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> This is not the attention to detail Apple is supposedly known for.

It is the kind of annoying amusing malfunction Apple apps are known for. Autocorrect was another big offender for years. The funniest for me was when my iPhone insisted on changing “there” into “they’re” when “there” was correct

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Apple autocorrect has gotten worse over the past few years. The worst part is that it often changes words that were correctly typed to something wrong without the user noticing.

There are also obvious mistakes with location that just shouldn’t happen. If I am in Glasgow and ask Siri “how far to Loch Lomond?” it should be obvious that I mean Loch Lomond in Scotland and not Loch Lomond VA.

It’s interesting to note Woz’s current enthusiasm for the watch because he was very down on it when it launched.

Apple Watch at has gotten significantly better since its launch.

It shouldn't have been released at the state it was in the first place

I remember how many people said that about the iPhone.

I don't know about other countries, but that also happens to me with Google Maps in Mexico. I sometimes query a street located in my city and it will send me thousands of kilometers away (even if they do have the street in their DB).

I guess Google Maps calculates the probability a place will be looked for, and of course a small street in a not too big city in Mexico will be less likely to be searched than a popular place in Europe. But common if I wanted to look for something in Europe I'll zoom out and place the map in Europe. If my zoom is in my city I obviously want to look something in MY CITY!

By far the greatest improvement I have ever made to just about all of my machine learning based apps was moving to San Francisco. You’d be surprised how well they all work here.

Whenever I go visit back home in Slovenia my phone loses about 60% of its utility overnight.

I was two blocks from WeWork in downtown San Francisco, which is not a place I know well, entered the exact street address, and Apple Maps sent me two blocks farther away, I had to switch to Google Maps.

This happens to me sometimes when I travel/move. I'll enter a search on Google Maps, and it will sometimes search where my previous settlement was. Like, I'll search for a Best Buy in my current location, but for some reason it will search where I was yesterday.

> Apple autocorrect has gotten worse over the past few years

At least then you can blame it for replacing "become" with "gotten"!

I’ve honestly wondered if autocorrect machine learning has picked up on poor autocorrect choices, causing a reinforcement loop, causing it to continue getting worse

If there were one metric that i wish apple would actually capture and share with everyone in the world is:

How many backspace keystrokes and seconds have been wasted due to autocorrect features on phones

The other one only the universe knows:

how much time has been wasted by humans untangling headphones which get tangled due to the grippy texture-finish of their rubberized coating

Good news: https://youtu.be/9D_oV14dGmM

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