Most annoying thing EVER

Was writing an email on the iPad, talking about the soon-to-be almond blossom, the forthcoming cherry blossom, and of course the plentiful Apple blossom.
Sodding iOS insists upon capitalising the word “Apple”. As it is doing in this message. Gah!

I’m off to enjoy my pasta and watch 35 sai no koukousei.
Night, guys!

insists upon capitalising the word “Apple”.

Rumour has it that they considered prompting for “God”, but disagreement from their marketing department eventually won over.

Rumour has it that they considered prompting for “God”

Hi, G here, you called?
Go to Settings, General, Keyboard, Auto-Correction and switch it off.

Except that disables all autocorrection, which is unhelpful.

iOS is the worst kind of “intelligent” software when it comes to autocorrection, where as ever “intelligent” means “frustrating and broken”. What’s really needed is an option along the lines of, “Never change a word that’s in the dictionary”. For example, when I say “food”, I don’t mean “good”, or vice versa. When I say “now” I don’t mean “not”. And when I say “apple” I don’t (necessarily) mean “Apple”.

Under the bugfest of iOS 7, it’s even worse as now iOS is arrogant enough to go back in your sentence and change words earlier than the most recently typed, so unless you double proof read everything you type before sending/saving it, you can end up with some horrible autocorrect typos that are entirely machine-made. Sadly, the keyboard hitpoint calculations have either changed or there are bugs in the touch screen driver now, to the extent that typing accurately without autocorrection is next to impossible.

it’s even worse as now iOS is arrogant enough to go back in your sentence and change words earlier than the most recently typed

Yes! Sometimes, if I have “blah blah, blah” and I want an apostrophe for possession or somesuch, iOS will go back and change the “,” to an “!”. Which is just utter nonsense.
I also found the method to throw away the learned dictionary… doesn’t work. I do this on my phone periodically (as these things seem to learn typos more rapidly than real words!).

Sadly, the keyboard hitpoint calculations have either changed or there are bugs in the touch screen driver now, to the extent that typing accurately without autocorrection is next to impossible.

Well, given the number of asinine security flaws in iOS7 (get past the fancy screen lock with little effort in the original, the more recent SSL issues, and another I don’t recall – something to do with AirDrop?), I wonder how much time was spent making sure the code works and how much was spent removing the pretty-pretty from iOS6?

I still can’t believe the camera/video has no size options, no exposure and/or focus lock, and no quality settings. You’re stuck with 5mpix (rear) or 2mpix (front) in normal aspect or trimmed to be “square” instagramish; and HD1080 video.¹ It’s be nice to drop video down a bit (720P or maybe even WVGA), it does burn up nearly 2MB/sec!
But no. God forbid users having a choice! It’s now even that the more recent updates auto-disable “HDR” after a certain time has elapsed, so you must remember to turn it back on…

Oh. And I registered my WiFi AP with the public database months ago. Apple Tech support told me it’ll take a month or two for this to percolate through Apple’s system (despite somehow, GPS-enabled iPhones can push this sort of thing fairly quickly). Surprise! iOS still cannot find me. But it is worse – there are times when Siri and Apple’s Maps have no idea where I am, and Google’s Map says “dude, you’re in McDonald’s, right here!” with a blue circle to show it. I suppose I need to install iTunes into reality in order to get Location Services to even consider working…
<sigh>

¹ iPad Mini – other devices may vary depending on hardware capabilities.

Apple’s system (despite somehow, GPS-enabled iPhones can push this sort of thing fairly quickly)

Ah, the push network. You can talk to Apple and get the details of connecting in (to their setup) for certain inside your enterprise facilities. They are even gracious enough to tell you the IP range you need to allow connection through your firewall: 17.0.0.0/8¹ Actually, if I bother spending the time looking at the logs I’m sure specific addresses will be apparent.

BTW. Why anyone would want to use the legendary random location entertainment system Apple call a map system is beyond me.

¹ I have a number of answers, none suitable for public use.

BTW. Why anyone would want to use the legendary random location entertainment system Apple call a map system is beyond me.

I don’t. But I would like Siri (the few times I use it) to reply with sensible answers instead of “I don’t know where you are”, and failing to understand “I am at home”¹ or the like, with increasing numbers of expletives as the responses get dumber and dumber – like, yeah, let’s just give up trying and instead go ask Google to define “at home”²…

¹ The system knows my home address (Settings→Contacts→My Info), it isn’t my fault if it can’t put two and two together…

² Sad face, it missed this place: http://www.cafe-athome.com/intro/