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I can't recall any software company who rolled back an upgrade. UI upgrades take a lot of resources and overhaul, they're also UX-tested, involve marketing ops,
by tajen 9y ago
I can't recall any software company who rolled back an upgrade. UI upgrades take a lot of resources and overhaul, they're also UX-tested, involve marketing ops, etc: If they haven't got the message before, companies prefer to risk dying than cancelling their attempt to pivot.
Look at Ubuntu's Unity. Apple's emoji bar. Microsoft's Windows 8.1 tiles.
- yorwba 9y agoUbuntu is moving back to the Gnome shell, I think. So sometimes companies do get the message. (Although I personally like Unity, so the change is going to be a bit annoying.)
- emilsedgh 9y agoBut not because people want them to go back. They are going back because Ubuntu is investing less and less into desktop and consumer products and more into enterprises.
- mathw 9y agoI consider Windows 10 to represent a significant step back from the Windows 8 UI ideas on Microsoft's part. Windows 10 makes a genuine effort to come to a system which can adapt for touch and non-touch UIs, rather than just using the former all the time.
- majewsky 9y agoTwo of these three examples were completely or partially rolled back.