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Yep - and this model generally works because when it comes down to it choice sucks. I'd rather have a high quality thing with good defaults than a thousand dif

Yep - and this model generally works because when it comes down to it choice sucks. I'd rather have a high quality thing with good defaults than a thousand different things to choose from. Ultimately the best would be a combination where you have high quality software with sane defaults that also allows a power user to make changes when necessary, but in practice it's hard to do both without tradeoffs that cause you to end up with neither. This doesn't mean I don't like playing around with linux or that everything Apple does is high quality (looking at you Apple Music), but generally reducing choices a user is required to make is a good thing.

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ProAm 10y ago
> I'd rather have a high quality thing with good defaults than a thousand different things to choose from You're a one off edge case though. There is a line between flexibility and lack of control.
- simonh 10y ago
  Are all Apple's customers one off edge cases? That's an awful lot of one offs.
  - ProAm 10y ago
    He was complaining about an odd one off edge case of debating that quality must come at the cost of flexibility....
khedoros1 10y ago
Given the exclusive choice between the two options, I'd rather have a thousand things to choose from. Chances are that many of those choices will suit my needs better than the one "quality thing with good defaults". I'd consider the "quality thing" as a baseline, or a starting point. From there, if something bothers me enough, I can look for an alternative that doesn't have that problem. If nothing bothers me that much, then I guess that the defaults were good for me.