I've lost count of how long I've been waiting in North Austin for G Fiber to make its way to my territory. In that time, TW/Spectrum has vastly improved speeds and services. This reads as a de-facto price increase, as you can now just add YouTube TV for the low-low price of $19.95 or whatever they're charging per month. I'd say it's a cash grab, except they don't have a big enough install area for there to be any cash to grab. AT&T and the cable companies have won this battle.

If he were still alive I have no doubt the entire UX team would have been fired by now. The OP is just one example of the problems with iOS, but it hits the high points: inconsistent/incoherent behavior, non-intuitiveness, inconvenience.

My $1100 iPhone has a habit of turning on the flashlight just from me holding it or pulling it out of my pocket. I can't make it present a lock screen that ONLY offers the option to unlock without notifications, flashlight, camera, etc. The control center on one iPhone is accessed by swiping up from the bottom but on another iPhone you swipe down *from the top-right corner*, but you ALSO get to the notification center by swiping down from the top, so half the time I get the one I'm not trying to open. I can't get the phone to lock and just stay locked, because any movement or accidental touch is seen as an attempt to unlock. The facial recognition is just doo-doo and makes me miss the fingerprint every day. Trying to swipe up to switch apps fails at least 80% of the time for me, and ever since moving to iOS 11, I never know which keyboard it's going to pull up. Certainly not the last one I used. The home screen STILL won't orient itself correctly when the phone is upside-down. There are a million ways I could/would improve this, so why doesn't anyone at Apple seem to have been able to do anything about them?

Waze is a mixed blessing as it can help you navigate around traffic jams and reach your destination faster than you have any right to expect, but it also has resulted in vast amounts of traffic through neighborhoods and intersections with smaller streets and traffic controls that weren't designed to handle the number of cars suddenly being routed through them.

I have long been suspicious of Waze's algorithms. For instance, when routing around a traffic jam, does it choose different routes for different users to spread the traffic out? Does it select particular routes in order to glean traffic data from them, even though they may not be the most efficient? Do they take into account the amount of traffic for which a road or intersection is rated?

I think it behooves Waze to work with cities to identify problem traffic areas that have arisen specifically because of their users (one such intersection is right by my office, where thousands of cars are directed through a large residential neighborhood daily in order to avoid traffic backup on the highway, but that traffic is backed up from the same intersection where this flow of rerouted cars ends up rejoining the highway. The situation has made it so there's a 15-minute wait just to pull out of my office parking lot at peak times. I would like to see Waze build in some protections from situations like this, as they are actively working against the transportation design goals of municipalities everywhere.