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Users Struggle to Use iPhone Features

posted by n1 on Monday June 05 2017, @05:19AM   
from the ask-siri dept.

"exec" writes:

As Apple prepares to show off new features for the iPhone and other devices at its developer conference on Monday, the company is grappling with an uncomfortable issue: Many of its existing features are already too complicated for many users to figure out.

At last year’s conference, for example, Apple’s top software executive, Craig Federighi, demonstrated how users could order food, scribble doodles and send funny images known as stickers in chats on its Messages app. The idea was to make Messages, one of the most popular apps on the iPhone, into an all-purpose tool like China’s WeChat.

But the process of finding and installing other apps in Messages is so tricky that most users have no idea they can even do it, developers and analysts say.

Source: The New York Times

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• Re:General problem with computing Re:General problem with computing (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday June 06 2017, @12:46AM (1 child)

  by hendrikboom (1125) on Tuesday June 06 2017, @12:46AM (#521081) Homepage Journal

  A few decades ago, you could just specify something like DISPLAY=spinach:4 when you start X and the processs started would use display number 4 on the machine known as spinach. Windowing over the network was that easy. The program running would just send all its draw requests to the other machine just like it would otherwise sent them to the local machine. Quite usable.

  But various security features have stopped that. Then you had to track down inscrutable sets of options before you can even start to do something like this.

  Nowadays, we have to pipe it through ssh -X, which sets up an invisible X server on the first machine, maps everything into bitmaps and sends draw commands to the other machine when things change. It seems like a lot of overhead for just a pipe.

  It has become impossible to run a program that puts multiple displays on multiple other machines over the net.

  By impossible, of course I mean the feature is probably still there, but it has become hard to try and find out how to set everything up so as to use it.

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• Re:General problem with computing (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 06 2017, @01:34PM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday June 06 2017, @01:34PM (#521311) Homepage

  And the useful feature of network transparency (I run headless machines, I want to be able to run graphical clients on arbitrary displays) has been actively removed from modern display systems, such as Wayland.

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