You didn't grow your audience by adjusting your opinions so they fit everybody's vision of the products. Is your authenticity and objectivity what makes your channel awesome and also what makes u a great reviewer. Don't change a thing, don't give them that satisfaction. These kind of haters don't deserve that from you.
"Authenticity and objectivity" Meanwhile the title of the video that comment Linus is talking about came from: "I hate giving Apple my money" Yeah right.
Whenever Linus said something about a manufacturer being shit, it's always explained/has been explained in the past. Telling people that you focus on privacy only to fuck them over is just not cool. Not giving an option to repair stuff is not cool. Aggressive upselling is just annoying af, and you should not subscribe to your cars speedometer. That's just a bunch of BS to legally steal your money.
Honestly, as an apple user, your takes on what would be better are always spot on. You don’t come off as entitles at all. I use iOS and macOS because I personally prefer them, they aren’t objectively better, and there’s definitely things that could improve. I’d love a proper back swipe or button, and most of the things you’ve said iOS is missing is accurate and it’d be better if they had them
Bro finder is probably the best damn file explorer to ever be created. Nothing on Linux or windows comes close. I don’t think people realize just how far ahead it still is.
Although the swiping back always works, and is always reachable for me so what he said at 2:58 just isnt true. He’s right about it being a choice being better
Out of curiosity: what do you need raw mouse input for on macOS? I only know about the importance of raw mouse input when gaming. EDIT: Thanks for the genuine answers. As I only use a trackpad on my Mac, I didn’t know that a mouse feels so much worse on macOS.
UI Feedback from someone who is not used to it is often far more useful than feedback by someone who is used to the UI. We saw that in the Linux challenge - sure, watching Linus use Linux sometimes is like watching a grandparent attempt to navigate a Phone, but that is exactly what makes it incredibly valuable. Especially because he has the the reach to get things changed that need changing. I sometimes disagree with Linus and a lot of the stuff covered these days is so far in the high end that the unboxings and reviews are rarely useful for me personally, but Linus always has well substantiated opinions and a lot of integrity - and that's what I value in a tech youtuber.
Exactly. Things sometimes seem obvious but theyre only so because youve been in the ecosystem a long time. If new users struggle with it, thats an opportunity to do the design better.
Especially if it’s a company that cares about actually getting new users. I’ve had an iPhone for years, and there’s still things I didn’t know I could do because it’s not told to you anywhere
i would say as well issues that come in from user error, sometimes the real culprit is the UX design being bad. where it doesn't really communicate to the user properly on how to use it.
Dude the cruise controll thing is something I agree with you on. Setting your speed removes one thing to pay attention to, so you can focus more on everything else. I am soo happy that my cars lowest cruise speed is exactly 20 mph.
Mine is 20km/h, so it is even slower. But it is still a 20, funny enough. I use the speed limiter in these situations. This sets a maximum speed, where cruise control sets a minimum speed. I can lift up the accelerator to slow a bit more down and press it fully to go back to the limit. Seems to me to be a safer option and most cars have this.
My (radar) cruise control's minimum speed is 19 MPH, and I use it literally every time I'm in a school zone. I struggle to understand the conviction that keeping your foot on the gas and focusing on the speedometer is somehow safer than allowing cruise control to free up your foot for quicker braking and your eyes for focusing on the environment.
I disagree with you and Linus here and the problem is probably that he says "it is objectively better" when there are valid reasons to think why it may be not. What I would do in a school zone (or anywhere else) is when I see a child or a dog or so that behaves weird and I think it might run into the street I will take my foot off the accelerator and hover over the brake. In that case you have the same reaction speed as with cruise control but are already slower if something happens. I know from personal experience with rentals that I will not tap the brake and reset the cruise control later when I feel I might be a hair too fast since that feels like annoyance.
@@1337Jogi You can actually cancel cruise control same way you turn it on (most cars lever or button on/near steering wheel). You don't necessarily have to press brake pedal to turn it off/ slow down. For example on my Audi I can manually adjust speed with a lever near steering wheel. I am from Eu and we have home/school zone where max speed is 20km/h(~13mph) and I use cruise control all the time with no issues. Trust me I can stop my car almost instantly, so I don't see any point going any slower or jerking my throttle
@@Justin_Leahy And that is fine. If for you it works better that way by all means keep it. I just can say that for me personally I find it annoying to deactivate and reset the cc and sometimes drive a tad faster than I would without it because I just leave it on. So the problem here is more Linus' statement that it would be objectively better. Which it is not and maybe make people feel that he thinks himself superior and all knowing.
Linus shows just how much genius he is here, in so many ways. “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” T9 dialling is something I never consciously realised, it's amazing and a great example.
I hope that quote isn't from this clip because that would just be icing on the cake when he already shows that he doesn't respect the intelligence of their viewers, as he claims he's unbiased while doing sh*t like making a video with a title "I hate giving Apple my money". What purpose does that title serve (the title of the video that that comment came from, by the way) other than ignite the fire of hatred in the brains of Apple haters (people who will hate on something (not just Apple) without ever analyzing both the merits and the faults)? As Lex Fridman says, "can you feel the hate in the world that comes to the surface when you say something like that"? And how can you judge a comment filled with hatred towards one thing or the other (doesn't matter, and I'm not saying anything about whether that person is right or not) with a straight face if part of the cause if not the root cause of the reason why they felt the need to comment that opinion of theirs is you?
@@RichardServelloAre you daft? It's objectively better to have it as an OPTION. They literally said it like 9 times in this exact clip. It's objectively better to have because it has ZERO interference with touch typing or whatever other method you might prefer to use to input the same thing, but there's no reason not to have it as a tertiary option.
As a UX designer, I always love to hear you recommendations (and complaints) about any product, ‘cause I agree with you! Or I’m like “riiiight: I haven’t noticed that before”. “Change Management” became a paid profession because we humans don’t like changing what we do or believe, so, yeah: people will complain about you going contrary to their beliefs.
Fellow UX designer hear. Yes this is the unfortunate effect Apple has made to UX as the commonality of their software has created a false sense of usability to an unfortunate amount of users.
The brain favors the known over the unknown, what is known is familiar and safe, what is unknown is unfamiliar and unsafe. Sometimes people need a push, though.
I’m an iPhone user and I hate the back mechanic. I’m used to it, but I hate it. As with many things in iOS, I like that people talk and rant about those things because I’d love them to be made better by apple. I think your objectivity lens is pretty much on point most of the time. You shouldn’t pay attention to haters and hurt fanboys. But then again, it’s a good thing that you review yourself from time to time (:
Btw I call by opening spotlight, typing the first two letters of a contact shows it with a phone button next to it. So it’s about 3 or 4 taps for any contact.
Agreed i have an ipad and I spend more time going back on a ipad or iphone than when i do it on my android. Its one of the reasons why i struggle switching to an iphone
Yep same. I love my iphone and macbook but there are some really dumb choices that apple makes. The back button is one of them. For a long time not letting you choose different default email apps etc on Iphone was one. Still aggravated it wont let me change my default maps app.
If I remember this correctly, one thing I loved the concept of with Windows Phone was there was a website where users could suggest improvements and new features. The community could also then vote for these suggestions, thereby encouraging innovation, community spirit and hence loyalty, plus the ability to easily guage the popularity of new ideas. I'm not aware of anything like that with Android and we know Apple consider themselves to good for that lol
That sounds great in theory, but they also have to actually use the feedback. Spotify also has a user forum where you can submit ideas and vote for them. Yet it seems like they ignore most of it, and even if they implement an idea, it can take years.
Sounds good in theory. But what happened is popular stuff will get added yet not be liked when it actually get added. "Oh cool phone has projector" "Oh... Projectors need a lot of power..."
@@DraakjeYoblama The difference is Windows actually implements the feedback. Spotify throws it in the garbage unless it gets to certain upvotes in a certain amount of days, and then if they don't feel like adding it, which is probably why the suggestion it's not a thing already (e.g. queue next), then they throw it out as well.
You might lose some people because your views are different compared to theirs. But, you'll gain and retain so much more people around by being honest and open, speaking your mind. The sole reason I'm following every video you guys put up, because you guys give us insights, your opinions and you always manage to give a fair review whilst providing your opinions. Also remember, people who are happy with what you are providing might not be loud, because they "don't need to argue". But if someone is on the opposite side, they'll make sure to let you know you are "wrong", especially on the age of internet. So, as a long time viewer, you are doing the right thing. This kind of stuff is why people are watching you. Please don't change things because of a vocal minority.
Also, Apple - probably. Not hating, just saying. It applies to them as well because many people that use their stuff (me included) don’t always use or even know about the new stuff - they like it cuz it’s simple and it just works (most/some of the time). Then when they finally add the new thing, people complain because either something changed/is different, is hard to find (buried deep in the settings, doesn’t work right cuz there’s too many new features to keep up with on the Dev side, etc. Honestly, it would be cool for Apple to take the Linux approach and you could have different flavors of iOS. One that’s simple, looks good, and does everything the majority of people need; one with a little bit more personalization, features, technical things that people could do basically like a jailbreak but more ‘Apple’. Not trying to make excuses for Apple, but I can definitely see where it starts getting difficult for companies to appeal to everyone which can and is good because not everyone has the same ideas and it also creates competition.
To be fair if you lose people who don’t stick around because an opinion is different they aren’t the people you really want around. People who can have different opinions, understand that you have a different opinion and stay civil and friendly are the best people to have around! … right? 😅
I don’t get why you are selling this as a positive. “People who agree with you will stay” is how echo chambers are created. If Linus made a video where he just daily drove around on a Ryzen CPU and said “This CPU is objectively better”, we would call BS, but we accept it gladly when he does the same when it comes to UI design.
I think that it isn’t always possible to make people understand your perspective without going into full detail with literally everything you say, which would make speech (and more specifically reviews) impractical. You are doing a great job of explaining what you think and why you think it and if people want to take it the wrong way there is not much you can do about it. Just keep making great content!
Agreed. There's not enough time nor viewer patience nor the need to go into that much detail about every opinion. We as viewers should be able to understand that people are going to have preferences and when they make general claims in a review video, those claims reflect their own opinions. That shouldn't need to be explained. Our job as viewers is to find reviewers whose tastes match ours so we can make informed decisions about products.
A couple things we cannot know firstly with any international company is there some obscure copyright law that prevents certain actions. Secondly products have to stand out in some ways artistically. How each company chooses to stand out is not always the “objectively better“ As an example I think I remember someone saying, Teslas auto pilot at first was flawed adjusting to speed signs because somebody else had patented using cameras to adjust cruise control that was never actually implemented but patented.
People probably have a problem with the certainty built into the proclemation of the words "objectively better." Alot of people spend there life qualifying themselves and have a problem when others are certain about what they think. Keep up the great work Linus. Love you guys.
Don't let it go! Your absolute willingness to share your opinions is what makes you special. It's because you back your options with experience, decades of industry knowledge, and maturity that makes LTT great. You're willing to consider other opinions and change your own (as evidenced by this video), and that's honestly all you need at the end of the day
>Your absolute willingness to share your opinions is what makes you special. Yeah, because the world isn't full of people willing to share their opinions. Nothing wrong with fanboying but that's just dumb.
Linus is intelligent, BUT yes, the way he presents his opinions/tastes as objective facts has annoyed me for a long time and put me off the content and made me stay away from LTT a lot. Because it often comes from a view where Linus is used to some way of doing things, and lacks the insight into alternative ways of doing things, and just proclaims something bad based on that sheltered view. It really rubs me the wrong way. Linus is smart and there is definitely value in his reviews, but really wish he would open his mind more and try to adapt to new systems, and modt importantly try not to present everything as "his way or the highway".
I'd rather Linus be a confident voice in the space and get called out and eat humble pie when he's wrong, over him being unwilling to do things like write scathing reviews of Intel. I agree with what other ppl have said however: he tends to establish himself as an authority on things that sometimes he knows jack shit about, but I think we can agree that's the exception not the norm. ^That's when the legion of viewers scrutinising his every move comes into place and holds him in check lmao In an industry dominated by shitty journalism and capitalist giants that reaaaally want to silence any criticism of their products, having someone with a loud voice is crucial, even if that voice is a bit obnoxious at times
I have been an iPhone user since it first launched and have never used Android or other mobile OSs, so have never heard of T9 dialling until this video. I now want it as I can see how useful that would be!!! I think that you should always advocate for the best for users in all instances and I always find your reviews a fair reflection of the state of things. Keep it up 😁
@@oricardopestana as an android turned ios user, I still didn't know that T9 dialing was, i even googled it and didn't understand. your comment made it clear tho, that sounds like a useful feature.
I'm a long haul transporter, I use my cruise control 98% of my driving unless I'm coming up to a turn. Those few seconds you save processing that you need to brake will save someone's life. Good on you Linus
I agree but I think the problem people are concerned with is there will be people who use the cruise control systems so they can look at their phone or take their focus away from driving. It's good for people who are responsible but the fact is that most people are idiots and not responsible.
@@jamess.2491 completly agree Once again the cruise control (CC) feature is something that a lot of people will fight over because unlike you, most people don't look at cruise control like that, they look at it as a form of being able to relax a bit and that's something you don't want in a school zone or in wtv places you might need it under 50km/h. Besides that (and this might be a european problem) we use a lot of manual gear cars (idk if that's the correct term) and when you try to set up cruise control and you have to deal with a manual transmission things can get complicated and people will most definitely get caught up in "all these things". I think this might be just an industry standard, but even though I understand your point of having cruise control under 50km/h, it makes a lot of sense, I don't think it applies to all of the people and the relaxation most people are looking for in CC is not meant to be used in a school zone. Manufacturers have to think in most of the worst-case scenarios and if you think of a normal distribution you have more or less 50% of people below the average IQ (not a good way of measuring it but it's just to make a point) level, if you consider the bottom 5%, most have a drivers license and if 1% of them are those people who look at cruise control as a form of relaxation while driving and cause accidents, those are too many accidents, even tho it might help other people. The thing is that this might help you and most people, but if it affects negatively some they won't implement it because the risk of children getting injured or killed is never worth the risk and for those like you that want to use it in a good way, you can keep doing the same you're doing already
@@tiagoqueiros2860 Yeah I think the problem is that people like Linus and others are looking at it from the perspective of, "How would I use this?" rather than what the manufacturers have to take into account which is, "What is the worst that could happen?". I think in a tech-driven community like this one where most people are (probably) above average intelligence it's easy to forget that we're the minority in the world, and in business you have to cater towards the majority. It reminds me of a quote from the great George Carlin, "think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider [more stupid] than that".
@@jamess.2491 I honestly think the biggest difference is how people perceive the situation he was describing. My first thought was that I wouldn't use cruise control to go past like a kindergarten or school for small kids either when I thought about it, but then I realized that's just because of how it looks over here. So I think it really depends on what kind of road / school you have. If you have a big road in urban area and on top of that you're living in a country where driving kids to school is the norm it's something different than if you're living somewhere in the boonies with super small roads winding in different directions and you know there's kids around there because they all walk to school (or walk back home) and play in that area after school. I grew up next to a kindergarten, so basicly seeing kids getting there and leaving every day. So sure, speedlimit may be 30 but if I know it's that time of the day I'll be going through there with 10 if even that because I know there's kids playing on the street, or just running after their friends/siblings/moms&dads and especially with them being small who knows when they jump out on the street to catch a ball and whatnot. So it's more like... I'll approach with 30, then slow down to 10 because sure speed limit might be 30 but can't do that right now, and then speed up back to 30 afterwards. Which you can do with CruiseControl as well but at that point you might as well just do it without. If on the other hand it's a straight road that just goes past a school, but there's no kids around I'll just drive speedlimit as well and cruise control is super normal. People just get those... very specific situations in their mind because that might be the normal situation for them and it just sounds normal to them. Until they realize other countries do streets different, or do schools different, or maybe even just other cities do schools different then where you're from etc.
I use cruise control constantly. I have adaptive cruise, so using it in-town is a lot more feasible for me, but it is so nice to be able to place my full attention on the road without needing to concern myself about what speed I'm traveling. It makes me a better driver when I'm not the one regulating my speed and needing to keep looking down at the dash to ensure that I'm not speeding.
It was so weird for me getting back to a back button as an IOS user. I get what Linus was saying because when I started using Android DAP’s I immediately realized how much I missed the back button. There was times I would forget to use it, but not one second where it didn’t immediately strike me as a more intuitive UI element.
@@Dingusdoofus Android has had swipe gestures as the main form of ui for years now, though the important thing is that android gives one the option to choose between the gesture or the button.
You don't need to have a back button, the back swipe gesture from both sides of the screen works as a back button. So you use full gesture controls with an intuitive back gesture.
I agree 100% with the CC in a school zone. It always frustrates me when I can’t engage it when driving slowly. There are many situations where I would rather have my foot on the brake (school zone, bad weather etc) then on the gas to be a fraction of a second better prepared
Exactly! I use Autopilot pretty much everywhere, especially school zones if the road markings are good. If not, I will at the very least use CC so I can keep my attention on the road and my foot ready on the brake. It's mind blowong how many are thinking that is more dangerous than hsving my foot on the throttle and focus on the speedometer
Added point - I do NOT trust autopilot and will never take my focus of the road when using it. There seems to be a prejudice that drivers who engage CC or Autopilot get spontaneously blind or narcoleptic, and that's just not true.
About the cruise control, i think the comment is more about how many people are easily distracted while driving and they would pay even less attention if the car required even less input, your point of view is completely valid because you as a responsible person would absolutely be paying attention and it would actually be beneficial, but people rarely are willing to extend that courtesy to strangers In exaggerating terms is like the people that stop paying complete attention with semi autonomous driving system when in reality they should be an additional aid Also as you talk, yeah i think a lot of people have no idea what cruise control is based on your chat hahaha some weird takes there
Indeed. Cruise control just takes one action of your car off your thought process, allowing you to focus on other actions. For many, especially on low traffic highways, this is to play with the radio, talk to others, etc. In a school zone, as linus describes, this can be to pay EVEN MORE attention to your surroundings and be readily able to tap the beak even faster, which is extremely important if a kid chases a ball right in front of you, where a milisecond faster respond time is the different between not seriously hurting a kid, or hiting them square enough they could fall over and crack their head on the pavement. what you CHOOSE to do in a cruise control situation is up to you. And It's very hard for many to imagine taking advantage of cruise control to be a significantly more defensive driver, since that's not what they do when using cruise. Also, a car letting you do cruise control at any speed doesn't mean you have to use it. You don't even wnat to contemplate school zones - don't. But if others are like Linus and more alert, why would they want that to change? Aren't options... good? Hell, even on busy highways these days, I find myself using cruise a lot because my car has dectections all around it that will auto brake as traffic slows down. However, some may see that tool as a way to pay less attention and thus, maybe be more prone to other traffic mistakes. Me, I look at it in two lights. One, my foot is always over the brake my entire drive incase of stupid situations, often involving motorcycles, and then two, the typical flow of traffic slowing and speeding up is taken care of so I can pay more attention to whats going on everywhere, while still be aware enough that if my car isn't slowing when it should, my foot is already on the brake.
