I dunno, I find the iOS keyboard to be higher in my list of annoyances. While typing, there's only one possible word that can be the autocomplete e term? And I have to look up, stop typing, and hit that tiny "x" if I want to override it? (I've overridden the autocomplete for "it's" and its so many times that it's apparently given up trying to autocorrect for that)
And who thought that shaking the device to Undo a simple typo (which the requires you to stop convulsing so that you can press OK or Cancel) was at all natural? I've yet to meet someone who intuitively figured out that feature. I had my iPad for a year before I realized it was my accidental sudden movement while typing that was triggering the Undo.
In terms of total annoyance accumulated in day to day use, I'd say the iOS keyboard is by far the dumbest UI pattern
>I've yet to meet someone who intuitively figured out that feature.
At the risk of being called a Philistine, I think there are a lot of things about the iOS UI that are not made obvious or convenient, even to dudes used to using a lot of tech and nothing is done to teach the user. A rollout of phones from work meant that a tech-savvy friend and myself recently got iPhones around the same time, we trade tales of hidden UI interactions all the time. I maintain that this phone is the mythical device that can fulfill my every last wish of tech, but I just have to find the right number of fingers to hold on the screen as I flip the vibrate switch back and forth to activate the mode that makes it do what I want.
I'm using an iPhone for about a week now after selling my S3 and waiting for my Nexus 4 to come. Even now I still haven't internalized this behavior. It feels very unnatural and taxing to use.
And who thought that shaking the device to Undo a simple typo (which the requires you to stop convulsing so that you can press OK or Cancel) was at all natural? I've yet to meet someone who intuitively figured out that feature. I had my iPad for a year before I realized it was my accidental sudden movement while typing that was triggering the Undo.
In terms of total annoyance accumulated in day to day use, I'd say the iOS keyboard is by far the dumbest UI pattern