrific PCjr ... and I'd have to say the Timex Sinclair's variation on the theme was marginally worse than the ZX Spectrum's. Then there was the Atari 400 (which I don't classify as an actual keyboard), and what was that thing made by Mattel? Aries? Sagittarius? Aquarius? Bloody awful, regardless of what it's name was.
Bad is subjective, but it might make a fun ElReg poll!
I think we can all agree that the very best production keyboard ever made is the Model M. Cheers to that, at least.
So ... just how much testing did the current release get?
Did the developers finalize the release and then take off for a long liquid lunch? After much discussion, about four in the afternoon, one of them called into the office and told the secretary to send the code over to production for release because they weren't going to be back today?
And, apparently, they have no QA department. Or they DO have a QA department, but simply don't give a fuck about shipping crap code for all the world to see.
If I were an AAPL shareholder, I'd be asking some serious questions ... but I'm not, so I'll just point and giggle.
Throw the code together, No testing or ignored testing. Ship it.
It makes economic sense, right up to the point where your customers, en masse, decide that you are taking the piss with the $1000 price tag and decide to Switch Brand, at which point your company has its Ratner Moment.
So, yeah, consider this a *big* heads-up for shareholders: a computer that can't spell its own name.
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