I use a lot of programming and sef hosting things at home. I have to enter passwords and write basic text files which have to be accurately read by all devices.
I, for the life of me, could not manage to solve a problem about a password. I tried many forums and what not and eventually a person on one of the forum said that my syntax is incorrect. I was so confused because I have done the exact same thing hundreds of times and it never caused an issue.
What I wanted to write was (quotes are a part of it) ‘xyz’. This is what my PC writes. iOS decides that it should be ‘xyz’. There is a subtle difference in the quotes if you look carefully.
I wanted to trash by iPhone and buy an Android so bad at that moment.
Anyways that setting can be changed by turning off smart punctuation in keyboard settings. But the point is trashy defaults with no clear communication about it.
This whole post might be stupid and petty but it is pushing me to stop using everything Apple.
If such a minor inconvenience that can be trivially worked around is enough to get you to destroy an iPhone and stop using Apple products altogether, what will you do when you inevitably encounter something of similar magnitude on Android? Do you think there are no bugs, inconsistencies, or questionable choices on Android?
I encounter the same smart quotes issue every now and then when I copy-paste commands from Word documents. Such documents are usually sent by customers or written by other employees. Should I quit my job over this?
It was the final straw kind of a thing. I have been having many issues or feeling restricted due to the lack of some options in iOS.
Don’t listen to this person. Somehow they stumbled into the wrong community.
What?
The person you are responding to. Don’t listen to THAT person.
Ohh, why?
It’s not that there are one or two “minor inconveniences,” as you put it. It’s that we are inundated with them, and many aren’t minor. And they seem like willful fuck yous to anyone who is slightly above average user skill. Some of this crap could only have been deliberately made worse in development.