Howdy guys! I've spent the past 4 months diving almost as deep as you guys dwell into iOS and its adjacent dev communities - originally in the name of reviewing my 12 Pro Max, but now I think it's turned into some greater reflection on the history of this most influential consumer tech thing as I have witnessed it throughout the entirety of my adult life. I was 14 when I got my first gen iPhone - now, I'm
Here's the crux of the issue: I use an external keyboard with my iPhone… a lot, and I have been doing so since Apple first introduced support for it. A beatup magic keyboard and my iPhone 4S was the entirety of my personal computing setup for 5 semesters of community college. I have gotten bewildered looks in coffee shops and classrooms. I have started a lifetime's worth of conversations with different devs' support inboxes, requesting documentation of a given app's keyboard shortcuts support for iPhone specifically (as in, which iPad shortcuts work and which don't,) and always end up writing the document myself by methodically testing one by one down the iPad list and marking down the handful or so that usually work. Most recently, the Tapbots guys got back to my email asking why using the F key to favorite Tweets had inexplicably disappeared