They assume that once you turn it on you don't disengage when you see ify situation. They don't understand that you can simply tap the brake pedal when you drive near a car parked on the street to slow down if some kid would have run out. This is, as Linus said - just a bad driver, not a cruise control problem...
Aditionnally, where i live cruise control cannot be set up below 50km/h, and that is because in a city, setting up cruise control takes away attention for a few seconds and if you need to be resetting it every intersection, it is WAY more dangerous than just using your gas pedal.
I haven't ever owned and used an Android but the universal back and menu buttons always made a lot of sense to me and seemed like a fantastic idea. Gestures are nice too but sometimes I have apps that want to use swipe gestures for other things that make just as much sense like sliding out a side panel.
You can configure Android buttons to swipe too, you can make them dissapear and swipe from the bottom or from which ever side or just transluscent buttons. Can be configure in any way you want. Ios gestures though are fixed.
Yeah. I was trying out the gesture mode in Android, but the swipe for Back would conflict with some apps that use swipe from side for other purposes... that and it's a little unreliable on curve-edge phones like high end late model Samsungs. So I went back to buttons.
@@FerralVideo I think it's great that Android provides the option between gesture and 3-button navigation. I tried my best to get used to gesture navigation, but there were those times when scrolling down would get misinterpreted as back. It didn't happen all the time, but it happened enough times that I went back to the 3-button navigation. And I think that having the choice allows people to try out each method and choose for themselves which one they like the best, gesture or 3-button. And the top-left corner button doesn't always mean back, so you can't always rely on it being the back button. *looks at VLC for Android*
I don't call people often, but when I do, it'll be over T9 dialing from now on. You've opened my eyes to an incredible technology I wish I'd known back in the days of phones without touchscreens.
Speed limiter where it limits your speed to a maximum but gives you full throttle control under that speed is a great option but a lot of cars don't offer it (yet have adaptive cruise control), also great in roadworks speed limited zone, as Linus says, it's allows you to concentrate on your surroundings and not your speed. Objectively better! Keep going Linus, you're allowed your views, and I appreciate they are often very well considered.
Cars are already equipped with a hard-line limit to speed. All cars are technically capable of going faster than what the speedometer states. However, manufacturers (particularly for the US market) are frequently required to install a "Governor" that prevents the engine from outputting all of what the engine could actually do. They did try to require a lower artificial maximum output, but there apparently was too much pushback on that. 🤔
It also gives a false sense of security. So while you might be a responsible driver that would better concentrate on the surroundings, a lot of people would feel that with the speed set they can now mess around on their phone. So on average it could cause more accidents.
Do you have an example of a car with adaptive cruise control and at the same time lacking a speed limiter? Never seen one. I do agree on the fact that using the speed limiter in a school zone might actually be better, for two reasons. 1. You can reduce speed just slightly if you for example come up behind another vehicle and need to pass it while it stops to the side. If one hits 0 on the cruise control the car tends to jerk while it disengages. 2. When you want to get back to the previous speed by hitting reset on the cruise control it usually accelerates faster than what feels reasonable in the specific area.
I get this SO MUCH, Linus. At my job and in life pretty much every day, I deal with people getting SUPER mad at me for saying something, when they don't clearly understand what I said. Nowadays we live in an era where people will actively look for excuses to go into conflict. It's understandable because a lot of issues have been ignored and people have been suffering in silence for so long. And we all know, the more ignorant one is, the more belligerent one will be towards matters one does not completely understand. Hugs from the UK, Linus. Stay on the path.
I've seen plenty of people have the same stance on options in other areas as well. One good example is the issue with companies removing 3.5mm outputs on their devices. You have one side that prefers wired headphones and wants them to stay, and the people that wants them to go away because they prefer Bluetooth. The problem is that group 1 doesn't want to take Bluetooth away from group 2, they just want their preference to stay as an option, but group 2 doesn't extend that same courtesy to group 1. Broadly speaking, of course, I know there are exceptions within each group, I'm just saying what I've personally seen.
T9. Completly agree. Custom app layout, again goes back to the right handed use. I fill out the upper left corner with junk just so i have my useful apps on my lower right.. for a trillion dollar company, it feels like they hold a lot of progress back. At this point i was hoping for a little bit of utopic functionality like in the Her movie lol
as a previously Android user and currently iOS user for several years, I truly have not even noticed that T9 was missing, but now I'm kinda bummed out that it is.
Don't drop your opinions out of your reviews. As long as you have some logic to back it up like you have with T9, then your opinion is the reason we watch your review and not someone else.
The problem is that many people have lost the ability to actually listen and learn instead of just reacting with anger when someone thinks something they don't. For now I think the only thing to do is to say what you think and keep arguing logically for what you say.
The back button thing is one of those old Steve Jobs practices that are slowly dying off on the iPhone…. In his original vision, the phone screen was so small, and the software so well integrated, you wouldn’t notice the lack of a back button. I don’t know why Apple clings onto things like this
I personally have never considered using cruise control as a way to stop sooner, and usually only use it when I need to go a consistent and annoying speed for a long time, like on a long trip on a highway. I have used it for slower speeds because it was kind of excruciatingly slow… like one time. Coming from that perspective, it’s hard to imagine that it would be faster and it was probably like a really quick angry reflex of “cruise control is for FAST” -> “you want to use FAST thing in SCHOOL ZONE???” -> “Linus is a MONSTER” without enough time for people to consider why it might be safer at all. I think very few people use cruise control that way. But maybe I am wrong.
I cannot believe that top comment is against cruise control in school zones. Not having to modulate your speed at an unusually low velocity is just one less thing to think about. Adding the fact that you need to stare at your speedometer every 7 seconds in a school zone is not helpful. You guys are stupid I'm sorry no I'm not you're stupid
Using cruise gives you less variability with your speed which isn’t ideal. You are more likely to need to brake causing those following to potentially misinterpret your break lights and emergency break. If you can’t maintain a speed to within a few MPH/KPH without constantly monitoring your speedo I question if you should have a license. Cover the break with your left foot, even if you drive a manual covering with your left is fine in an emergency situation who cares about stalling the car. Does this mean manufactures shouldn’t allow it to be set below a certain speed, idk maybe maybe not but using it in a school zone probably isn’t ideal, not really that big of a deal but it isn’t the best way to drive in that situation.
I use cruise control all the time. I live in Edmonton. The streets are all straight as hell, filled with idiot drivers, and there are speed cameras at damn near every second intersection. When I drove my 2001 Sportage? The lack of power, the feedback of a physical cable/linkage,and the thin sound deadening made it really easy to stay at a constant speed. I could feel the shifting of the pedal more, and I could hear the engine working harder, or less, easily. I now have a 2016 GMC Sierra with the base engine V6. Even with a small camper on the back, has drastically more power than my old Kia, and it is drive by wire. The throttle has so little resistance, and there is no feedback at all to let the driver know their foot has shifted that tiny bit, giving a bit more gas, or taking it out. The cab is also vastly more isolated from road and engine noise than my old Kia, if my engine speeds up 100-200 rpm? I can't really tell, like I used to. I would often find myself getting up to 70~ or so kph completely unintentionally, or dropping down to 50. Using cruise just makes me a far more consistent, predictable, and safe driver on the road. I spend less time managing my speed, and more paying attention to the absolute imbeciles who seem to have a personal vendetta against everyone around them.
@@FinishHim90 you never use your left foot to brake with a standard transmission. If you stall you will loose control of your car as the wheels will lock up. When braking you always take your right foot off the accelerator and use it to press the brake. You left foot is always for the clutch. Your car should never stall, even in an emergency.
I had to look up what t9 dialing was only to find out it’s something I’ve always been using. Also in Australia our cruise control can be set at 40km/h and that our school zone speed, I use it for the exact same reason that Linus said. Set the speed and then my foot is on the break and I’m watching for munchikins to randomly dart onto the road as they like to do
So, just FYI. The back button issue. Has been caused by a design change in the phone. So on the older models of iPhone, the screen was smaller 3:2 aspect ratio. at 3.5inch and probably with a lower resolution, it was much easier to press back that way one handed. Since then, they stretched it out to 16:9 aspect ratio (better move) but caused the back button to be higher for the user thumb. They pushed a kinda 'hotfix' by enabling you to double tap home to move the content down (which I use a lot, but it's not great). And they also kinda tried to rectified this by adding a swipe left in their apps and some UI views, but some are up to the developer to implement for swiping. I think it's a design problem they got their users used to that method on the old iOS, then they made the phones bigger and now it's not a great choice. I'd rather have the back button bottom left and use the phone better one handed. But all the UIKit toolbox components has been designed around this back button top left/info button top right, and group tab menu bar at the bottom. It's kinda hard to change all apps to do this. Maybe in the next UI redesign? but probably not...
iOS Dev here. The back gesture (interactive pop gesture) only works we you have a lateral navigation of views, example: in Settings when you tap General or WiFi. You will notice in these cases that a top left back button will appear, this is the only case where you can swipe to go back. There is other way to present screens/views which is called "modal presentation", which now iOS usually presents them like stacked cards on top of the current view; in this case the view will not have a native back button and hence it will not be possible to do a back gesture. Back gestures on Android (12 and above?) is a system wide thing, this is not and has never been the case on iOS.
Swipe for back not being integrated into IOS is exactly what they're complaining about... Oneplus has had this feature since their first phone which came out nine years ago and that was Android 4
Your speedometer comment is very valid and I appreciate that someone else understands how Speedo’s are actually a (slight?) danger or nuisance in some cases. I ride a motorcycle and don’t have a car, and once last year my Speedo cable broke - so I couldn’t see my speed for about two weeks while waiting for a replacement. I IMMEDIATELY noticed a massive increase in road awareness on my end. I’ve seen things I’ve never seen on my commute. This is not to say I ride glued to the speedo. But between checking road hazards, speed limits, speed traps, and both mirrors constantly, removing even one factor actually made a sizeable difference. This is especially true for school zone. Honestly I don’t know if I was under or over the limit when I didn’t have the speedo (I always just drove at the speed that felt natural and would allow me to emergency stop in a reasonable distance), but I felt MUCH more in control of the situation when I never had a logical reason to look down. I’m not necessarily advocating to not have a speedo as most people are far too irresponsible to be given that much freedom (I’m not perfect either, I probably sped too), but my point is removing distractions when riding or driving is very helpful to anyone who’s trying to pay attention. I feel being aware and going fast is still safer than going slower and texting… Another classic example is road tests. You know, where they ding you if you don’t have your head on a swivel, so as a result you spend more time looking everywhere BUT in front of you due to the grading criteria. I’ve never felt more unsafe than when I was doing my M exam and having to pay attention to things that didn’t require my immediate attention, purely because a grading sheet said I have to be looking at every driveway and intersection, along with my mirrors every 5-7 seconds. Cruise control in a school zone makes total sense to me, IF used correctly by the driver 👍
@@martinpata2899 for sure! Has to be just involved enough for people to pay attention - I guess Tesla autopilot kind of showed us what happens when you make things too simple for the user.
I switched to iOS back in 2019 from a decade of android use. The lack of a consistent way to navigate back is still the biggest glaring issue. It’s easy to get used to it but it doesn’t make it any less baffling and un-intuitive. I’m sure they could easily make a gesture to fix this, but even with all the cool accessibility options in iOS, like binding an action to a double tap on the back glass, there’s still no universal way to go back. Lack of T9 dialing isn’t a big deal for me, but it should be a standard feature on all phones. Aside from those glaring issues though, I vastly prefer iOS over Android still.
What exactly do you and Linus mean with navigate back? Doesn’t swiping left to right on the bottom of the screen do exactly that? Or am I missing something?
@@NBAU92 That’s for going back to previously opened apps, not going back in the same app. Sometimes to go back in an app you swipe from the left of the screen, other times that doesn’t work and you have to tap the top left corner. Very inconsistent, it’s the most unintuitive aspect of iOS.
It is just apple being stubborn. It is so annoying as i use bot ios and android device. Analogous to it is lack of touch id on the phones or tabs or them sticking with lightining after so long
I switched in 2019 as well. And I am switching back after having had enough software issues on the ios. Downloading/saving videos from the browser, the browsing experience in general,, sharing media is a joke(looking at you discord), no back button, calling people is a pain, quick settings are annoying to use, can't access settings as easily as I was used to, can't customize notification alerts for contacts properly (boils my blood to this day), requiring so much extra hoops just to get a custom ringtone (or pay for a shitty version of what they might have in store), minimizing the keyboard, closing a video on youtube and the phone straight up refusing to let me browse on any browser if I don't update the phone while signed on for beta updates. Oh, having only face id is just pain. Nothing short of it. Just pain. I don't get how this is faster, back on my Xperia 1, my phone was unlocked by the time I took it out of my pocket. Here, I have to show my face, then swipe to unlock. The iPhone is good, but ONLY if you look at it in one specific way. /rant
@@rg975 ahhh no I get it! Is this inconsistency happening in apples own apps, too? If it’s not possible in 3rd Party apps - than blame the app creator for not implementing native gestures. I never really had this problem that swiping from the left edge didn’t work - that’s why I’m wondering.
I gotta say that I've never thought of that use for cruise control, and I think it's awesome! I wish my car allowed me to engage cruise control at low speeds... I find it baffling that people are not understanding the use case that Linus is proposing and are failing to grasp why it would be useful.
You're right, I don't understand the use case because if I'm driving at a low speed it's never a situation where I'm going to be at a constant one. High speeds on highways, no exits for miles, you set yourself to traffic and are done with it. In the city there's constant stop signs, traffic lights, people coming out of side roads or driveways, pedestrians, bikes, and a School Zone is going to be very high-traffic in that respect. I'm never basing what I'm doing on the posted speed limit, I'm basing it on what's going on around me. In those situations "slow down unless I keep my foot on the gas" feels more desirable than "stay at speed unless I put my foot on the brake".
@@adamsbja if your speed is always changing when in a 30kph area then you will be going too fast quite often, pray there are no speed traps around those school zones bud. meanwhile those that are worried about the speed trap in the 30 kph zone are often taking there eyes off the road to check the speedometer and are now more likely to hit some kid, even though they are going slow. it would be awesome if the car slowed down automatically when entering a school zone, being able to set it manually is the next best thing. now i'm not in the city, our school zones go for half a click or more, no stop signs, no traffic, 90% of the cars blow through them at 50 kph or higher, cops sit at them all the time and give out tickets, it's a 30 zone (some are 20), 18~ kids hit in the last 10 years or so, some died. i can see your point in the city, but out in our 90,000 pop rural community some of the school zones are on main 4 lane roads and look a lot like other peoples freeways.
@@beverlywhitman303 what is a speed trap? If it is what i think it is, shouldn't there be a sign? Idk about outside of EU, but here we are legally obligated to put a sign (i can't remember if 100 or 150m) before the speed check happens. So if you are paying attention you know when one is coming and you just slow down, who cares if you go at 20 not 30... I refuse to believe that people don't notice if they go from 25 to 31 without looking at their speed neither. That i would consider bad driving and caring to go at the speed limit is even worse to me. If i'm in a situation where i'm unsure, the speed limit shouldn't even matter, i drive based on what's going on around me. Also their example is terrible driving, braking enough to come to a full stop out of nowhere because "something moved" behind a car is plain stupid, that could cause an incident for no reason. You are supposed to slow down, maybe keep going at 15/20kmh then if you are getting close and still are unsure about what's happening you can brake completely, you don't wait to be close enough to have to brake to a full stop. Idk how cruise control would handle that. If i brake a bit and go from 30 to 20 and let go of the brake will it try to go back to 30 immediately or just turn off? If it turns off as soon as you brake then sure i can see it working, if it tries to go back to 30 it's fucking stupid
@@ForeverHobbit a speed trap is when a cop pulls into someones drive way out of sight, usually at the bottom of a hill or in a school zone, and waits for someone to pass by going 2-3 kph over the limit. we also often have cameras (with no signage) that will get you with out warring. in fact the town beside me has one (or had one) in a school zone where the limit is 50 kph followed by a crosswalk sign, then a parking sign and finally the school zone sign where the 30 kph is in small print. all with in 10m of each other. if you look up wile your driving, at one point, all 4 signs are in view and you'd think 50 was the posted limit, and you may miss the school zone sign small print, there is no other indication of the start or end of the school zone on those 4 lanes. (6 lanes counting the side parking and father down buss lane) the township made tons of money off it. as people even seeing the school zone sign had no idea when they can speed up again and get caught going 2 or 3 kph over half way though it, thinking they passed it. to this day it is still very poorly marked.
@beverlywhitman303 ngl canada has some weird rules for this. Speed traps in the US are cops just waiting. Usually, we say we got pulled over for speeding. As well as going 5 is like an accepted practice as in you won't get pulled over, obviously school zones are taken more seriously. On my car, the cruise control has to be reset every time i hit the brake, which is fine, but if i was to use it in the city, it seems like a hassle, but i might try it.
On iOS, in my own contact card, I’ve added “related name” fields for people like “spouse”, “mother”, ‘father“, etc. I can then ask Siri to “call my wife”, or “call Mum”, and it knows who I’m taking about. I then have their real names in their contact cards, rather than putting values like “Mum” and “Dad”. It also seems to be smart enough to know that if I say “call [wife’s first name]”, it assumes I’ll talking about her, rather than other contacts who have the same first name.
You did good. you give your opinion(at least I call them opinions for now, but some things are facts). which is based on the information you have from your years of experience(
Not an attack or correction but something you might find value in. You can split things up into 3 main groups. Opinions Value Claims Facts Opinions are always correct because they represent a preference. ---I don't like pineapple on pizza A value claim is an implicit argument that a thing should/shouldn't be valued. ---Pineapple on pizza is bad Facts are independently observable things but contain no conclusions are action items. ---There is pineapple on that piazza Value claims must be supported with reason and evidence based arguments or there is no reaso to agree with the claim. After all claims have the burden of proof. If someone has demonstrated the logic and provided the evidence and a person continues to disagree then they are in the wrong. As such if something is linuses preference that can never be wrong. However if Linus claims there is a better way they have to defend that claim and prove they are correct. I think Linues is not horrible but not great at this. Not by choice but by the limits of the medium thru which we interact. On the same note decenters should be charitable and understand the limitation and thus bring up specific articulable reasons that they think a specific claim is unconvincing. That way linus can directly address that point and give the arguments as to why his claim is correct.
