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I can guarantee that no human being on earth can confidently setup bluetooth on all devices. And that's the issue, these one-off pairings. Thing is, anything t

I can guarantee that no human being on earth can confidently setup bluetooth on all devices. And that's the issue, these one-off pairings. Thing is, anything that literally takes more than 3 seconds is a disaster. In 2008, Apple introduced iPhone and promised us a future where everything "just works," and where the user and UX are paramount. Taking stock of the last decade, we're basically back to The Inmates are Running the Asylum. http://a.co/d/59GsyEk http://a.co/d/59GsyEk I think it's cyclic. The rejected "IBM guy" in the short sleeved shirt portrayed in the Steve Jobs biopic was once the innovative young turk. Now, the typical mobile and web app developer are that "IBM guy," just with a different set of subcultural aesthetics and a different over elaborated UX language which has left ordinary users behind. It's very telling that about half the time, I start getting hidden contempt from developers when I give them feedback. They're never wrong. I'm obviously deficient and dim. Never mind that I'm a programmer, and I'm pretty darn good at predicting how fellow engineers think. About half the time, that's where the developer starts from. No questions. No curiosity. It's just like in the old days when the command line was the fancy new easier interface. It's the same as long after GUI interfaces hit a wider public and the public started grousing about computer help desks. (Directed to the 3rd party reader: Don't be that programmer. Seek not so much to be understood, as to understand.)

Wowfunhappy 8y ago
> Thing is, anything that literally takes more than 3 seconds is a disaster. And just to add onto this, the problem isn't that Bluetooth pairing takes three seconds, per se. The problem is that we already had an instantaneous, reliable, and universal solution. In it's place is an option that may be better in some ways (namely, wires are gone), but is worse in many others. And for what? A tiny sliver of extra volume within the phone?

Wowfunhappy 8y ago

> Thing is, anything that literally takes more than 3 seconds is a disaster. And just to add onto this, the problem isn't that Bluetooth pairing takes three seconds, per se. The problem is that we already had an instantaneous, reliable, and universal solution. In it's place is an option that may be better in some ways (namely, wires are gone), but is worse in many others. And for what? A tiny sliver of extra volume within the phone?