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Apple's Newest iPhone X Ad Captures an Embarrassing iOS 11 Bug (theverge.com)
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: If you blink during Apple's latest iPhone ad, you might miss a weird little animation bug. It's right at the end of a slickly produced commercial, where the text from an iMessage escapes the animated bubble it's supposed to stay inside. It's a minor issue and easy to brush off, but the fact it's captured in such a high profile ad just further highlights Apple's many bugs in iOS 11. 9to5Mac writer Benjamin Mayo spotted the bug in Apple's latest ad, and he's clearly surprised "that this was signed off for the commercial," especially as he highlighted it months ago and has filed a bug report with Apple.
It is an odd day on Slashdot when the most minor of UI bugs, so insignificant that if you didnt already know about it that you wouldnt even see it, makes the front page. I'm all for taking on companies that refuse to fix really annoying shit. But the slide of the bubble around the text slightly animating differently than the text itself for a fraction of a second only upon loading!? That's it..? REALLY?
Newton was right.
Yet another hopeless try to crush the American Empire.
Don't stare and forget to blink - that's the wrong way to wet your eyes ;-)
"Where R U?" is the most asked question on the super expensive iPhone.
Don't hit the glass office panel on your way out!
The entire premise of the ad is that faceid is so insecure that it will apparently unlock if anybody, not just the authorized owner, looks at it. That seems to be a far worse issue and one that is probably far harder to fix.
Apple's attention to detail was so good that they figured out the non-linear intensity needed to simulate breathing for their sleep lights.
https://patents.google.com/pat...
Now they can't even get a fucking animation to work properly.
"its just good enough"
There is another bug where if you type too fast the taps dont register correctly. It made rounds a few months before. If you tap the numbers in the calculator too fast you will get random results. Basically if you hit the next number in your input before the animation on the previous tap fully diappears, the tap does not register. Random digits dropped from your input to the calculator. A serious bug if there is one, given how much people have come to trust the calculator.
In our company we will classify this as a "Class 3 Error: An experienced user might trust the wrong answer" and report it to regulators of air safety, nuclear power commission and a dozen such agencies. Class 3 is worse than "crash, no answer" and "answer so wrong far out in the la-la land".
The fix they came up with, it looks like, is to adjust the timings of the animation, instead of buffering taps during animation, like a type ahead buffer of the keyboards.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
It took a while, but Tim Cook is finally starting to take a toll on the company. Just wait for the March 27th event. They will announce some new products that won't be available for purchase until the summer, but then the supply will be so limited you won't actually be able to buy one until the fall.
Apple's quality control has been seriously in the toilet the past couple of years. I can't decide if their newer engineers are just too green/incompetent, or if they have simply begun to lose focus again as in the Sculley years. Probably some combination of both.
Are overalls a fashion trend once again?
To me it looks like a neat little animation of the text box growing to accomodate the text. Who says this is a bug and is not the way Apple designed the text box to act?
But apparently they’re not concerned how supposedly super-secure and super-accurate Face ID was letting this young woman open up all sorts of stuff she shouldn’t have access to?
(Note to the humorless: this was a joke)
#DeleteChrome
Why is this important? You do realize that without the animations, polish, quality of life, and sparkle - an Apple device is like a pretend wanna be late bloomer to market on everything ... years and years and years behind the competition. The ONLY reason to purchase an iPhone is actually for all these little sliding thingies, popping thingies, fonty thingies, emoty thingies. So when those things break ... omg ... THE SKY IS FALLING! Because there's is nothing else.
What about the rest of the ad? It's just plain weird. I wouldn't watch that and think its going anything to do with the iPhone. And if I did make an association it'd be a negative one.
I don't watch TV so I haven't had much exposure to ads in the last 15 years. Is this normal?
The problem is that Apple is no longer throttling the processor because everyone complained about that.
I know you guys aren't very tech savvy here, so I will give you a short and simplified explanation: So the non-throttled processor is pushing out the text message soooooooo fast that the graphics chip can't keep up. Thus the animation lags behind the text. See? Simple. If things were being throttled (properly), it all would have been OK.
So really, you have all done this to yourselves and it's your fault and not Apple's. You should have just bought a new iPhone, like Apple wanted!
Also, this commercial helped me understand why all the millennial that work for me expect their work to just do itself when they just look at it. I have never understood why they had that expectation before.
Just STOP animating bloody things unless it's skippable, seamless, extremely fast, low on resource usage and SPECIFICALLY actually helpful in some way.
(Example, tutorial, an arrow boucing towards a start button or something)
Remember Windows 95 (or was it 98?) click start, go to programs and the list of programs slide out 400 bloody miliseconds later. Great the first time, AWFUL the 9,000'th time.
STOP ANIMATING NEEDLESSLY
LABEL YOUR FUCKING ICONS WITH TEXT
USING COLOURS IS NOT A BAD THING TO DIFFERENTIATE ICONS
PUTTING BORDERS ON BUTTONS IS NOT A BAD THING
Argh
Round up 98% of UI people and grind them into pig feed.
Donâ(TM)t blink. Donâ(TM)t even blink. Blink and youâ(TM)re dead.
There are two rules for success:
1. Never tell everything you know.
It's people like you who are dragging apple into the hole of mediocrity.