As a tech review channel it is important to provide a detailed in depth interpretation of the product. If a bunch of people complain and misunderstand then it starts a conversation that helps people grow and push products to a new level (hopefully)
I worked at a particular fruit store and then at Big G. I have helped countless customers on both sides of the camp and have seen the best and worst of these user experiences. The first company thinks you don't know what you're doing and designs accordingly. The latter company assumes you know what you're doing and designs accordingly. As a general rule of thumb, I feel that's why many people get angry at Apple products while others love them. Some people want more control, and some don't. But I think there's no reason to get worked up about it. It's just personal preference or needs. We're all going to be okay.
That would be fine if all other things were equal between iOS and Android. The problem is that things aren't equal since both sides, although one definitely more than the other, try to limit compatibility between the two ecosystems (with RCS support being a great recent example). That compatibility break makes it so that groups (like families) tend to one ecosystem or the other rather than being decided on an individual basis, which leads to some members of that group being dissatisfied with certain features or the lack there of. The situation is a lot more complicated than this one reason, but that doesn't change the fact that this lack of compatibility was a deliberate choice for both companies that does cause friction among their user bases.
yeah but the fruit company charges you a shit ton of money while trying to squeeze out your wallet by making their stupid accesories mandatory for your device.
@@ishitrealbad3039 You could also argue google sells and uses our data to push ads in front of us that increase the likelihood of us making a purchase of something we don't need thus indirectly squeezing our wallets. Both are driven by profits or they wouldn't exist and there's no way companies of that size would exist. Apple's main source of revenue has always been hardware and eventually transactions via apps (which google does as well) where as google has always been about collecting user data and using that to make mula. You don't get to that size of a tech company with an ethos solely of "we'll do whatever the best is for our consumers". It's easier to bash apple over their monopoly because ppl can physically experience the stupidity of it it in the real world. Your average joe wont understand or see how google uses your data to generate thier profits.
Android devices usually just work and when they don't then you can typically find a work-around to make them work for your needs. Most commonly, this is for launchers where people hate the aesthetic or a lack of certain functions in their launcher. Android will let you change that out. Apple, however, will not. So when things don't work the way that you need them to, there is no recourse. I would rather use the one that has certain expectations that I am competent so it'll let me fix things rather than the one that assumes I'm woefully incompetent and have to wait for daddy Apple to fix it for me.
@@rrcoaster367 The RCS issue is only a problem in America, nobody else uses texting. They're all using various messaging services that thinks of the EU are going to be forced to be interoperable. I think they could manage that by using a matrix bridge to maintain end-to-end encryption between different services.
Keep doing what you're doing. No video will explain things perfectly. There will always be people who misinterpret what you say. People don't naturally listen to understand. But I could be wrong. There might be a better way.
It’s weird for me think or hear about some of these features because I don’t use them. I am in my early 20’s and I barely use voice command’s nor do I drive so I can understand the confusion until you explained it. But I do agree that with these things I was unware they weren’t in the iOS and such. And I also agree with luke there will be people who don’t understand until you explained it but you can’t spend all day teaching fundamental things to people who can’t understand it after an in-depth explations to people
The thing with the iOS back navigation is a bit unfortunate. Back on the small phones (4S and earlier), it wasn't so important because no matter where the back button was, you could always reach it with one hand. Then iPhones got bigger, but at that point it was too late because you could never get all apps to support a system-wide back button/gesture. It would have always remain a patchwork of apps that do and don't support it. (And, in my experience, the "back" gesture on Android also has a tendency to fall apart when you start having links between apps.)
It's not about how big the phone is ultimately. It's that it isn't great having different backs in different places. Android has a dedicated back button, which is essential. In terms of falling apart between apps, it is very predictable what it does in that regard and is not a problem. That is the same as Apple. If a link takes you to another app, use use the button to switch back to the last app, not swiping back. In the same way on Android, if you click a link to the other app, the back button will go back to the previous page in the app it switched to if it had been open already. If not it will go back to the previous app, or you use recent apps to get to the last app.
About the handedness issue... it sucks on all devices being left handed sometimes. Thing is all brands could address a lot of it as many times it's a software issue. Button placement is obviously fixed, but ambidextrous control options would be a welcome addition.
When he mentioned the left hand / right stuff, it made me think about how I hold it. I wonder what the actual numbers are for primary hand holding. I hold it in my left and use my right to browse ever since the phones started getting really big.
The lack of universal back is my BIGGEST gripe about switching to iOS. Android swipe back gesture on the right side of the phone is so much better. Ergonomically and objectively makes so much more sense.
T9? I want an entire slide out keyboard, I'd be able to type so much more quickly. Apple should have a back button, I'm surprised they are missing such a basic feature.
Any Android phone can be configure with a swipe from any direction as long as you are hitting the bottom part of the screen, and can be configure to either home, recent apps or back
Can someone clarify since I've only used android phones. With android gestures swiping from either edge acts as a back button. this is not the case for iOS?
@@htsunmiku sometimes it is the case, depends on the app generally, but most of the time there is a back button built into apps at the top left that linus mentioned
@@htsunmiku only swiping from the left edge triggers the back gesture. And it’s not universal. Some apps can disable it and you can’t use it to go to the home screen from an app
At least on desktop, being able to mold your workflow to the way you work SHOULD be the way everything works. It's for this reason that I like the way Linux does things, that GNOME and KDE and other DEs give you a ton of control over how the desktop behaves is amazing! Both Windows and MacOS let you do SOME things but not others, I like some of those and not others. The desktop paradigm in general works, but innovation happens in these Linux DEs, that just isn't happening in the duopoly desktops. Otherwise, the phone paradigm isn't set yet, but personally, I vastly prefer the choices that Android gives, while iOS is far more "you work OUR WAY OR NO WAY!!!"
As a designer, and a teacher - I can tell you that Linus is wrong about the cruise control idea: The whole point of not allowing cruise control is not a mechanical/coverage issue, it’s a psychological one. When CC is engaged, often times, people’s minds tend to drift and not focus on the need for changing speeds/watching t out for pedestrians. Mentally, it FORCES you to pay more attention to the pedestrian/school zones. The concept of driving “the speed limit” in a school zone is also kind of a fallacy. The truth is, mentally, people usually drive much slower than the posted speeds, especially when there are kids around: instead of focusing on “what is my speed” (which is what Linus incorrectly thinks that people do when they are in a school zone) instead, they are aware of their surroundings, and paying more attention. That’s the whole point. In addition, not everyone (frankly) is as attentive at driving as Linus is saying he is. So many people would blow right through things if they had CC at lower speeds. It is objectively better from a mental and performance standpoint to NOT allow CC at lower speeds. I’m with Linus on a lot of things, but here, he is incorrect.
@@ShadowFalcon yup, but that's the point of good design: to sometimes protect people when they are not at their best/most attentive. (Trait 3: systematic risk management) Also, if we were going to take away the license for folks who are like this, it'd be over 80% of the population.
@@TheManoDestra I don't see an issue with taking away the driver's license of 80% of the population, because frankly, they need better driver training. EDIT: Or, failing that. Implement the same system for traffic offenses they have in Finland, and make it proportional to your income (or net worth or whatever).
@@ShadowFalcon a lot of people do need to become better drivers, but your rationale doesn't make any sense. Not allowing cruise control is literally a safety risk management design asset. I would argue (with that logic) that cruise control would be the thing that needs to be removed. It takes control away from you, put the control on the car, rather than the driver. Cruise control is making things easier for longer distances, without having to make lots and lots of different types of speed changes. It also does help fuel economy, so there's an asset. However, if the logic is that the Driver should have perfect control and focus 100% of the time, then cruise control is literally a liability, and shouldn't be on the car at all. (I don't fundamentally believe this, it's just following the logic to its final conclusion.) The truth is people are clumsy, accident, prone, and prone to mistakes. The whole point of disabling cruise control at low speeds is to help force people to focus more attention when they're driving slow speeds, potentially with fast changes that needs to happen, especially around school zones. There have been tons of studies on this, and plenty of safety testing that has gone into this as well, which is one of the reasons why the car manufacturer make it so you don't have cruise at low speeds. Linus is entitled to his opinion, but it is inherently subjective, regardless of the fact that he says it's objective. . It's not. All he has is his singular experience, versus all the testing and manufacturers designs tests that have gone into it. Also, I dare you to try and take 80% of peoples drivers licenses away. Hint: it won't go over well in the US or Canada.
@@TheManoDestra Cruise control, allows you to take focus away from your instrument cluster, thereby allowing you to focus completely on the traffic situation ahead. If people aren't focusing on the traffic situation ahead, then arguably, they should face the full consequences of the law.
After watching the video with the cruise control comment I added Linus' technique to my own driving. I feel a lot better driving in school (and other low speed zones for pedestrian/child safety) because I don't have to look at my dashboard. Props to Toyota cruise control for supporting speeds as low as 20 mph, at least in my 2001 Corolla.
For windows search there is thankfully a workaround to fix it, in group policy you enable "Do not allow web search". Though MS should definitely just put this in the settings and not hide it away like that.
The answer to Google and Windows choosing to go to the web before local contacts/files is simple. More traffic to their sites looks good for them, and always gives them a tiny bit more data about you to sell
I agree with the cruise control in school zones. It keeps your attention more on the school zone instead of speed. And a tip for Android: If you type it enough and then voice text though, it'll eventually learn. It doesn't take long but for some reason, you have to do the text first to have it add to the dictionary. Then voice text prioritizes. Then voice calling works.
Well the problem is that some cars have very reactive pedals, i can't decide if I want to drive 25 or 40 because low speeds are very sensitive and a little 10% press will send me to 60 in no time, I use cruise control for that., far safer.
@@XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD Or the opposite is a problem. At work I get to drive a lot of turbo-diesel vans that have pretty slow-responding engines, but do actually have ok power once the turbo spools. The issue I find is that any given throttle position has a range of power and response depending on how long you've held that throttle position, which means the speed tends to wander.
yea, i live in a area that had children just randomly charging in front of your car and stop you for fun, sometimes in the very late night, because they think is funny or something, I had to drive really slowly lol.
Hey Linus! As a writer, I personally try to look at the meaning of words very precisely so here’s my take on “objectiveness”. Something like, “USB 3.0 is objectively better than USB 2.0” is fine. You can actually measure something quantifiable in this instance: speed. But how do you determine if a process is “objectively better”? I believe people are perceiving you as being condescending when you say something like that is “objectively better” because it isn’t directly measurable. A UX researcher like myself could “measure” that in the sense of how many people in usability tests think it’s better, but even those methods aren’t perfect. The product team is made of fallible humans that might design a study wrong or not think up a particular design. One key principle of user-centered design is that the product team (or really anyone in the company) is not the user. We’re biased by our expertise even if we, too, use the products. Additionally, even if you are a user, you are one user that belongs to a particular user group. The reality of development is that not all possible user groups can be prioritized so companies will choose whichever ones impact their bottom line the most to satisfy. The point is, you do have logic and reasoning for why you think something is better. And you even have strong knowledge to back it up. But you should be careful about saying something is objectively better if it can’t be measured. Because that’s actually subjective.
On the cruise control issue, 40km/h has been the minimum speed for it in every car I’ve ever driven. That’s also the sped limit in school zones in my country. I have used it a couple of times in long school zones with little traffic around. But I don’t typically use cruise control in such low speed areas because there’s usually other traffic around and I would often have to cancel it to match the speed of the driver in front. It might be more practical in a car with adaptive cruise control and/or a lower minimum speed for using it.
Cruise control in the early days where not capable of low speed cruise. It was just as much a technical decision as a legal one. Pay attention to the road!!! Do not engage it at low speeds dangerous!! You have to do it yourself! Laughable today when people allow self driving at all. But it was very likely a real problem having the cruise system work at low speeds in the early days. And it was new tech and if the thing did something wrong it can do real harm at slow speeds slamming the gas at a school zone or whatever. At 80km/h it is just scary but very likely the driver hitting the brake disengage the cruise control that is not managing the gas as it should. I can totally see early cruise system being awful and right down dangerous and unable to keep a steady cruise speeds below 40km/h. And it might not be very obvious if cruise control has released or engaged at low speeds. It totally was a good call to limit it to 40km/h and over whatever for the early first adopters of cruise control. But that is not really a reason to not allow it today. Like today computers are probobly 3x as fast and reliable to manage gas regulation to maintain a speed limit or cruise speed. Like the human feet can not be as fast as the computer updating the gas pedal position thousands of times a second or something. But early days? It is like self driving cars a long way from something flawless. Today we got gas pedals that are controlling the computer and not directly the engine. But early cruise control the gas pedal was actually still directly connected to the engine and not a computer. The cruise control was a action on the gas pedal back then and so was worse then the human at controlling the gas. Now the driver is acting on the computer system that manages the engine gas. That is a huge shift in trust and capability of the electronics. Even 1997 cars where controlled by a gas wire going to the engine. Today there is almost no car where the gas pedal is not just a xbox/PS controller trigger more or less. Like this started to be the standard in cars around 2010! Give or take 5 years. Linus is not wrong. I can see myself speeding in a school zone without a cruise control. It is far better if I can tell the car to hold the gas for me as I probably will exceed the speed if no child is in view. And that is due to not looking at the speed meter but driving on feel and having my eyes on the road. Losing speed or looking down on the speed meter is not eco friendly or safe. And if we allow cars to self park let alone drive at all instead of the driver? Then a modern cruise system can be trusted to maintain 20km/h. And fun fact. On some brand of lorries/trucks designed to pull wagons and trailers (total weight 60.000kg+) the cruise control might not actually disengage if you hit the brake pedal! It dose stop but ones you let of the brake?? It starts to try and clime back to the cruise speed with a delay! So even now you HAVE FOR SURE hit the brake and slowed down before a round about the lorry starts to pick up the speed back up. IT IS SCARY! WHY IN THE ACTUAL *****. I literately slammed the brakes so hard experience this for the first time, just to get back control of the vehicle. In the roundabout I rode the brakes as this was not right and was quite upset. Total loss of trust to the machine I was maneuvering. The person I was taking over the route off where in the seat next to me explain that the cruise control had to be turned off to not pick back up after hitting the brake. It was normal for this brand of lorry. Like that is lazy driver design if cruise mode expects bake application to not be enough to turn itself off. (2014-2018 model lorry or whatever) I really REALLY do not trust self anything. Or Smart ANYTHING. It really is neater smart or self anything. It is just dangerous and asking for pointless problems.
I swapped back to an iphone just to be back on the same ecosystem as it just makes things a bit easier with my note/reminder taking (our field crews use ipads so I'm always troubleshooting on my ipad or updating files to send out) and holy moly why is their no back button. One of my many other small nitpicks is it seems to take a lot longer to send contact cards which isn't amazing. It's fine to suggest features to make small changes that benefit the end user. Luke had great comments about putting certain features a bit further out of sight from the general population. Would be a happy fella if that happen.
There is a back button, it's just a gesture so you're not wasting screen space like on Android. You swipe right at the bottom of the screen. On the iPad, you can also do a four finger swipe to the right. When I'm using my phone I don't have to think about how to go back, I just do it instantly. This is like saying that vim is a bad text editor because you have to learn the key commands. I use vim literally every day, so I don't have to think about the commands, my fingers just do them. It's the same thing on iOS.
@@coolbugfacts1234 the problem is that android have option, you want gesture you can do that, if you prefer button you can also choose that, while in iphone it's mandatory, and not everybody like gestures (my dad and brother still hate all the gestures for any kind of navigation) giving options is the best thing to do, especially since the back gesture can interrupt in app gesture, if you don't do it properly or you're just not used to it, why does the word options just so hard for apple to figure out
@@randomvg00 every option or setting you add to a software system exponentially increases its state space. a piece of software with only 10 options, has over 1000 possible states.
@@coolbugfacts1234 it's the world strongest phone chip, with the world most efficient phone OS, and you're saying that a phone like that couldn't handle 1 more option, my old 100$ android phone can have it since 3 to 4 years ago, the problem isn't that it's too complicated or hard to do, it's apple not wanting to do it, because in their perfect world nobody wants a simple universal button over gesture or fingerprint scanner over face unlock or a sim card, but they couldn't see the actual real world that there are a bunch of people that wants it and adding these things to their product only makes these people happier and actually spends more for their product, and for some reason apple fanboys just defends them for their stupid decision of not adding simple features that a lot of people actually uses and prefers
@@randomvg00 It's not about hardware, it's about producing a reliable and well tested software system. It doesn't matter how powerful your hardware is, if the software you're writing cannot be tested.
I never knew what T9 dialing was until you explained it here, and it sounds awesome, so out of curiosity, I opened my phone to start typing to see if it has it, and it does, so now I have learned of an awesome feature my phone has that I never knew of before, thank you! You also make good points on cruise control in school zones, in many vehicles I have driven, coasting is too slow, but holding the gas at any amount is too fast (all vehicles I have driven use a cable for acceleration, I am sure drive by wire systems have a nicer acceleration curve), and with many places having speed traps, I have to monitor my speed a lot more than normal.
I think the reason 'call' commands suck is that contacts aren't sent to the cloud. voice recognition converts your voice to text in the cloud, cloud returns the string then locally, it uses that string to go through contracts. idk that's my guess as to why
I'm with Linus, cruise control allows you to concentrate on the road. If you are holding 40km/h or the car is doing it, it doesn't make a difference except when cruise control is doing it you can watch the road and not worry about speeding. Not every driver passing through the school zone is going to stop and drop off a child, especially in the 9am to 9:30 period in Australian school zones.
Yeah absolutely agree annoying that most cars stop cruise at 40km/hr. I'd love it to go much lower though as my work's standard is between 15-25km/h onsite and it's distracting to keep a car that low and watch everything going on around you.
As a person who was a long time Android user that recently switched to the iPhone 13 Pro (just for the superior video camera quality), you've hit the nail on the head for me regarding this topic. At first, I thought it was a "me" issue, but over time, it's been pretty clear that iOS is just not an intuitive experience. It's been a year and I'm low-key still dreading how its either "apples way, or no way"
I'm in a similar situation, but I switched to ipads, for better performance. Even though Android is behind in tablets, part of me still prefers it because I find android to be the more navigable OS. Also just having more options just sweetens it.
