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what ever happened to the principle of least astonishment? people are currently used to disabling wifi meaning disabling wifi.

• acranox 9y ago
  Seriously. This is a neat feature, but completely violates POLA.
  • remarkEon 9y ago
    POLA?
    • grzm 9y ago
      Principle of least astonishment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
      • remarkEon 9y ago
        Ahh thank you.
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  • coldtea 9y ago
    Depends on the users. If they're like most I know, they'll be scratching their heads why e.g. AirDrop doesn't work when they have the wi-fi turned off. So this could be less astonishing for them.
• userbinator 9y ago
  Or, to reuse a variation of an old saying, "off means off".
• coldtea 9y ago
  >what ever happened to the principle of least astonishment? I dunno, they actually measured real world usage patterns from millions of real users and did usability tests on their own premises, and found that this is the least astonishing for the majority, who doesn't need to wonder why AirDrop doesn't work or why their Apple Watch is not connecting?
  • amigoingtodie 9y ago
    Proof? Is this how they conceived the touchbar, too?
    • coldtea 9y ago
      >Proof? As I said, I dunno.