How is it that Apple OSes are so smart that they are unable to conceive of the possibility that any ten-digit number might be anything other than a phone number, while being so stupid that when someone gives a fragment of their address it can’t interpret it into a complete and properly formatted address when you add it to a vCard?
And if you try to hack it by asking it to give you driving directions there, it makes copying the properly formatted address completely impossible? It’s text, but you cannot select it for some reason.
It has occurred to nobody on Apple’s Contacts app team to offer to complete or reformat a copied and pasted full address. They just stupidly leave the whole thing on the top street address line.
And it is obvious that this because it is an obviously useful commonsense feature, beneath the dignity of a hyperclever product manager to implement. That’s the kind of “faster horse” any ordinary person could ask for. (Proto-Nazi Henry Ford allegedly once said “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”)
Apple only wants to shock us with the delight of transcendental desires that only they can imagine into existence.
All this infuriating missmartness has awakened in me a longing for wiser dumbness.