@@FireFuture-fq7if I have the samsung tab s7+ and its a super tablet, the best android tablet for sure. Samsung are propping up the android tablet market for sure. I got it for 500 GBP too
When I saw the AirPods review I was a bit frustrated at his critiques of Apple Music but it did get me to reflect more on myself. I've been a long time Apple user, it's the only computer/smartphone system I've ever used and it probably will stay that way (at least for now). Apple has gestures so deeply integrated into their systems that they are just muscle memory to me. It's so much so that I get confused when I see non-Apple users struggle to do something that is muscle memory to me. It makes me think now though, am I just use to the way it is and I just never question how it could be changed to be better, or did they find a sweet spot that works well without the added clutter of a back button? It's most likely I'm just very use to it and is why I won't be switching to Android (among other reasons) because I don't want to take the time to unlearn muscle memory.
I kind of wonder if it is just a big brain move by Apple to make navigation and other little modifications so specific to their eco system that it purposefully frustrates any of their users if they attempt to switch to anything else.
@@TravisTheSavage And most people I know who use Android immediately disable those gestures, having any amount of failure rate to using a gesture is just inferior to a dedicated physical/digital button to do the same task.
I switched to ios and adapted pretty well in about a week. It’s not perfect but if a first time Apple user could understand how to navigate in no time, it can’t be that bad.
@@AdityaChaturvedi28 It isn't about learning the gestures though, it is about inconsistencies. Linus himself has daily driven multiple iPhones over the course of his career for months at a time. It isn't like he doesn't know what he is doing. If a gesture fails to work even 5% of the time it just compounds in to a frustrating feature. Though in my experience is feels more like 25-50% of the time, it is tedious if you don't do it just right by trying to be too fast, too slow, not long enough, etc. Just give me a damn digital button so I don't even have to think about it.
The people complaining about using cruise control in a school zone to stay at the speed limit are the same people who would reguarly go 10 over the speed limit in a school zone and then say its okay to speed if you are paying attention
No I don't think most of them are old enough to drive. Alot of the comments are like "oh I thought he meant auto pilot". I cannot think of any way someone who owns a car and drives it every day would make that mistake
As an iOS developer, the swipe back not working is 9/10 a developer making a janky custom UI and not following the OS’s APIs As for the back button on the top, there is a lot of research that indicates that very few ppl use their phones one handed anymore just because of phone size. Not saying that is a good excuse but I think that definitely plays into it.
Windows search bar is actually useless. Most of the time it doesnt even bring up applications that are in the app list like minecraft. It just goes straight to bing, and opens a browser that i never use for it... just frustrating and stupid. Maybe some people like it that way, but theres not even an option to change it. Configurability its one of the best things to have for these kinds of situations. If you want it to not do something or to work slightly differently... just add a config option for it. Its not that hard, and it pleases both parties.
I switched to Android in late 2017 to early 2018, and when I switched from Apple I knew how to do nearly everything that everyone could ask me to help them with, but now I can't even figure out how to open the quick access because Apple decided that their entire UI should be controlled by 1 gesture with no button input at all. The company makes a lot of changes that are for the worse of user experience and just expects people to be happy with the changes.
Been watching Linus for many years now, all the guys working there makes this a great channel, form South Africa, If I could, I would also go work for him,
8:35 there you have it. the issue is not with you or your methods of doing or explaining things. the base issue is that some people are just plain stupid and no matter what you say or do that will never change.
you hit the nail at 7:30 it’s the passion that comes out a bit forceful to some individuals who feel the opposite to you that is causing this reaction. i feel if you were not yourself 😅 and put a lot more empathy it may and i say may just get your message across to that type of audience. be yourself you can’t please everyone, trust me i know 😊 doing cruise in school zone may lead some drivers to be a bit lax during that zone.. it’s not autopilot however the driver may go in autopilot zone… regulations are designed for the safety of kids in school zone. so if there is a small even 1% risk then it’s not worth it. I feel you’re not looking for alternatives to your opinion within yourself, you are in a position that either you don’t have people questioning you or you’ve gotten so confident you stopped questioning yourself
@@Nersius ha yeah Ive been using Android my entire life never knew I could do that. I always just dialed a few digits of the phone number or searched for the person in contacts
@@dlnrdn3667 you know how there are letters on the numbers of your phones dialer? Instead of typing in a few digits of the number you're trying to call just spell out the word. For example my wife is in my phone as wife 9433 (w I f e) pulls up her number even though none of those digits are in her number.
I had a teenager step out in front of my truck in a 25mph zone a couple of weeks ago.. even though I was going the speed limit, it happened so fast that I barely had time to react and was able to avoid him. Having cruise control on and my foot ready on the brake would have been a good option if I wasn't making zig-zagging through downtown
The cruise control thing freaked me out before you explained it, because I'm used to thinking of cruise control in the context of freeway driving, where a large part of your brain just kinda turns off, but it actually makes a lot of sense if you're able to continue to pay enough attention. On the freeway I actually disengage cruise control if I'm in a complicated situation.
I tend to disengage it on the freeway too when the speed is inconsistently changing due to traffic conditions. When I can just chug along at a constant speed, I leave it on either on freeway or normal roads.
I have never once considered turning on cruise control in a school zone. Like a chat message said, I don't have multi mile roads without stop signs where cruise control would make sense. In my car, cruse control disables itself if you press the brake, and you need to press a button to re-enable.
I use to be that way on freeways and still am, my now that my current car auto brakes during traffic and auto accell, I just leave my foot over the brake for emergencies, but the car can handle the slow down and speed up of traffic pretty well on it's own. That being said, I live in a place with snow and winter driving is and will always remain a completely different animal. But that's not the convo at hand, of course.
I am a MacOS and iOS user. Neither is even close to perfect. I have huge gripes with each, though I also prefer each to their alternatives. I usually agree with your criticisms of Apple products, or if I don't, at least I can respect where you're coming from because you explain your criticisms. Just keep on doing what you're doing, which is being honest. You can never please everyone.
I would agree. As an Apple user, sure there are issues and features that are missing or poorly implemented sometimes, but as a whole I much rather prefer the MacOS experience over Windows. I have had to use windows in the past and it wasn’t an issue of adapting to the system, there were just FAR to many bugs/problems/auto updates/viruses/and poor stability. While apples has its specific ways of doing things that I sometimes disagree with, I truly don’t understand how Microsoft with the biggest desktop OS market share produces such a flawed operating system and that everyone just accepts it… again this is down to fundamental and more serious issues for me.
I had a similar debate with an old boss of mine because they wanted to buy a truck (F550) without cruise control. I told him that’s a bad idea because you spend more time focusing on doing the speed limit, rather then checking your load securement in the mirrors and paying attention to the vehicles around you. You end up speeding up higher then the limit and slowing down more then the speed limit the entire drive (8 hours a day) because you’re pulling 40-50k pounds and if you’re not holding the throttle exactly where it need to be you’re constantly speeding up or slowing down.
Honestly I think this falls under the category of differentiation of a product. If user experiences were more universal then it can become a real choice problem even if it was just a setting buried in vague menus. It might not be popular but it’s incumbent upon the manufacture to create their version of a user experience. Sometimes that means supporting “must have” functions, other times that means bucking the trend and using something unique to your device. It’s not objectively right or wrong in most cases, except in instances of design that is non-functional or bad to the extent of negatively impacting sales. To date I’m not sure Apple qualifies for either of those. As for the cruise control issue, I think it’s more basic than that. Put simply people will always react negatively to the idea of using any sort of automation for dangerous machines around children. That’s it. Frankly it might be safer but the fact that any control is turned over to automation is the problem people are upset about. This is evident from the poor examples they give because they adamantly know in their minds that something unsafe is occurring but they can’t really find any credible way to express it. Ultimately as a reviewer you need to express yourself and your thoughts on things. They won’t always align with that of your audience but the issue in my mind isn’t that they don’t align but the absolute terms you use to describe them. Saying something is objectively bad or wrong is very absolute, and should be reserved for things that are mostly beyond dispute. Power supplies that are catching fire or exploding, that’s objectively bad. A UI that differs from your expectations or ideals, that’s unfortunate but not necessarily objectively bad.
Thanks for being in the rare part of the audience that actually understands the situation. Or maybe those are plenty too, but they don't necessarily comment, leaving the comment section to largely LTT bootlickers.
I would argue that a lack of customizability such as seen in the iPhone is inherently bad just from an accessibility point of view. It's your device you should be able to adapt your own user experience to your needs. you can do this with Android in many ways. If iPhone and macOS could actually provide more options even if it's a pain to find behind their usual interface. that's got to be a good thing.
Thanks to this conversation I now know what T9 dialing is and after 2 test find it better than any other way of calling. This is why I watch LTT, on a regular basis I learn something new that is actually useful in my daily life.
Totally agree on the low speed cruise control thing. I've never had a speeding fine partly because of that. My old car wouldn't let you use it under 40km/h and it drove me batty.
100% agree with the cruise control idea in school zones for faster reaction times. Honestly was laughing when you went over the comments because the way you described the situation to handle is literally something you have to learn when getting a Class A,B,or C CDL.
I’m not disputing you, but I’ve never heard the use of ACC in cars in advocated for use in school zones as a safety measure. I was taught to modulate speed and drive defensively when, say, near a school based on possible dangers such as young children or reduced visibility. People are less likely to do this for emerging threats with CC as there it’s a conscious threshold, obviously if a child runs out then you will hit the brake, but you should have been driving defensively , sensed the situation, slowed down and covered the brake.
Yeah Linus, keep your opinions going with computers but you're objectively wrong about cruise control while driving in a school zone. Be dogmatic but accept that a car company can't design cruise control based on a potential safe way of using it when it also creates many more unsafe ways of using it. Cruise control was designed and approved for highway driving under ideal conditions, anything else would need new government approval.
Once again the cruise control (CC) feature is something that a lot of people will fight over because unlike you, most people don't look at cruise control like that, they look at it as a form of being able to relax a bit and that's something you don't want in a school zone or in wtv places you might need it under 50km/h. Besides that (and this might be a european problem) we use a lot of manual gear cars (idk if that's the correct term) and when you try to set up cruise control and you have to deal with a manual transmission things can get complicated and people will most definitely get caught up in "all these things". I think this might be just an industry standard, but even though I understand your point of having cruise control under 50km/h, it makes a lot of sense, I don't think it applies to all of the people and the relaxation most people are looking for in CC is not meant to be used in a school zone. Manufacturers have to think in most of the worst-case scenarios and if you think of a normal distribution you have more or less 50% of people below the average IQ (not a good way of measuring it but it's just to make a point) level, if you consider the bottom 5%, most have a drivers license and if 1% of them are those people who look at cruise control as a form of relaxation while driving and cause accidents, those are too many accidents, even tho it might help other people. The thing is that this might help you and most people, but if it affects negatively some they won't implement it because the risk of children getting injured or killed is never worth the risk and for those like you that want to use it in a good way, you can keep doing the same you're doing already
@@tiagoqueiros2860 I would not be surprised that CC required a minimum of 30mph /50kph - it seems a sensible minimum. My car has a speed limiter which I use for 20mph zones (we have a lot of in London (uk)) which seems more suited.
@@RedBentley He's not wrong about cruise control and cars I drive can be set to cruise below 20mph. It should not be and is not just for highway driving.
Voice Controling Devices Granted it´s been about 6 years since I did this test but I was genuinely surprised. So due to my job I had a Windows Phone, an Google Pixel and an iPhone to test our Software with and one day I decided to test the three voice assistants (OkGoogle, Siri and Cortana) with tests as playing music, creating tasks and calendar events and I found OkGoogle to be quite unusable, Siri was okay-ish with a lot of issues and Cortana actually worked almost flawless. You could just tell her to create an event at time x and invite person y with a reminder at time z in real speech and it did just that. I still have issues with Siri today on my iPhone 14... weirdly enough it does work perfectly when I tell her to play music while cycling. I guess she´s into that.
You can't appreciate what you don't have. Working in cell phones is mindblowing what some customers think carriers/manufacturers consider "normal" or "standard". Same logic when cell phones came out, "why would I need to call someone on the go? If I really need to, I'll find a pay phone"
There is standards for application and UI/UX design, you could have your team do a small investigation on the subject and review your opinion against the standard, release the investigation and your points on it in a small document. This shows you have done the work to back your opinion (beyond empirical knowledge) and it allows you to more or less forget the type of comments you have mentioned unless they are sufficiently backed by investigation or are sufficiently popular.
On the braking subject I think you would probably need an experiment to back that something is "objectively better", the amount of people that get distracted without having to pay attention to the accelerator might be higher than 0. In the matter of how to get your point across to a greater amount of people, maybe a negotiation expert can help you break the walls on people's minds, I read this book called "Never split the difference" it is fool of advise that have worked for me.
They get bothered because you, in giving critical feedback about design, are "attacking" their identity they've carefully constructed for the purpose of social clout. If they objectively enjoy iOS more I think they would be able to handle criticism as you're obviously not directing it at them
Can confirm linus's cover the brake argument is valid. Motorcycle riders use this exact technique when riding in areas that present a higher risk of collision, those fractions of a second can make the difference between life and death
Oh, cruise control to hold the speed! At first I thought Linus wanted to use some kind of autopilot in a school zone. That would have been a PR nightmare, lol.
Linus mentioned something about icon placement on Macs. The desktop has many sorting options and has since, I think the pre-OSX days. Command + J or View -> Show View Options in the Finder gives you a window with desktop options. One of which is "Sort by", which you can pick "None" and place icons anywhere you want, without the snap-to-grid. My personal setup uses snap-to-grid, but no sorting by name, file type, etc. and this lets me move files all over the desktop I want, putting them wherever. I just prefer them on the right-side of the desktop. I do think that Linus should keep his opinions or suggestions to better a product in the review. Otherwise what is the point of the review? When I watch a review, I want to know what the individual has to say about the product, positive or negative. I want to know issues they have with it and any solutions they think could make it better. The car cruise control thing, I think people assume that this is an autonomous drive system? When cruise control has been a thing since long before self-driving was even tested. All cruise control does is set a speed, allowing the driver to not have to keep a foot on the gas to make the car move. It also lets the driver to hover the foot over the break, in case of a sudden reason to stop, such as a person darting out into the street.
I think he was talking about not being able to put app icons wherever you want on ios, it has to be the next one in the grid instead of being able to say, have just four apps icons in each corner of the screen.
@@SkeletonGuts Yeah he probably ment IOS since that was the target of the main rant. And just said desktop cause he was heated and not thinking straight
Covering the break is very commonly used in emergency vehicle operations. When you're driving as fast as possible through denser areas by necessity and need to be ready to stop, while also worrying about the scene you're heading to, it's really something you need to do. If you see something happening ahead and don't start to apply the brake, that's objectively bad driving
The problem is people want to argue no matter what. It doesn't matter what side you're one, or what your position is, someone will argue. A lot of people will change their position day-to-day just to argue with people.
Moral of the Story, you can't make everyone happy and people do not understand we all have different point of views xD You doing great Linus, keep up the good work.
Yeah, that's the part of the story that Linus would like you to focus on. The other part is the title of the video that commend was made on is "I hate giving Apple my money", so part of the cause if not the root cause that made that person comment that opinion of theirs (not saying that comment is wrong or right, just saying it's more negative than the average comment) is Linus himself.
You didn't grow your audience by adjusting your opinions so they fit everybody's vision of the products. Is your authenticity and objectivity what makes your channel awesome and also what makes u a great reviewer. Don't change a thing, don't give them that satisfaction. These kind of haters don't deserve that from you.
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“authenticity and objectivity”
ok, i laughed.
"Authenticity and objectivity"
Meanwhile the title of the video that comment Linus is talking about came from: "I hate giving Apple my money"
Yeah right.
@@utubekullanicisi a fresh 2000$ doorstopper, coming your way because a 2$ chip broke.
Whenever Linus said something about a manufacturer being shit, it's always explained/has been explained in the past.
Telling people that you focus on privacy only to fuck them over is just not cool. Not giving an option to repair stuff is not cool. Aggressive upselling is just annoying af, and you should not subscribe to your cars speedometer.
That's just a bunch of BS to legally steal your money.
Honestly, as an apple user, your takes on what would be better are always spot on. You don’t come off as entitles at all. I use iOS and macOS because I personally prefer them, they aren’t objectively better, and there’s definitely things that could improve. I’d love a proper back swipe or button, and most of the things you’ve said iOS is missing is accurate and it’d be better if they had them
What other things do you think that Linus mentioned previously should come to iOS & macOS?
Bro finder is probably the best damn file explorer to ever be created. Nothing on Linux or windows comes close. I don’t think people realize just how far ahead it still is.
Although the swiping back always works, and is always reachable for me so what he said at 2:58 just isnt true. He’s right about it being a choice being better
@@christopherfortineux6937What makes finder so much better?
@@christopherfortineux6937 On Windows I type and my files shows up. What happens on macOS?
Apple doesn't even give the user the ability to turn off mouse acceleration to get raw mouse input in MacOS. Apple does some weird things.
@@minbcraft you can also jailbreak your iphone to add features
@@lockkeylive We're talking about MacOS, not iOS.
Out of curiosity: what do you need raw mouse input for on macOS?
I only know about the importance of raw mouse input when gaming.
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Thanks for the genuine answers. As I only use a trackpad on my Mac, I didn’t know that a mouse feels so much worse on macOS.
@@Wesker3107 for EVERYTHING!
@@Wesker3107 I prefer it for navigating programs that I use daily.
UI Feedback from someone who is not used to it is often far more useful than feedback by someone who is used to the UI. We saw that in the Linux challenge - sure, watching Linus use Linux sometimes is like watching a grandparent attempt to navigate a Phone, but that is exactly what makes it incredibly valuable. Especially because he has the the reach to get things changed that need changing.
I sometimes disagree with Linus and a lot of the stuff covered these days is so far in the high end that the unboxings and reviews are rarely useful for me personally, but Linus always has well substantiated opinions and a lot of integrity - and that's what I value in a tech youtuber.
Exactly. Things sometimes seem obvious but theyre only so because youve been in the ecosystem a long time. If new users struggle with it, thats an opportunity to do the design better.
Especially if it’s a company that cares about actually getting new users. I’ve had an iPhone for years, and there’s still things I didn’t know I could do because it’s not told to you anywhere
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The problem with your analogy is that phones took over, whereas linux will not.
i would say as well issues that come in from user error, sometimes the real culprit is the UX design being bad. where it doesn't really communicate to the user properly on how to use it.
Dude the cruise controll thing is something I agree with you on. Setting your speed removes one thing to pay attention to, so you can focus more on everything else. I am soo happy that my cars lowest cruise speed is exactly 20 mph.
