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I think the apple bashing was sarcasm and your comment is sillier than the article. It wasn't the primary UI, the primary UI just shows the percentage. Its usef
by tmd83 10y ago
I think the apple bashing was sarcasm and your comment is sillier than the article. It wasn't the primary UI, the primary UI just shows the percentage. Its useful for a lot of user to know some expected runtime given their current usage and now that is inaccessible for a whole lot of regular user. The only thing they needed to make it not confusing to the user was to change 'Time remaining' word to 'Estimated time remaining'.
The only thing apple's change did was remove a useful feature from users and maybe make it harder to notice battery performance regression (not that I'm sure if there was any with the latest macbook).
- abritinthebay 10y agoThe battery indicator menu in the main menu bar isn't primary UI? That's a novel argument.
- tmd83 10y agoIts not what people look at first glance. You get the battery percentage as default. You get this when you actually want an estimate. The wrong thing apple did was calling it 'Time remaining' and not calling it in an estimate. If Microsoft or some Linux distro did this for user complaint I believe you would have been hard pressed to find anyone defending it. I'm typing this on a Macbook pro and while I think this is the best device for me for a lot of reason there so many idiotic Apple decisions out there that I have seen excused away that I'm frankly tired of it.