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I'm in a non-English speaking country. My best guess is that all normal users buy a computer with the local language, but all technologically-minded users buy
by edanm 16y ago
I'm in a non-English speaking country.
My best guess is that all normal users buy a computer with the local language, but all technologically-minded users buy an English Windows (like me, for example). It drives me mad whenever I visit Google on a browser whose cookies I just cleared.
"I personally think rewarding ignorant behavior (to the cost of educated behavior!) is a bad strategy."
Totally disagree. Most users couldn't care less about why things work the way they do. They just want them to work. Google's job is to make the average users have the most seamless experience possible, a job at which they excel.
- borisk 16y ago"Most users couldn't care less about why things work the way they do. They just want them to work. Google's job is to make the average users have the most seamless experience possible, a job at which they excel." OMG this is SOOO stupid. Hackers will get annoyed enough and will move to other search engines and development platforms. And after some time average users will follow. This is exactly the twisted (non)thinking coming from Microsoft these days. Lets make an OS for 80 yo grandpas. Why not remove the drive free space indication in explorer, it confuses old ladies (and the same explorer ships with Windows Server ...). How bright do you think is the future of Windows and Microsoft?
- loewenskind 16y ago>Totally disagree. Most users couldn't care less about why things work the way they do. And this is exactly what should not be catered to. Especially when it's simple to show users how to fix this. By jumping through such hoops to guess what is correct they basically force everyone else to do the same thing or else appear to be less "friendly" than google. This kind of thinking is exactly what got us the HTML/CSS misery we have today.