Mine is 20km/h, so it is even slower. But it is still a 20, funny enough.
I use the speed limiter in these situations. This sets a maximum speed, where cruise control sets a minimum speed. I can lift up the accelerator to slow a bit more down and press it fully to go back to the limit. Seems to me to be a safer option and most cars have this.
My (radar) cruise control's minimum speed is 19 MPH, and I use it literally every time I'm in a school zone. I struggle to understand the conviction that keeping your foot on the gas and focusing on the speedometer is somehow safer than allowing cruise control to free up your foot for quicker braking and your eyes for focusing on the environment.
I disagree with you and Linus here and the problem is probably that he says "it is objectively better" when there are valid reasons to think why it may be not.
What I would do in a school zone (or anywhere else) is when I see a child or a dog or so that behaves weird and I think it might run into the street I will take my foot off the accelerator and hover over the brake.
In that case you have the same reaction speed as with cruise control but are already slower if something happens.
I know from personal experience with rentals that I will not tap the brake and reset the cruise control later when I feel I might be a hair too fast since that feels like annoyance.
@@1337Jogi You can actually cancel cruise control same way you turn it on (most cars lever or button on/near steering wheel). You don't necessarily have to press brake pedal to turn it off/ slow down. For example on my Audi I can manually adjust speed with a lever near steering wheel. I am from Eu and we have home/school zone where max speed is 20km/h(~13mph) and I use cruise control all the time with no issues. Trust me I can stop my car almost instantly, so I don't see any point going any slower or jerking my throttle
@@Justin_Leahy And that is fine.
If for you it works better that way by all means keep it.
I just can say that for me personally I find it annoying to deactivate and reset the cc and sometimes drive a tad faster than I would without it because I just leave it on.
So the problem here is more Linus' statement that it would be objectively better.
Which it is not and maybe make people feel that he thinks himself superior and all knowing.
Linus shows just how much genius he is here, in so many ways. “Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” T9 dialling is something I never consciously realised, it's amazing and a great example.
I hope that quote isn't from this clip because that would just be icing on the cake when he already shows that he doesn't respect the intelligence of their viewers, as he claims he's unbiased while doing sh*t like making a video with a title "I hate giving Apple my money". What purpose does that title serve (the title of the video that that comment came from, by the way) other than ignite the fire of hatred in the brains of Apple haters (people who will hate on something (not just Apple) without ever analyzing both the merits and the faults)? As Lex Fridman says, "can you feel the hate in the world that comes to the surface when you say something like that"? And how can you judge a comment filled with hatred towards one thing or the other (doesn't matter, and I'm not saying anything about whether that person is right or not) with a straight face if part of the cause if not the root cause of the reason why they felt the need to comment that opinion of theirs is you?
@@utubekullanicisi His hate towards Apple is not biased though, Apple keeps proving time and time again how anti-consumer they are.
T9 is not better if you're better with touch typing...LOL. Not objective truth. Subjective opinion.
@@RichardServelloAre you daft? It's objectively better to have it as an OPTION. They literally said it like 9 times in this exact clip. It's objectively better to have because it has ZERO interference with touch typing or whatever other method you might prefer to use to input the same thing, but there's no reason not to have it as a tertiary option.
@RichardServello bro, are you smoking a pack? It's objectively better to have it as a option.
As a UX designer, I always love to hear you recommendations (and complaints) about any product, ‘cause I agree with you! Or I’m like “riiiight: I haven’t noticed that before”.
“Change Management” became a paid profession because we humans don’t like changing what we do or believe, so, yeah: people will complain about you going contrary to their beliefs.
Fellow UX designer hear. Yes this is the unfortunate effect Apple has made to UX as the commonality of their software has created a false sense of usability to an unfortunate amount of users.
The brain favors the known over the unknown, what is known is familiar and safe, what is unknown is unfamiliar and unsafe.
Sometimes people need a push, though.
I’m an iPhone user and I hate the back mechanic. I’m used to it, but I hate it. As with many things in iOS, I like that people talk and rant about those things because I’d love them to be made better by apple. I think your objectivity lens is pretty much on point most of the time. You shouldn’t pay attention to haters and hurt fanboys. But then again, it’s a good thing that you review yourself from time to time (:
Btw I call by opening spotlight, typing the first two letters of a contact shows it with a phone button next to it. So it’s about 3 or 4 taps for any contact.
Yea I still really want them to fix simple things but I’m so used to it I don’t mind as much.
Agreed i have an ipad and I spend more time going back on a ipad or iphone than when i do it on my android. Its one of the reasons why i struggle switching to an iphone
I’m with you. I switched to iPhone 12pro and the single biggest thing I miss from android is the right side swipe-to-go-back gesture.
Yep same. I love my iphone and macbook but there are some really dumb choices that apple makes. The back button is one of them. For a long time not letting you choose different default email apps etc on Iphone was one. Still aggravated it wont let me change my default maps app.
If I remember this correctly, one thing I loved the concept of with Windows Phone was there was a website where users could suggest improvements and new features. The community could also then vote for these suggestions, thereby encouraging innovation, community spirit and hence loyalty, plus the ability to easily guage the popularity of new ideas. I'm not aware of anything like that with Android and we know Apple consider themselves to good for that lol
That sounds great in theory, but they also have to actually use the feedback.
Spotify also has a user forum where you can submit ideas and vote for them. Yet it seems like they ignore most of it, and even if they implement an idea, it can take years.
Sounds good in theory. But what happened is popular stuff will get added yet not be liked when it actually get added.
"Oh cool phone has projector"
"Oh... Projectors need a lot of power..."
Microsoft still has this for other products as well
Did they actually add any features?
@@DraakjeYoblama The difference is Windows actually implements the feedback. Spotify throws it in the garbage unless it gets to certain upvotes in a certain amount of days, and then if they don't feel like adding it, which is probably why the suggestion it's not a thing already (e.g. queue next), then they throw it out as well.
You might lose some people because your views are different compared to theirs. But, you'll gain and retain so much more people around by being honest and open, speaking your mind. The sole reason I'm following every video you guys put up, because you guys give us insights, your opinions and you always manage to give a fair review whilst providing your opinions. Also remember, people who are happy with what you are providing might not be loud, because they "don't need to argue". But if someone is on the opposite side, they'll make sure to let you know you are "wrong", especially on the age of internet. So, as a long time viewer, you are doing the right thing. This kind of stuff is why people are watching you. Please don't change things because of a vocal minority.
this
Couldn't have said it better.
Also, Apple - probably.
Not hating, just saying. It applies to them as well because many people that use their stuff (me included) don’t always use or even know about the new stuff - they like it cuz it’s simple and it just works (most/some of the time). Then when they finally add the new thing, people complain because either something changed/is different, is hard to find (buried deep in the settings, doesn’t work right cuz there’s too many new features to keep up with on the Dev side, etc.
Honestly, it would be cool for Apple to take the Linux approach and you could have different flavors of iOS. One that’s simple, looks good, and does everything the majority of people need; one with a little bit more personalization, features, technical things that people could do basically like a jailbreak but more ‘Apple’. Not trying to make excuses for Apple, but I can definitely see where it starts getting difficult for companies to appeal to everyone which can and is good because not everyone has the same ideas and it also creates competition.
To be fair if you lose people who don’t stick around because an opinion is different they aren’t the people you really want around. People who can have different opinions, understand that you have a different opinion and stay civil and friendly are the best people to have around! … right? 😅
I don’t get why you are selling this as a positive. “People who agree with you will stay” is how echo chambers are created.
If Linus made a video where he just daily drove around on a Ryzen CPU and said “This CPU is objectively better”, we would call BS, but we accept it gladly when he does the same when it comes to UI design.
I think that it isn’t always possible to make people understand your perspective without going into full detail with literally everything you say, which would make speech (and more specifically reviews) impractical.
You are doing a great job of explaining what you think and why you think it and if people want to take it the wrong way there is not much you can do about it. Just keep making great content!
Agreed. There's not enough time nor viewer patience nor the need to go into that much detail about every opinion. We as viewers should be able to understand that people are going to have preferences and when they make general claims in a review video, those claims reflect their own opinions. That shouldn't need to be explained. Our job as viewers is to find reviewers whose tastes match ours so we can make informed decisions about products.
A couple things we cannot know firstly with any international company is there some obscure copyright law that prevents certain actions.
Secondly products have to stand out in some ways artistically. How each company chooses to stand out is not always the “objectively better“
As an example I think I remember someone saying, Teslas auto pilot at first was flawed adjusting to speed signs because somebody else had patented using cameras to adjust cruise control that was never actually implemented but patented.
People probably have a problem with the certainty built into the proclemation of the words "objectively better." Alot of people spend there life qualifying themselves and have a problem when others are certain about what they think. Keep up the great work Linus. Love you guys.
Don't let it go! Your absolute willingness to share your opinions is what makes you special. It's because you back your options with experience, decades of industry knowledge, and maturity that makes LTT great. You're willing to consider other opinions and change your own (as evidenced by this video), and that's honestly all you need at the end of the day
>Your absolute willingness to share your opinions is what makes you special.
Yeah, because the world isn't full of people willing to share their opinions. Nothing wrong with fanboying but that's just dumb.
@@mfnbpwnz Quite a lot of tech youtubers "hold their tongue", so to speak.
Linus is intelligent, BUT yes, the way he presents his opinions/tastes as objective facts has annoyed me for a long time and put me off the content and made me stay away from LTT a lot. Because it often comes from a view where Linus is used to some way of doing things, and lacks the insight into alternative ways of doing things, and just proclaims something bad based on that sheltered view. It really rubs me the wrong way. Linus is smart and there is definitely value in his reviews, but really wish he would open his mind more and try to adapt to new systems, and modt importantly try not to present everything as "his way or the highway".
this justifies me being an "asshole" according to anyone online. thank you. i feel a little bit less bad about myself
I'd rather Linus be a confident voice in the space and get called out and eat humble pie when he's wrong, over him being unwilling to do things like write scathing reviews of Intel.
I agree with what other ppl have said however: he tends to establish himself as an authority on things that sometimes he knows jack shit about, but I think we can agree that's the exception not the norm.
^That's when the legion of viewers scrutinising his every move comes into place and holds him in check lmao
In an industry dominated by shitty journalism and capitalist giants that reaaaally want to silence any criticism of their products, having someone with a loud voice is crucial, even if that voice is a bit obnoxious at times
Linus's outburst about the back button was one of my favorite Linus moments in recent history. Do you, Linus.
Is that guy still working for Linus?
And sadly they cut that part out... It was hilarious
@@piereligio_ds They cut it out of the video? Wow, I guess I should have saved it.
@@seankkg yeah they removed it 😭
What happened??
I have been an iPhone user since it first launched and have never used Android or other mobile OSs, so have never heard of T9 dialling until this video. I now want it as I can see how useful that would be!!!
I think that you should always advocate for the best for users in all instances and I always find your reviews a fair reflection of the state of things. Keep it up 😁
I used it all the time whe I was an Android user. Fun fact, to call 'Mom', you'd type 666...
@@oricardopestana as an android turned ios user, I still didn't know that T9 dialing was, i even googled it and didn't understand. your comment made it clear tho, that sounds like a useful feature.
I'm a long haul transporter, I use my cruise control 98% of my driving unless I'm coming up to a turn.
Those few seconds you save processing that you need to brake will save someone's life. Good on you Linus
I agree but I think the problem people are concerned with is there will be people who use the cruise control systems so they can look at their phone or take their focus away from driving. It's good for people who are responsible but the fact is that most people are idiots and not responsible.
@@jamess.2491 completly agree
Once again the cruise control (CC) feature is something that a lot of people will fight over because unlike you, most people don't look at cruise control like that, they look at it as a form of being able to relax a bit and that's something you don't want in a school zone or in wtv places you might need it under 50km/h.
Besides that (and this might be a european problem) we use a lot of manual gear cars (idk if that's the correct term) and when you try to set up cruise control and you have to deal with a manual transmission things can get complicated and people will most definitely get caught up in "all these things". I think this might be just an industry standard, but even though I understand your point of having cruise control under 50km/h, it makes a lot of sense, I don't think it applies to all of the people and the relaxation most people are looking for in CC is not meant to be used in a school zone.
Manufacturers have to think in most of the worst-case scenarios and if you think of a normal distribution you have more or less 50% of people below the average IQ (not a good way of measuring it but it's just to make a point) level, if you consider the bottom 5%, most have a drivers license and if 1% of them are those people who look at cruise control as a form of relaxation while driving and cause accidents, those are too many accidents, even tho it might help other people. The thing is that this might help you and most people, but if it affects negatively some they won't implement it because the risk of children getting injured or killed is never worth the risk and for those like you that want to use it in a good way, you can keep doing the same you're doing already
@@tiagoqueiros2860 Yeah I think the problem is that people like Linus and others are looking at it from the perspective of, "How would I use this?" rather than what the manufacturers have to take into account which is, "What is the worst that could happen?". I think in a tech-driven community like this one where most people are (probably) above average intelligence it's easy to forget that we're the minority in the world, and in business you have to cater towards the majority.
It reminds me of a quote from the great George Carlin, "think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider [more stupid] than that".
@@jamess.2491 I honestly think the biggest difference is how people perceive the situation he was describing. My first thought was that I wouldn't use cruise control to go past like a kindergarten or school for small kids either when I thought about it, but then I realized that's just because of how it looks over here. So I think it really depends on what kind of road / school you have. If you have a big road in urban area and on top of that you're living in a country where driving kids to school is the norm it's something different than if you're living somewhere in the boonies with super small roads winding in different directions and you know there's kids around there because they all walk to school (or walk back home) and play in that area after school.
I grew up next to a kindergarten, so basicly seeing kids getting there and leaving every day. So sure, speedlimit may be 30 but if I know it's that time of the day I'll be going through there with 10 if even that because I know there's kids playing on the street, or just running after their friends/siblings/moms&dads and especially with them being small who knows when they jump out on the street to catch a ball and whatnot.
So it's more like... I'll approach with 30, then slow down to 10 because sure speed limit might be 30 but can't do that right now, and then speed up back to 30 afterwards. Which you can do with CruiseControl as well but at that point you might as well just do it without. If on the other hand it's a straight road that just goes past a school, but there's no kids around I'll just drive speedlimit as well and cruise control is super normal.
People just get those... very specific situations in their mind because that might be the normal situation for them and it just sounds normal to them. Until they realize other countries do streets different, or do schools different, or maybe even just other cities do schools different then where you're from etc.
I use cruise control constantly. I have adaptive cruise, so using it in-town is a lot more feasible for me, but it is so nice to be able to place my full attention on the road without needing to concern myself about what speed I'm traveling. It makes me a better driver when I'm not the one regulating my speed and needing to keep looking down at the dash to ensure that I'm not speeding.
It was so weird for me getting back to a back button as an IOS user. I get what Linus was saying because when I started using Android DAP’s I immediately realized how much I missed the back button. There was times I would forget to use it, but not one second where it didn’t immediately strike me as a more intuitive UI element.
I have a different experience. As a person who has mostly used iOS, I prefer Apple’s back gesture over Android’s back button. I like both though.
@@Dingusdoofus Android has had swipe gestures as the main form of ui for years now, though the important thing is that android gives one the option to choose between the gesture or the button.
You don't need to have a back button, the back swipe gesture from both sides of the screen works as a back button. So you use full gesture controls with an intuitive back gesture.
@@DragonEdge10 fair
@@Chopper153 But its not intuitive. Your grandma will have to be told how to do it. Grandma don't need told how to use a back button.
I agree 100% with the CC in a school zone. It always frustrates me when I can’t engage it when driving slowly. There are many situations where I would rather have my foot on the brake (school zone, bad weather etc) then on the gas to be a fraction of a second better prepared
Exactly! I use Autopilot pretty much everywhere, especially school zones if the road markings are good. If not, I will at the very least use CC so I can keep my attention on the road and my foot ready on the brake. It's mind blowong how many are thinking that is more dangerous than hsving my foot on the throttle and focus on the speedometer
Added point - I do NOT trust autopilot and will never take my focus of the road when using it. There seems to be a prejudice that drivers who engage CC or Autopilot get spontaneously blind or narcoleptic, and that's just not true.
About the cruise control, i think the comment is more about how many people are easily distracted while driving and they would pay even less attention if the car required even less input, your point of view is completely valid because you as a responsible person would absolutely be paying attention and it would actually be beneficial, but people rarely are willing to extend that courtesy to strangers
In exaggerating terms is like the people that stop paying complete attention with semi autonomous driving system when in reality they should be an additional aid
Also as you talk, yeah i think a lot of people have no idea what cruise control is based on your chat hahaha some weird takes there
Linus: use cruise control
Chat: where do you get a boat in the middle of the street?
@@Heightren ikr, jesus the chat is so stupid.
Indeed. Cruise control just takes one action of your car off your thought process, allowing you to focus on other actions. For many, especially on low traffic highways, this is to play with the radio, talk to others, etc.
In a school zone, as linus describes, this can be to pay EVEN MORE attention to your surroundings and be readily able to tap the beak even faster, which is extremely important if a kid chases a ball right in front of you, where a milisecond faster respond time is the different between not seriously hurting a kid, or hiting them square enough they could fall over and crack their head on the pavement.
what you CHOOSE to do in a cruise control situation is up to you. And It's very hard for many to imagine taking advantage of cruise control to be a significantly more defensive driver, since that's not what they do when using cruise.
Also, a car letting you do cruise control at any speed doesn't mean you have to use it. You don't even wnat to contemplate school zones - don't. But if others are like Linus and more alert, why would they want that to change? Aren't options... good?
Hell, even on busy highways these days, I find myself using cruise a lot because my car has dectections all around it that will auto brake as traffic slows down. However, some may see that tool as a way to pay less attention and thus, maybe be more prone to other traffic mistakes.
Me, I look at it in two lights. One, my foot is always over the brake my entire drive incase of stupid situations, often involving motorcycles, and then two, the typical flow of traffic slowing and speeding up is taken care of so I can pay more attention to whats going on everywhere, while still be aware enough that if my car isn't slowing when it should, my foot is already on the brake.
They assume that once you turn it on you don't disengage when you see ify situation. They don't understand that you can simply tap the brake pedal when you drive near a car parked on the street to slow down if some kid would have run out. This is, as Linus said - just a bad driver, not a cruise control problem...
Aditionnally, where i live cruise control cannot be set up below 50km/h, and that is because in a city, setting up cruise control takes away attention for a few seconds and if you need to be resetting it every intersection, it is WAY more dangerous than just using your gas pedal.
