Cynflor

entropys said:

lkrupp said:

gregg thurman said:

Eric_WVGG said:

This is the number one thing that drives me nuts about iOS 11. I switch outputs 3+ times a day, as I go from home audio to airpods back home etc. No idea why they buried that away right when Airplay (in whatever its evolving form is) is becoming more ubiquitous than ever.

There is much in iOS that I no longer attempt to use.  Airplay is one of them.  I'm sure that would change if I were an Apple engineer, but I'm not.

Whatever happened to ease of use?

And that’s to your detriment. The inability to adapt places you behind the curve. Instead of adapting to new or different ways you just complain and stop using features. Sad.

Yes, clearly they are holding it wrong.

Personally, I reckon this is another example of designers having too much power over engineers.  Apple used to be famous for having the balance at the intersection of design and engineering more right than any other competitor. This has become quite muddied in recent times.

You're all hilarious, living in a ridiculous bubble.  The iPhone is a consumer product, and I'll bet you that 98% of consumers using it have zero idea how to use these functions, and I'd bet it was 99% until AI published this (being very generous to AI).  Apple's "designers" and "engineers" (shouldn't they be the same people?) are clearly just talking to themselves when creating a UX like this, in keeping with how little Apple seems to care about its consumer base actually utilizing the product anywhere close to its potential.  Everyone I know has an iPhone, but not one of them could even tell you what Airplay even does, much less how to find its settings.   

Or nostalgia:

davicho said:

95% of Brooklyners will not go here. Hard to get to.

Hard for some, very easy for others: the entire population (112,000-ish people, and growing) of Williamsburg (this location is at its center, and it's all within 15 minutes walking distance), and the entire population served by the L & J trains (i.e., Bushwick & East New York, north part of Bedford-Stuyvesant), and even parts of Manhattan near the L train (Stuyvesant Town & northern part of East Village).  I won't mention the G train because, as someone else commented, that train is a joke.   But probably this adds up to half a million people that the shop will be closer to than any Manhattan Apple Store.   Of course, half a million is a mere one fifth of the population of Brooklyn, which is itself larger than the combined populations of Seattle, San Jose and San Francisco, and would be the country's 4th largest city if it were on its own.  On the other hand, it has the 2nd-highest cost of living in the U.S., but the lowest per-household income of any county within 100 miles in any direction.  Fun facts!  Fuhgeddaboudit!