I haven't ever owned and used an Android but the universal back and menu buttons always made a lot of sense to me and seemed like a fantastic idea. Gestures are nice too but sometimes I have apps that want to use swipe gestures for other things that make just as much sense like sliding out a side panel.
well you can lock the back gesture through software when developing apps on a for app basis (sometimes even on one side only)
You can configure Android buttons to swipe too, you can make them dissapear and swipe from the bottom or from which ever side or just transluscent buttons. Can be configure in any way you want. Ios gestures though are fixed.
Yeah. I was trying out the gesture mode in Android, but the swipe for Back would conflict with some apps that use swipe from side for other purposes... that and it's a little unreliable on curve-edge phones like high end late model Samsungs. So I went back to buttons.
@@FerralVideo Oh try the swipe from bottom, no apps use that one and works on curvr screens
@@FerralVideo I think it's great that Android provides the option between gesture and 3-button navigation. I tried my best to get used to gesture navigation, but there were those times when scrolling down would get misinterpreted as back.
It didn't happen all the time, but it happened enough times that I went back to the 3-button navigation. And I think that having the choice allows people to try out each method and choose for themselves which one they like the best, gesture or 3-button.
And the top-left corner button doesn't always mean back, so you can't always rely on it being the back button. *looks at VLC for Android*
I don't call people often, but when I do, it'll be over T9 dialing from now on. You've opened my eyes to an incredible technology I wish I'd known back in the days of phones without touchscreens.
love t9 dialing. especially the fact that 'mom' is 666. MARK OF THE BEAST!
Speed limiter where it limits your speed to a maximum but gives you full throttle control under that speed is a great option but a lot of cars don't offer it (yet have adaptive cruise control), also great in roadworks speed limited zone, as Linus says, it's allows you to concentrate on your surroundings and not your speed. Objectively better!
Keep going Linus, you're allowed your views, and I appreciate they are often very well considered.
My Mazda3 offers it and I use it literally every day. Set limit to the speed limit (+1/2), and I never ever have to look at my speed.
Cars are already equipped with a hard-line limit to speed.
All cars are technically capable of going faster than what the speedometer states.
However, manufacturers (particularly for the US market) are frequently required to install a "Governor" that prevents the engine from outputting all of what the engine could actually do.
They did try to require a lower artificial maximum output, but there apparently was too much pushback on that. 🤔
It also gives a false sense of security. So while you might be a responsible driver that would better concentrate on the surroundings, a lot of people would feel that with the speed set they can now mess around on their phone. So on average it could cause more accidents.
Do you have an example of a car with adaptive cruise control and at the same time lacking a speed limiter?
Never seen one.
I do agree on the fact that using the speed limiter in a school zone might actually be better, for two reasons.
1. You can reduce speed just slightly if you for example come up behind another vehicle and need to pass it while it stops to the side. If one hits 0 on the cruise control the car tends to jerk while it disengages.
2. When you want to get back to the previous speed by hitting reset on the cruise control it usually accelerates faster than what feels reasonable in the specific area.
@@Ce0ammer Seat Leon FR 2017 facelift.
I get this SO MUCH, Linus.
At my job and in life pretty much every day, I deal with people getting SUPER mad at me for saying something, when they don't clearly understand what I said.
Nowadays we live in an era where people will actively look for excuses to go into conflict. It's understandable because a lot of issues have been ignored and people have been suffering in silence for so long. And we all know, the more ignorant one is, the more belligerent one will be towards matters one does not completely understand. Hugs from the UK, Linus. Stay on the path.
I've seen plenty of people have the same stance on options in other areas as well. One good example is the issue with companies removing 3.5mm outputs on their devices. You have one side that prefers wired headphones and wants them to stay, and the people that wants them to go away because they prefer Bluetooth. The problem is that group 1 doesn't want to take Bluetooth away from group 2, they just want their preference to stay as an option, but group 2 doesn't extend that same courtesy to group 1. Broadly speaking, of course, I know there are exceptions within each group, I'm just saying what I've personally seen.
T9. Completly agree. Custom app layout, again goes back to the right handed use. I fill out the upper left corner with junk just so i have my useful apps on my lower right.. for a trillion dollar company, it feels like they hold a lot of progress back. At this point i was hoping for a little bit of utopic functionality like in the Her movie lol
as a previously Android user and currently iOS user for several years, I truly have not even noticed that T9 was missing, but now I'm kinda bummed out that it is.
Don't drop your opinions out of your reviews. As long as you have some logic to back it up like you have with T9, then your opinion is the reason we watch your review and not someone else.
The problem is that many people have lost the ability to actually listen and learn instead of just reacting with anger when someone thinks something they don't. For now I think the only thing to do is to say what you think and keep arguing logically for what you say.
The back button thing is one of those old Steve Jobs practices that are slowly dying off on the iPhone…. In his original vision, the phone screen was so small, and the software so well integrated, you wouldn’t notice the lack of a back button. I don’t know why Apple clings onto things like this
It drives to their narrative that their way is the best way. They don't want to be wrong in the eyes of the consumers.
I personally have never considered using cruise control as a way to stop sooner, and usually only use it when I need to go a consistent and annoying speed for a long time, like on a long trip on a highway. I have used it for slower speeds because it was kind of excruciatingly slow… like one time. Coming from that perspective, it’s hard to imagine that it would be faster and it was probably like a really quick angry reflex of “cruise control is for FAST” -> “you want to use FAST thing in SCHOOL ZONE???” -> “Linus is a MONSTER” without enough time for people to consider why it might be safer at all. I think very few people use cruise control that way. But maybe I am wrong.
I cannot believe that top comment is against cruise control in school zones. Not having to modulate your speed at an unusually low velocity is just one less thing to think about. Adding the fact that you need to stare at your speedometer every 7 seconds in a school zone is not helpful. You guys are stupid I'm sorry no I'm not you're stupid
Using cruise gives you less variability with your speed which isn’t ideal. You are more likely to need to brake causing those following to potentially misinterpret your break lights and emergency break. If you can’t maintain a speed to within a few MPH/KPH without constantly monitoring your speedo I question if you should have a license.
Cover the break with your left foot, even if you drive a manual covering with your left is fine in an emergency situation who cares about stalling the car.
Does this mean manufactures shouldn’t allow it to be set below a certain speed, idk maybe maybe not but using it in a school zone probably isn’t ideal, not really that big of a deal but it isn’t the best way to drive in that situation.
I use cruise control all the time.
I live in Edmonton. The streets are all straight as hell, filled with idiot drivers, and there are speed cameras at damn near every second intersection.
When I drove my 2001 Sportage? The lack of power, the feedback of a physical cable/linkage,and the thin sound deadening made it really easy to stay at a constant speed. I could feel the shifting of the pedal more, and I could hear the engine working harder, or less, easily. I now have a 2016 GMC Sierra with the base engine V6. Even with a small camper on the back, has drastically more power than my old Kia, and it is drive by wire. The throttle has so little resistance, and there is no feedback at all to let the driver know their foot has shifted that tiny bit, giving a bit more gas, or taking it out. The cab is also vastly more isolated from road and engine noise than my old Kia, if my engine speeds up 100-200 rpm? I can't really tell, like I used to. I would often find myself getting up to 70~ or so kph completely unintentionally, or dropping down to 50.
Using cruise just makes me a far more consistent, predictable, and safe driver on the road. I spend less time managing my speed, and more paying attention to the absolute imbeciles who seem to have a personal vendetta against everyone around them.
@@FinishHim90 you never use your left foot to brake with a standard transmission. If you stall you will loose control of your car as the wheels will lock up. When braking you always take your right foot off the accelerator and use it to press the brake. You left foot is always for the clutch. Your car should never stall, even in an emergency.
@@mandmwaddle bro I don't even have a license and even I know not to use the left foot for braking, what a goof lmao
Thank you for talking about this, I have always hated the lack of a designated back button after switching to an iPhone
I had to look up what t9 dialing was only to find out it’s something I’ve always been using.
Also in Australia our cruise control can be set at 40km/h and that our school zone speed, I use it for the exact same reason that Linus said. Set the speed and then my foot is on the break and I’m watching for munchikins to randomly dart onto the road as they like to do
I looked it up but still don’t understand it 🤷♀️ what even is it. I’m on iOS
Ok got to where Linus explains it around 14:30
Okay but the hell is munchikins, I only know betrayal
So, just FYI.
The back button issue. Has been caused by a design change in the phone.
So on the older models of iPhone, the screen was smaller 3:2 aspect ratio. at 3.5inch and probably with a lower resolution, it was much easier to press back that way one handed.
Since then, they stretched it out to 16:9 aspect ratio (better move) but caused the back button to be higher for the user thumb.
They pushed a kinda 'hotfix' by enabling you to double tap home to move the content down (which I use a lot, but it's not great). And they also kinda tried to rectified this by adding a swipe left in their apps and some UI views, but some are up to the developer to implement for swiping.
I think it's a design problem they got their users used to that method on the old iOS, then they made the phones bigger and now it's not a great choice.
I'd rather have the back button bottom left and use the phone better one handed. But all the UIKit toolbox components has been designed around this back button top left/info button top right, and group tab menu bar at the bottom. It's kinda hard to change all apps to do this. Maybe in the next UI redesign? but probably not...
Obviously, however that was 8 years ago and apple should have been able to come up with a back button in 8 years
iOS Dev here. The back gesture (interactive pop gesture) only works we you have a lateral navigation of views, example: in Settings when you tap General or WiFi. You will notice in these cases that a top left back button will appear, this is the only case where you can swipe to go back.
There is other way to present screens/views which is called "modal presentation", which now iOS usually presents them like stacked cards on top of the current view; in this case the view will not have a native back button and hence it will not be possible to do a back gesture.
Back gestures on Android (12 and above?) is a system wide thing, this is not and has never been the case on iOS.
Swipe for back not being integrated into IOS is exactly what they're complaining about... Oneplus has had this feature since their first phone which came out nine years ago and that was Android 4
I agree with the voice control thing, a lot of times the IT companies miss the obvious solutions
Apple most of the time 😅
You are presenting the info very clearly. You don’t need to change a thing.
Regarding the cruise control comment... I agree 100% with you Linus.
Your speedometer comment is very valid and I appreciate that someone else understands how Speedo’s are actually a (slight?) danger or nuisance in some cases.
I ride a motorcycle and don’t have a car, and once last year my Speedo cable broke - so I couldn’t see my speed for about two weeks while waiting for a replacement.
I IMMEDIATELY noticed a massive increase in road awareness on my end. I’ve seen things I’ve never seen on my commute. This is not to say I ride glued to the speedo. But between checking road hazards, speed limits, speed traps, and both mirrors constantly, removing even one factor actually made a sizeable difference.
This is especially true for school zone. Honestly I don’t know if I was under or over the limit when I didn’t have the speedo (I always just drove at the speed that felt natural and would allow me to emergency stop in a reasonable distance), but I felt MUCH more in control of the situation when I never had a logical reason to look down.
I’m not necessarily advocating to not have a speedo as most people are far too irresponsible to be given that much freedom (I’m not perfect either, I probably sped too), but my point is removing distractions when riding or driving is very helpful to anyone who’s trying to pay attention. I feel being aware and going fast is still safer than going slower and texting…
Another classic example is road tests. You know, where they ding you if you don’t have your head on a swivel, so as a result you spend more time looking everywhere BUT in front of you due to the grading criteria. I’ve never felt more unsafe than when I was doing my M exam and having to pay attention to things that didn’t require my immediate attention, purely because a grading sheet said I have to be looking at every driveway and intersection, along with my mirrors every 5-7 seconds.
Cruise control in a school zone makes total sense to me, IF used correctly by the driver 👍
Sometimes making something easier makes that people don't pay attention
@@martinpata2899 for sure! Has to be just involved enough for people to pay attention - I guess Tesla autopilot kind of showed us what happens when you make things too simple for the user.
I switched to iOS back in 2019 from a decade of android use. The lack of a consistent way to navigate back is still the biggest glaring issue. It’s easy to get used to it but it doesn’t make it any less baffling and un-intuitive. I’m sure they could easily make a gesture to fix this, but even with all the cool accessibility options in iOS, like binding an action to a double tap on the back glass, there’s still no universal way to go back. Lack of T9 dialing isn’t a big deal for me, but it should be a standard feature on all phones. Aside from those glaring issues though, I vastly prefer iOS over Android still.
What exactly do you and Linus mean with navigate back? Doesn’t swiping left to right on the bottom of the screen do exactly that? Or am I missing something?
@@NBAU92 That’s for going back to previously opened apps, not going back in the same app. Sometimes to go back in an app you swipe from the left of the screen, other times that doesn’t work and you have to tap the top left corner. Very inconsistent, it’s the most unintuitive aspect of iOS.
It is just apple being stubborn. It is so annoying as i use bot ios and android device. Analogous to it is lack of touch id on the phones or tabs or them sticking with lightining after so long
I switched in 2019 as well. And I am switching back after having had enough software issues on the ios. Downloading/saving videos from the browser, the browsing experience in general,, sharing media is a joke(looking at you discord), no back button, calling people is a pain, quick settings are annoying to use, can't access settings as easily as I was used to, can't customize notification alerts for contacts properly (boils my blood to this day), requiring so much extra hoops just to get a custom ringtone (or pay for a shitty version of what they might have in store), minimizing the keyboard, closing a video on youtube and the phone straight up refusing to let me browse on any browser if I don't update the phone while signed on for beta updates. Oh, having only face id is just pain. Nothing short of it. Just pain. I don't get how this is faster, back on my Xperia 1, my phone was unlocked by the time I took it out of my pocket. Here, I have to show my face, then swipe to unlock.
The iPhone is good, but ONLY if you look at it in one specific way. /rant
@@rg975 ahhh no I get it! Is this inconsistency happening in apples own apps, too? If it’s not possible in 3rd Party apps - than blame the app creator for
not implementing native gestures. I never really had this problem that swiping from the left edge didn’t work - that’s why I’m wondering.
I gotta say that I've never thought of that use for cruise control, and I think it's awesome! I wish my car allowed me to engage cruise control at low speeds... I find it baffling that people are not understanding the use case that Linus is proposing and are failing to grasp why it would be useful.
You're right, I don't understand the use case because if I'm driving at a low speed it's never a situation where I'm going to be at a constant one. High speeds on highways, no exits for miles, you set yourself to traffic and are done with it. In the city there's constant stop signs, traffic lights, people coming out of side roads or driveways, pedestrians, bikes, and a School Zone is going to be very high-traffic in that respect. I'm never basing what I'm doing on the posted speed limit, I'm basing it on what's going on around me. In those situations "slow down unless I keep my foot on the gas" feels more desirable than "stay at speed unless I put my foot on the brake".
@@adamsbja if your speed is always changing when in a 30kph area then you will be going too fast quite often, pray there are no speed traps around those school zones bud.
meanwhile those that are worried about the speed trap in the 30 kph zone are often taking there eyes off the road to check the speedometer and are now more likely to hit some kid, even though they are going slow. it would be awesome if the car slowed down automatically when entering a school zone, being able to set it manually is the next best thing.
now i'm not in the city, our school zones go for half a click or more, no stop signs, no traffic, 90% of the cars blow through them at 50 kph or higher, cops sit at them all the time and give out tickets, it's a 30 zone (some are 20), 18~ kids hit in the last 10 years or so, some died.
i can see your point in the city, but out in our 90,000 pop rural community some of the school zones are on main 4 lane roads and look a lot like other peoples freeways.
@@beverlywhitman303 what is a speed trap? If it is what i think it is, shouldn't there be a sign? Idk about outside of EU, but here we are legally obligated to put a sign (i can't remember if 100 or 150m) before the speed check happens. So if you are paying attention you know when one is coming and you just slow down, who cares if you go at 20 not 30... I refuse to believe that people don't notice if they go from 25 to 31 without looking at their speed neither. That i would consider bad driving and caring to go at the speed limit is even worse to me. If i'm in a situation where i'm unsure, the speed limit shouldn't even matter, i drive based on what's going on around me.
Also their example is terrible driving, braking enough to come to a full stop out of nowhere because "something moved" behind a car is plain stupid, that could cause an incident for no reason. You are supposed to slow down, maybe keep going at 15/20kmh then if you are getting close and still are unsure about what's happening you can brake completely, you don't wait to be close enough to have to brake to a full stop. Idk how cruise control would handle that. If i brake a bit and go from 30 to 20 and let go of the brake will it try to go back to 30 immediately or just turn off? If it turns off as soon as you brake then sure i can see it working, if it tries to go back to 30 it's fucking stupid
@@ForeverHobbit a speed trap is when a cop pulls into someones drive way out of sight, usually at the bottom of a hill or in a school zone, and waits for someone to pass by going 2-3 kph over the limit.
we also often have cameras (with no signage) that will get you with out warring.
in fact the town beside me has one (or had one) in a school zone where the limit is 50 kph followed by a crosswalk sign, then a parking sign and finally the school zone sign where the 30 kph is in small print. all with in 10m of each other.
if you look up wile your driving, at one point, all 4 signs are in view and you'd think 50 was the posted limit, and you may miss the school zone sign small print, there is no other indication of the start or end of the school zone on those 4 lanes. (6 lanes counting the side parking and father down buss lane)
the township made tons of money off it. as people even seeing the school zone sign had no idea when they can speed up again and get caught going 2 or 3 kph over half way though it, thinking they passed it. to this day it is still very poorly marked.
@beverlywhitman303 ngl canada has some weird rules for this. Speed traps in the US are cops just waiting. Usually, we say we got pulled over for speeding. As well as going 5 is like an accepted practice as in you won't get pulled over, obviously school zones are taken more seriously. On my car, the cruise control has to be reset every time i hit the brake, which is fine, but if i was to use it in the city, it seems like a hassle, but i might try it.
On iOS, in my own contact card, I’ve added “related name” fields for people like “spouse”, “mother”, ‘father“, etc. I can then ask Siri to “call my wife”, or “call Mum”, and it knows who I’m taking about. I then have their real names in their contact cards, rather than putting values like “Mum” and “Dad”.
It also seems to be smart enough to know that if I say “call [wife’s first name]”, it assumes I’ll talking about her, rather than other contacts who have the same first name.
iOS user issue
Why the fuck do I have to go to 10 extra steps? When T9 gets me faster to literally every name on my contact?
You did good. you give your opinion(at least I call them opinions for now, but some things are facts). which is based on the information you have from your years of experience(
Absolutely agree mate.
Not an attack or correction but something you might find value in.
You can split things up into 3 main groups.
Opinions
Value Claims
Facts
Opinions are always correct because they represent a preference. ---I don't like pineapple on pizza
A value claim is an implicit argument that a thing should/shouldn't be valued. ---Pineapple on pizza is bad
Facts are independently observable things but contain no conclusions are action items. ---There is pineapple on that piazza
Value claims must be supported with reason and evidence based arguments or there is no reaso to agree with the claim. After all claims have the burden of proof.
If someone has demonstrated the logic and provided the evidence and a person continues to disagree then they are in the wrong.
As such if something is linuses preference that can never be wrong. However if Linus claims there is a better way they have to defend that claim and prove they are correct.
I think Linues is not horrible but not great at this.
Not by choice but by the limits of the medium thru which we interact. On the same note decenters should be charitable and understand the limitation and thus bring up specific articulable reasons that they think a specific claim is unconvincing.
That way linus can directly address that point and give the arguments as to why his claim is correct.
@@nocare Well said, Great explanation!
@@Simply_Jerry Thanks I try.
I'm left-handed and hold my phone in my right hand so I can pick up my coffee mug with my dominant hand. 😂
As a tech review channel it is important to provide a detailed in depth interpretation of the product. If a bunch of people complain and misunderstand then it starts a conversation that helps people grow and push products to a new level (hopefully)
I worked at a particular fruit store and then at Big G. I have helped countless customers on both sides of the camp and have seen the best and worst of these user experiences. The first company thinks you don't know what you're doing and designs accordingly. The latter company assumes you know what you're doing and designs accordingly. As a general rule of thumb, I feel that's why many people get angry at Apple products while others love them. Some people want more control, and some don't. But I think there's no reason to get worked up about it. It's just personal preference or needs. We're all going to be okay.
That would be fine if all other things were equal between iOS and Android. The problem is that things aren't equal since both sides, although one definitely more than the other, try to limit compatibility between the two ecosystems (with RCS support being a great recent example). That compatibility break makes it so that groups (like families) tend to one ecosystem or the other rather than being decided on an individual basis, which leads to some members of that group being dissatisfied with certain features or the lack there of.
The situation is a lot more complicated than this one reason, but that doesn't change the fact that this lack of compatibility was a deliberate choice for both companies that does cause friction among their user bases.
yeah but the fruit company charges you a shit ton of money while trying to squeeze out your wallet by making their stupid accesories mandatory for your device.
@@ishitrealbad3039 You could also argue google sells and uses our data to push ads in front of us that increase the likelihood of us making a purchase of something we don't need thus indirectly squeezing our wallets. Both are driven by profits or they wouldn't exist and there's no way companies of that size would exist. Apple's main source of revenue has always been hardware and eventually transactions via apps (which google does as well) where as google has always been about collecting user data and using that to make mula. You don't get to that size of a tech company with an ethos solely of "we'll do whatever the best is for our consumers". It's easier to bash apple over their monopoly because ppl can physically experience the stupidity of it it in the real world. Your average joe wont understand or see how google uses your data to generate thier profits.
Android devices usually just work and when they don't then you can typically find a work-around to make them work for your needs. Most commonly, this is for launchers where people hate the aesthetic or a lack of certain functions in their launcher. Android will let you change that out. Apple, however, will not. So when things don't work the way that you need them to, there is no recourse. I would rather use the one that has certain expectations that I am competent so it'll let me fix things rather than the one that assumes I'm woefully incompetent and have to wait for daddy Apple to fix it for me.
@@rrcoaster367 The RCS issue is only a problem in America, nobody else uses texting. They're all using various messaging services that thinks of the EU are going to be forced to be interoperable. I think they could manage that by using a matrix bridge to maintain end-to-end encryption between different services.
Keep doing what you're doing. No video will explain things perfectly. There will always be people who misinterpret what you say. People don't naturally listen to understand. But I could be wrong. There might be a better way.
It’s weird for me think or hear about some of these features because I don’t use them. I am in my early 20’s and I barely use voice command’s nor do I drive so I can understand the confusion until you explained it. But I do agree that with these things I was unware they weren’t in the iOS and such. And I also agree with luke there will be people who don’t understand until you explained it but you can’t spend all day teaching fundamental things to people who can’t understand it after an in-depth explations to people
The thing with the iOS back navigation is a bit unfortunate. Back on the small phones (4S and earlier), it wasn't so important because no matter where the back button was, you could always reach it with one hand. Then iPhones got bigger, but at that point it was too late because you could never get all apps to support a system-wide back button/gesture. It would have always remain a patchwork of apps that do and don't support it.
(And, in my experience, the "back" gesture on Android also has a tendency to fall apart when you start having links between apps.)
It's not about how big the phone is ultimately. It's that it isn't great having different backs in different places. Android has a dedicated back button, which is essential. In terms of falling apart between apps, it is very predictable what it does in that regard and is not a problem. That is the same as Apple. If a link takes you to another app, use use the button to switch back to the last app, not swiping back. In the same way on Android, if you click a link to the other app, the back button will go back to the previous page in the app it switched to if it had been open already. If not it will go back to the previous app, or you use recent apps to get to the last app.
About the handedness issue... it sucks on all devices being left handed sometimes. Thing is all brands could address a lot of it as many times it's a software issue. Button placement is obviously fixed, but ambidextrous control options would be a welcome addition.
on all my android phones i could move my back button and home buttons and stuff around
When he mentioned the left hand / right stuff, it made me think about how I hold it. I wonder what the actual numbers are for primary hand holding. I hold it in my left and use my right to browse ever since the phones started getting really big.
samsung phones at least typically allow you to put the back button on the left side 👍
The lack of universal back is my BIGGEST gripe about switching to iOS. Android swipe back gesture on the right side of the phone is so much better. Ergonomically and objectively makes so much more sense.
Or if you don't like that, go to the settings and go to 3 button navigation instead like the good ol days
Setting your speed in a school zone frees up your foot for your brake. It is objectively safer to be able to cruise through a school zone than not.
T9? I want an entire slide out keyboard, I'd be able to type so much more quickly. Apple should have a back button, I'm surprised they are missing such a basic feature.
you mean a back button on an android-style navigation bar? no thanks, just let me swipe from the right side
Any Android phone can be configure with a swipe from any direction as long as you are hitting the bottom part of the screen, and can be configure to either home, recent apps or back
Can someone clarify since I've only used android phones. With android gestures swiping from either edge acts as a back button. this is not the case for iOS?
@@htsunmiku sometimes it is the case, depends on the app generally, but most of the time there is a back button built into apps at the top left that linus mentioned
@@htsunmiku only swiping from the left edge triggers the back gesture. And it’s not universal. Some apps can disable it and you can’t use it to go to the home screen from an app
At least on desktop, being able to mold your workflow to the way you work SHOULD be the way everything works. It's for this reason that I like the way Linux does things, that GNOME and KDE and other DEs give you a ton of control over how the desktop behaves is amazing! Both Windows and MacOS let you do SOME things but not others, I like some of those and not others. The desktop paradigm in general works, but innovation happens in these Linux DEs, that just isn't happening in the duopoly desktops.
Otherwise, the phone paradigm isn't set yet, but personally, I vastly prefer the choices that Android gives, while iOS is far more "you work OUR WAY OR NO WAY!!!"
As a designer, and a teacher - I can tell you that Linus is wrong about the cruise control idea:
The whole point of not allowing cruise control is not a mechanical/coverage issue, it’s a psychological one.
When CC is engaged, often times, people’s minds tend to drift and not focus on the need for changing speeds/watching t out for pedestrians.
Mentally, it FORCES you to pay more attention to the pedestrian/school zones.
The concept of driving “the speed limit” in a school zone is also kind of a fallacy. The truth is, mentally, people usually drive much slower than the posted speeds, especially when there are kids around: instead of focusing on “what is my speed” (which is what Linus incorrectly thinks that people do when they are in a school zone) instead, they are aware of their surroundings, and paying more attention. That’s the whole point.
In addition, not everyone (frankly) is as attentive at driving as Linus is saying he is. So many people would blow right through things if they had CC at lower speeds. It is objectively better from a mental and performance standpoint to NOT allow CC at lower speeds.
I’m with Linus on a lot of things, but here, he is incorrect.
The kind of driver you're describing, arguably should have their driver's license taken away until they redo their driver education.
@@ShadowFalcon yup, but that's the point of good design: to sometimes protect people when they are not at their best/most attentive. (Trait 3: systematic risk management)
Also, if we were going to take away the license for folks who are like this, it'd be over 80% of the population.
@@TheManoDestra
I don't see an issue with taking away the driver's license of 80% of the population, because frankly, they need better driver training.
EDIT:
Or, failing that.
Implement the same system for traffic offenses they have in Finland, and make it proportional to your income (or net worth or whatever).
@@ShadowFalcon a lot of people do need to become better drivers, but your rationale doesn't make any sense.
Not allowing cruise control is literally a safety risk management design asset.
I would argue (with that logic) that cruise control would be the thing that needs to be removed. It takes control away from you, put the control on the car, rather than the driver.
Cruise control is making things easier for longer distances, without having to make lots and lots of different types of speed changes. It also does help fuel economy, so there's an asset.
However, if the logic is that the Driver should have perfect control and focus 100% of the time, then cruise control is literally a liability, and shouldn't be on the car at all. (I don't fundamentally believe this, it's just following the logic to its final conclusion.)
The truth is people are clumsy, accident, prone, and prone to mistakes. The whole point of disabling cruise control at low speeds is to help force people to focus more attention when they're driving slow speeds, potentially with fast changes that needs to happen, especially around school zones. There have been tons of studies on this, and plenty of safety testing that has gone into this as well, which is one of the reasons why the car manufacturer make it so you don't have cruise at low speeds.
Linus is entitled to his opinion, but it is inherently subjective, regardless of the fact that he says it's objective. . It's not. All he has is his singular experience, versus all the testing and manufacturers designs tests that have gone into it.
Also, I dare you to try and take 80% of peoples drivers licenses away. Hint: it won't go over well in the US or Canada.
@@TheManoDestra
Cruise control, allows you to take focus away from your instrument cluster, thereby allowing you to focus completely on the traffic situation ahead.
If people aren't focusing on the traffic situation ahead, then arguably, they should face the full consequences of the law.
After watching the video with the cruise control comment I added Linus' technique to my own driving. I feel a lot better driving in school (and other low speed zones for pedestrian/child safety) because I don't have to look at my dashboard. Props to Toyota cruise control for supporting speeds as low as 20 mph, at least in my 2001 Corolla.
For windows search there is thankfully a workaround to fix it, in group policy you enable "Do not allow web search". Though MS should definitely just put this in the settings and not hide it away like that.
Wow didn't know about this. Will try this out.
Does this work in Win10 Home?
Mine didn't work in group policy. Had to change it in the registry.
The answer to Google and Windows choosing to go to the web before local contacts/files is simple. More traffic to their sites looks good for them, and always gives them a tiny bit more data about you to sell
You make a good point, which might be valid.
I genuinely thought T9 dialing was just the number autocomplete, I had no idea I could type out numbers to represent letters like that. Thank you!
I agree with the cruise control in school zones. It keeps your attention more on the school zone instead of speed. And a tip for Android: If you type it enough and then voice text though, it'll eventually learn. It doesn't take long but for some reason, you have to do the text first to have it add to the dictionary. Then voice text prioritizes. Then voice calling works.
How much attention is really required to drive roughly 35? Is that a mental load for you?
Well the problem is that some cars have very reactive pedals, i can't decide if I want to drive 25 or 40 because low speeds are very sensitive and a little 10% press will send me to 60 in no time, I use cruise control for that., far safer.
@@XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD Or the opposite is a problem. At work I get to drive a lot of turbo-diesel vans that have pretty slow-responding engines, but do actually have ok power once the turbo spools. The issue I find is that any given throttle position has a range of power and response depending on how long you've held that throttle position, which means the speed tends to wander.
@@__-fm5qv kind of what i wanted to say, but you explained it far better.
yea, i live in a area that had children just randomly charging in front of your car and stop you for fun, sometimes in the very late night, because they think is funny or something, I had to drive really slowly lol.
Hey Linus! As a writer, I personally try to look at the meaning of words very precisely so here’s my take on “objectiveness”.
Something like, “USB 3.0 is objectively better than USB 2.0” is fine. You can actually measure something quantifiable in this instance: speed. But how do you determine if a process is “objectively better”? I believe people are perceiving you as being condescending when you say something like that is “objectively better” because it isn’t directly measurable.
A UX researcher like myself could “measure” that in the sense of how many people in usability tests think it’s better, but even those methods aren’t perfect. The product team is made of fallible humans that might design a study wrong or not think up a particular design.
One key principle of user-centered design is that the product team (or really anyone in the company) is not the user. We’re biased by our expertise even if we, too, use the products. Additionally, even if you are a user, you are one user that belongs to a particular user group. The reality of development is that not all possible user groups can be prioritized so companies will choose whichever ones impact their bottom line the most to satisfy.
The point is, you do have logic and reasoning for why you think something is better. And you even have strong knowledge to back it up. But you should be careful about saying something is objectively better if it can’t be measured. Because that’s actually subjective.
On the cruise control issue, 40km/h has been the minimum speed for it in every car I’ve ever driven. That’s also the sped limit in school zones in my country. I have used it a couple of times in long school zones with little traffic around. But I don’t typically use cruise control in such low speed areas because there’s usually other traffic around and I would often have to cancel it to match the speed of the driver in front.
It might be more practical in a car with adaptive cruise control and/or a lower minimum speed for using it.
Adaptive cruise control with 20 mph set low, but will go as low as it needs to with adaptive on. Works great in parent pick up line at school.
Cruise control in the early days where not capable of low speed cruise. It was just as much a technical decision as a legal one. Pay attention to the road!!! Do not engage it at low speeds dangerous!! You have to do it yourself! Laughable today when people allow self driving at all. But it was very likely a real problem having the cruise system work at low speeds in the early days. And it was new tech and if the thing did something wrong it can do real harm at slow speeds slamming the gas at a school zone or whatever. At 80km/h it is just scary but very likely the driver hitting the brake disengage the cruise control that is not managing the gas as it should.
I can totally see early cruise system being awful and right down dangerous and unable to keep a steady cruise speeds below 40km/h. And it might not be very obvious if cruise control has released or engaged at low speeds. It totally was a good call to limit it to 40km/h and over whatever for the early first adopters of cruise control. But that is not really a reason to not allow it today.
Like today computers are probobly 3x as fast and reliable to manage gas regulation to maintain a speed limit or cruise speed. Like the human feet can not be as fast as the computer updating the gas pedal position thousands of times a second or something. But early days? It is like self driving cars a long way from something flawless. Today we got gas pedals that are controlling the computer and not directly the engine. But early cruise control the gas pedal was actually still directly connected to the engine and not a computer. The cruise control was a action on the gas pedal back then and so was worse then the human at controlling the gas. Now the driver is acting on the computer system that manages the engine gas. That is a huge shift in trust and capability of the electronics. Even 1997 cars where controlled by a gas wire going to the engine. Today there is almost no car where the gas pedal is not just a xbox/PS controller trigger more or less. Like this started to be the standard in cars around 2010! Give or take 5 years.
Linus is not wrong. I can see myself speeding in a school zone without a cruise control. It is far better if I can tell the car to hold the gas for me as I probably will exceed the speed if no child is in view. And that is due to not looking at the speed meter but driving on feel and having my eyes on the road. Losing speed or looking down on the speed meter is not eco friendly or safe. And if we allow cars to self park let alone drive at all instead of the driver? Then a modern cruise system can be trusted to maintain 20km/h.
And fun fact. On some brand of lorries/trucks designed to pull wagons and trailers (total weight 60.000kg+) the cruise control might not actually disengage if you hit the brake pedal! It dose stop but ones you let of the brake?? It starts to try and clime back to the cruise speed with a delay! So even now you HAVE FOR SURE hit the brake and slowed down before a round about the lorry starts to pick up the speed back up. IT IS SCARY! WHY IN THE ACTUAL *****. I literately slammed the brakes so hard experience this for the first time, just to get back control of the vehicle. In the roundabout I rode the brakes as this was not right and was quite upset. Total loss of trust to the machine I was maneuvering.
The person I was taking over the route off where in the seat next to me explain that the cruise control had to be turned off to not pick back up after hitting the brake. It was normal for this brand of lorry. Like that is lazy driver design if cruise mode expects bake application to not be enough to turn itself off. (2014-2018 model lorry or whatever) I really REALLY do not trust self anything. Or Smart ANYTHING. It really is neater smart or self anything. It is just dangerous and asking for pointless problems.
I swapped back to an iphone just to be back on the same ecosystem as it just makes things a bit easier with my note/reminder taking (our field crews use ipads so I'm always troubleshooting on my ipad or updating files to send out) and holy moly why is their no back button. One of my many other small nitpicks is it seems to take a lot longer to send contact cards which isn't amazing. It's fine to suggest features to make small changes that benefit the end user. Luke had great comments about putting certain features a bit further out of sight from the general population. Would be a happy fella if that happen.
There is a back button, it's just a gesture so you're not wasting screen space like on Android. You swipe right at the bottom of the screen. On the iPad, you can also do a four finger swipe to the right. When I'm using my phone I don't have to think about how to go back, I just do it instantly.
This is like saying that vim is a bad text editor because you have to learn the key commands. I use vim literally every day, so I don't have to think about the commands, my fingers just do them. It's the same thing on iOS.
@@coolbugfacts1234 the problem is that android have option, you want gesture you can do that, if you prefer button you can also choose that, while in iphone it's mandatory, and not everybody like gestures (my dad and brother still hate all the gestures for any kind of navigation) giving options is the best thing to do, especially since the back gesture can interrupt in app gesture, if you don't do it properly or you're just not used to it, why does the word options just so hard for apple to figure out
@@randomvg00 every option or setting you add to a software system exponentially increases its state space. a piece of software with only 10 options, has over 1000 possible states.
@@coolbugfacts1234 it's the world strongest phone chip, with the world most efficient phone OS, and you're saying that a phone like that couldn't handle 1 more option, my old 100$ android phone can have it since 3 to 4 years ago, the problem isn't that it's too complicated or hard to do, it's apple not wanting to do it, because in their perfect world nobody wants a simple universal button over gesture or fingerprint scanner over face unlock or a sim card, but they couldn't see the actual real world that there are a bunch of people that wants it and adding these things to their product only makes these people happier and actually spends more for their product, and for some reason apple fanboys just defends them for their stupid decision of not adding simple features that a lot of people actually uses and prefers
@@randomvg00 It's not about hardware, it's about producing a reliable and well tested software system. It doesn't matter how powerful your hardware is, if the software you're writing cannot be tested.
There will always be people who want to oppose and argue, even if or when they know they are wrong.
Linus: "Call my wife"
Google: "Calling Jake"
I never knew what T9 dialing was until you explained it here, and it sounds awesome, so out of curiosity, I opened my phone to start typing to see if it has it, and it does, so now I have learned of an awesome feature my phone has that I never knew of before, thank you! You also make good points on cruise control in school zones, in many vehicles I have driven, coasting is too slow, but holding the gas at any amount is too fast (all vehicles I have driven use a cable for acceleration, I am sure drive by wire systems have a nicer acceleration curve), and with many places having speed traps, I have to monitor my speed a lot more than normal.
It's literally been T9 dialing in front of your eyes the whole time.
I think the reason 'call' commands suck is that contacts aren't sent to the cloud. voice recognition converts your voice to text in the cloud, cloud returns the string then locally, it uses that string to go through contracts. idk that's my guess as to why
I'm with Linus, cruise control allows you to concentrate on the road. If you are holding 40km/h or the car is doing it, it doesn't make a difference except when cruise control is doing it you can watch the road and not worry about speeding. Not every driver passing through the school zone is going to stop and drop off a child, especially in the 9am to 9:30 period in Australian school zones.
Yeah absolutely agree annoying that most cars stop cruise at 40km/hr. I'd love it to go much lower though as my work's standard is between 15-25km/h onsite and it's distracting to keep a car that low and watch everything going on around you.
As a person who was a long time Android user that recently switched to the iPhone 13 Pro (just for the superior video camera quality), you've hit the nail on the head for me regarding this topic. At first, I thought it was a "me" issue, but over time, it's been pretty clear that iOS is just not an intuitive experience. It's been a year and I'm low-key still dreading how its either "apples way, or no way"
I'm in a similar situation, but I switched to ipads, for better performance. Even though Android is behind in tablets, part of me still prefers it because I find android to be the more navigable OS. Also just having more options just sweetens it.
@@FireFuture-fq7if I have the samsung tab s7+ and its a super tablet, the best android tablet for sure. Samsung are propping up the android tablet market for sure. I got it for 500 GBP too
It sounds like you're experiencing a Layer 8 issue
Not defending the cruise control feature, but I honestly find it more natural to let off the gas than brake.
The contact list issue is real.
Especially when you deal with names that "don't exist" in English or spelled differently
When I saw the AirPods review I was a bit frustrated at his critiques of Apple Music but it did get me to reflect more on myself. I've been a long time Apple user, it's the only computer/smartphone system I've ever used and it probably will stay that way (at least for now). Apple has gestures so deeply integrated into their systems that they are just muscle memory to me. It's so much so that I get confused when I see non-Apple users struggle to do something that is muscle memory to me. It makes me think now though, am I just use to the way it is and I just never question how it could be changed to be better, or did they find a sweet spot that works well without the added clutter of a back button? It's most likely I'm just very use to it and is why I won't be switching to Android (among other reasons) because I don't want to take the time to unlearn muscle memory.
And the exact opposite is happening with Linus. It just comes off as never trying to understand a product and just complaining...
I kind of wonder if it is just a big brain move by Apple to make navigation and other little modifications so specific to their eco system that it purposefully frustrates any of their users if they attempt to switch to anything else.
@@TravisTheSavage And most people I know who use Android immediately disable those gestures, having any amount of failure rate to using a gesture is just inferior to a dedicated physical/digital button to do the same task.
I switched to ios and adapted pretty well in about a week. It’s not perfect but if a first time Apple user could understand how to navigate in no time, it can’t be that bad.
@@AdityaChaturvedi28 It isn't about learning the gestures though, it is about inconsistencies. Linus himself has daily driven multiple iPhones over the course of his career for months at a time. It isn't like he doesn't know what he is doing. If a gesture fails to work even 5% of the time it just compounds in to a frustrating feature. Though in my experience is feels more like 25-50% of the time, it is tedious if you don't do it just right by trying to be too fast, too slow, not long enough, etc. Just give me a damn digital button so I don't even have to think about it.
T9 is in fact the best addition to regular dialing
The people complaining about using cruise control in a school zone to stay at the speed limit are the same people who would reguarly go 10 over the speed limit in a school zone and then say its okay to speed if you are paying attention
No I don't think most of them are old enough to drive. Alot of the comments are like "oh I thought he meant auto pilot". I cannot think of any way someone who owns a car and drives it every day would make that mistake
As an iOS developer, the swipe back not working is 9/10 a developer making a janky custom UI and not following the OS’s APIs
As for the back button on the top, there is a lot of research that indicates that very few ppl use their phones one handed anymore just because of phone size. Not saying that is a good excuse but I think that definitely plays into it.
Windows search bar is actually useless. Most of the time it doesnt even bring up applications that are in the app list like minecraft. It just goes straight to bing, and opens a browser that i never use for it... just frustrating and stupid. Maybe some people like it that way, but theres not even an option to change it. Configurability its one of the best things to have for these kinds of situations. If you want it to not do something or to work slightly differently... just add a config option for it. Its not that hard, and it pleases both parties.
I switched to Android in late 2017 to early 2018, and when I switched from Apple I knew how to do nearly everything that everyone could ask me to help them with, but now I can't even figure out how to open the quick access because Apple decided that their entire UI should be controlled by 1 gesture with no button input at all. The company makes a lot of changes that are for the worse of user experience and just expects people to be happy with the changes.
Been watching Linus for many years now, all the guys working there makes this a great channel, form South Africa, If I could, I would also go work for him,
They’re in South Africa?
@@Jo_Mama710 not what he said
10:00 The classic "lol i trol u" comic.
8:35 there you have it. the issue is not with you or your methods of doing or explaining things. the base issue is that some people are just plain stupid and no matter what you say or do that will never change.
Linus Please keep sharing your unfiltered thoughts, that is what we are here for!
you hit the nail at 7:30 it’s the passion that comes out a bit forceful to some individuals who feel the opposite to you that is causing this reaction. i feel if you were not yourself 😅 and put a lot more empathy it may and i say may just get your message across to that type of audience. be yourself you can’t please everyone, trust me i know 😊
doing cruise in school zone may lead some drivers to be a bit lax during that zone.. it’s not autopilot however the driver may go in autopilot zone… regulations are designed for the safety of kids in school zone. so if there is a small even 1% risk then it’s not worth it. I feel you’re not looking for alternatives to your opinion within yourself, you are in a position that either you don’t have people questioning you or you’ve gotten so confident you stopped questioning yourself
Man, i didn't know about T9 dialing. Just tried it, it's an awesome feature!
Thank you for explaining T9 dialing I've never used it that way. I had no idea you could dial the contact letters! Super cool
We have a new lease on life.
@@Nersius ha yeah Ive been using Android my entire life never knew I could do that. I always just dialed a few digits of the phone number or searched for the person in contacts
@@Woof_Bark how to do that?
how please explain?
@@dlnrdn3667 you know how there are letters on the numbers of your phones dialer? Instead of typing in a few digits of the number you're trying to call just spell out the word. For example my wife is in my phone as wife 9433 (w I f e) pulls up her number even though none of those digits are in her number.
I had a teenager step out in front of my truck in a 25mph zone a couple of weeks ago.. even though I was going the speed limit, it happened so fast that I barely had time to react and was able to avoid him. Having cruise control on and my foot ready on the brake would have been a good option if I wasn't making zig-zagging through downtown
The cruise control thing freaked me out before you explained it, because I'm used to thinking of cruise control in the context of freeway driving, where a large part of your brain just kinda turns off, but it actually makes a lot of sense if you're able to continue to pay enough attention. On the freeway I actually disengage cruise control if I'm in a complicated situation.
I tend to disengage it on the freeway too when the speed is inconsistently changing due to traffic conditions. When I can just chug along at a constant speed, I leave it on either on freeway or normal roads.
I have never once considered turning on cruise control in a school zone. Like a chat message said, I don't have multi mile roads without stop signs where cruise control would make sense. In my car, cruse control disables itself if you press the brake, and you need to press a button to re-enable.
I use to be that way on freeways and still am, my now that my current car auto brakes during traffic and auto accell, I just leave my foot over the brake for emergencies, but the car can handle the slow down and speed up of traffic pretty well on it's own.
That being said, I live in a place with snow and winter driving is and will always remain a completely different animal. But that's not the convo at hand, of course.
Cause on the freeway accelerating and braking are two ways to solve a problem. In a school zone braking is probably always the only option.
I am a MacOS and iOS user. Neither is even close to perfect. I have huge gripes with each, though I also prefer each to their alternatives. I usually agree with your criticisms of Apple products, or if I don't, at least I can respect where you're coming from because you explain your criticisms. Just keep on doing what you're doing, which is being honest. You can never please everyone.
what do you not like about macOS?
I would agree. As an Apple user, sure there are issues and features that are missing or poorly implemented sometimes, but as a whole I much rather prefer the MacOS experience over Windows. I have had to use windows in the past and it wasn’t an issue of adapting to the system, there were just FAR to many bugs/problems/auto updates/viruses/and poor stability. While apples has its specific ways of doing things that I sometimes disagree with, I truly don’t understand how Microsoft with the biggest desktop OS market share produces such a flawed operating system and that everyone just accepts it… again this is down to fundamental and more serious issues for me.
I had a similar debate with an old boss of mine because they wanted to buy a truck (F550) without cruise control. I told him that’s a bad idea because you spend more time focusing on doing the speed limit, rather then checking your load securement in the mirrors and paying attention to the vehicles around you. You end up speeding up higher then the limit and slowing down more then the speed limit the entire drive (8 hours a day) because you’re pulling 40-50k pounds and if you’re not holding the throttle exactly where it need to be you’re constantly speeding up or slowing down.
Honestly I think this falls under the category of differentiation of a product. If user experiences were more universal then it can become a real choice problem even if it was just a setting buried in vague menus. It might not be popular but it’s incumbent upon the manufacture to create their version of a user experience. Sometimes that means supporting “must have” functions, other times that means bucking the trend and using something unique to your device. It’s not objectively right or wrong in most cases, except in instances of design that is non-functional or bad to the extent of negatively impacting sales. To date I’m not sure Apple qualifies for either of those.
As for the cruise control issue, I think it’s more basic than that. Put simply people will always react negatively to the idea of using any sort of automation for dangerous machines around children. That’s it. Frankly it might be safer but the fact that any control is turned over to automation is the problem people are upset about. This is evident from the poor examples they give because they adamantly know in their minds that something unsafe is occurring but they can’t really find any credible way to express it.
Ultimately as a reviewer you need to express yourself and your thoughts on things. They won’t always align with that of your audience but the issue in my mind isn’t that they don’t align but the absolute terms you use to describe them. Saying something is objectively bad or wrong is very absolute, and should be reserved for things that are mostly beyond dispute. Power supplies that are catching fire or exploding, that’s objectively bad. A UI that differs from your expectations or ideals, that’s unfortunate but not necessarily objectively bad.
Thanks for being in the rare part of the audience that actually understands the situation. Or maybe those are plenty too, but they don't necessarily comment, leaving the comment section to largely LTT bootlickers.
I would argue that a lack of customizability such as seen in the iPhone is inherently bad just from an accessibility point of view. It's your device you should be able to adapt your own user experience to your needs. you can do this with Android in many ways. If iPhone and macOS could actually provide more options even if it's a pain to find behind their usual interface. that's got to be a good thing.
Thanks to this conversation I now know what T9 dialing is and after 2 test find it better than any other way of calling. This is why I watch LTT, on a regular basis I learn something new that is actually useful in my daily life.
Had no idea about the name of the function I use everyday since I own android smartphones. Had it Huawei's EMUI, and now on Samsung's OneUI
Totally agree on the low speed cruise control thing. I've never had a speeding fine partly because of that. My old car wouldn't let you use it under 40km/h and it drove me batty.
100% agree with the cruise control idea in school zones for faster reaction times. Honestly was laughing when you went over the comments because the way you described the situation to handle is literally something you have to learn when getting a Class A,B,or C CDL.
I’m not disputing you, but I’ve never heard the use of ACC in cars in advocated for use in school zones as a safety measure.
I was taught to modulate speed and drive defensively when, say, near a school based on possible dangers such as young children or reduced visibility.
People are less likely to do this for emerging threats with CC as there it’s a conscious threshold, obviously if a child runs out then you will hit the brake, but you should have been driving defensively , sensed the situation, slowed down and covered the brake.
Yeah Linus, keep your opinions going with computers but you're objectively wrong about cruise control while driving in a school zone.
Be dogmatic but accept that a car company can't design cruise control based on a potential safe way of using it when it also creates many more unsafe ways of using it. Cruise control was designed and approved for highway driving under ideal conditions, anything else would need new government approval.
Once again the cruise control (CC) feature is something that a lot of people will fight over because unlike you, most people don't look at cruise control like that, they look at it as a form of being able to relax a bit and that's something you don't want in a school zone or in wtv places you might need it under 50km/h.
Besides that (and this might be a european problem) we use a lot of manual gear cars (idk if that's the correct term) and when you try to set up cruise control and you have to deal with a manual transmission things can get complicated and people will most definitely get caught up in "all these things". I think this might be just an industry standard, but even though I understand your point of having cruise control under 50km/h, it makes a lot of sense, I don't think it applies to all of the people and the relaxation most people are looking for in CC is not meant to be used in a school zone.
Manufacturers have to think in most of the worst-case scenarios and if you think of a normal distribution you have more or less 50% of people below the average IQ (not a good way of measuring it but it's just to make a point) level, if you consider the bottom 5%, most have a drivers license and if 1% of them are those people who look at cruise control as a form of relaxation while driving and cause accidents, those are too many accidents, even tho it might help other people. The thing is that this might help you and most people, but if it affects negatively some they won't implement it because the risk of children getting injured or killed is never worth the risk and for those like you that want to use it in a good way, you can keep doing the same you're doing already
@@tiagoqueiros2860 I would not be surprised that CC required a minimum of 30mph /50kph - it seems a sensible minimum. My car has a speed limiter which I use for 20mph zones (we have a lot of in London (uk)) which seems more suited.
@@RedBentley He's not wrong about cruise control and cars I drive can be set to cruise below 20mph. It should not be and is not just for highway driving.
Voice Controling Devices
Granted it´s been about 6 years since I did this test but I was genuinely surprised.
So due to my job I had a Windows Phone, an Google Pixel and an iPhone to test our Software with and one day I decided to test the three voice assistants (OkGoogle, Siri and Cortana) with tests as playing music, creating tasks and calendar events and I found OkGoogle to be quite unusable, Siri was okay-ish with a lot of issues and Cortana actually worked almost flawless. You could just tell her to create an event at time x and invite person y with a reminder at time z in real speech and it did just that. I still have issues with Siri today on my iPhone 14... weirdly enough it does work perfectly when I tell her to play music while cycling. I guess she´s into that.
You can't appreciate what you don't have. Working in cell phones is mindblowing what some customers think carriers/manufacturers consider "normal" or "standard".
Same logic when cell phones came out, "why would I need to call someone on the go? If I really need to, I'll find a pay phone"
There is standards for application and UI/UX design, you could have your team do a small investigation on the subject and review your opinion against the standard, release the investigation and your points on it in a small document. This shows you have done the work to back your opinion (beyond empirical knowledge) and it allows you to more or less forget the type of comments you have mentioned unless they are sufficiently backed by investigation or are sufficiently popular.
On the braking subject I think you would probably need an experiment to back that something is "objectively better", the amount of people that get distracted without having to pay attention to the accelerator might be higher than 0. In the matter of how to get your point across to a greater amount of people, maybe a negotiation expert can help you break the walls on people's minds, I read this book called "Never split the difference" it is fool of advise that have worked for me.
They get bothered because you, in giving critical feedback about design, are "attacking" their identity they've carefully constructed for the purpose of social clout. If they objectively enjoy iOS more I think they would be able to handle criticism as you're obviously not directing it at them
Can confirm linus's cover the brake argument is valid. Motorcycle riders use this exact technique when riding in areas that present a higher risk of collision, those fractions of a second can make the difference between life and death
Oh, cruise control to hold the speed! At first I thought Linus wanted to use some kind of autopilot in a school zone. That would have been a PR nightmare, lol.
Linus mentioned something about icon placement on Macs. The desktop has many sorting options and has since, I think the pre-OSX days. Command + J or View -> Show View Options in the Finder gives you a window with desktop options. One of which is "Sort by", which you can pick "None" and place icons anywhere you want, without the snap-to-grid. My personal setup uses snap-to-grid, but no sorting by name, file type, etc. and this lets me move files all over the desktop I want, putting them wherever. I just prefer them on the right-side of the desktop.
I do think that Linus should keep his opinions or suggestions to better a product in the review. Otherwise what is the point of the review? When I watch a review, I want to know what the individual has to say about the product, positive or negative. I want to know issues they have with it and any solutions they think could make it better.
The car cruise control thing, I think people assume that this is an autonomous drive system? When cruise control has been a thing since long before self-driving was even tested. All cruise control does is set a speed, allowing the driver to not have to keep a foot on the gas to make the car move. It also lets the driver to hover the foot over the break, in case of a sudden reason to stop, such as a person darting out into the street.
I think he was talking about not being able to put app icons wherever you want on ios, it has to be the next one in the grid instead of being able to say, have just four apps icons in each corner of the screen.
@@SkeletonGuts Yeah he probably ment IOS since that was the target of the main rant. And just said desktop cause he was heated and not thinking straight
@@SkeletonGuts But he said "desktop", which suggests a computer. If he said "home screen", I'd agree with that.
@@Lord_Mangoat but he makes the gesture with his thumb like he's using a phone
Covering the break is very commonly used in emergency vehicle operations. When you're driving as fast as possible through denser areas by necessity and need to be ready to stop, while also worrying about the scene you're heading to, it's really something you need to do. If you see something happening ahead and don't start to apply the brake, that's objectively bad driving
The problem is people want to argue no matter what. It doesn't matter what side you're one, or what your position is, someone will argue. A lot of people will change their position day-to-day just to argue with people.
Moral of the Story, you can't make everyone happy and people do not understand we all have different point of views xD
You doing great Linus, keep up the good work.
Yeah, that's the part of the story that Linus would like you to focus on. The other part is the title of the video that commend was made on is "I hate giving Apple my money", so part of the cause if not the root cause that made that person comment that opinion of theirs (not saying that comment is wrong or right, just saying it's more negative than the average comment) is Linus himself.