Obviously it depends on the app. Most apps I use do it intelligently. Maybe I am avoiding the dumb ones? I suspect your developer friend is more like the typ

Obviously it depends on the app. Most apps I use do it intelligently. Maybe I am avoiding the dumb ones? I suspect your developer friend is more like the typical developer. In that they never thought about that. I cannot tell you how many apps / web sites I have used where it is obvious that no one ever took a critical look at the user interaction. They have the pretty picture but not the functional interaction. My biggest bitch is the things that ask you to create, yet another password. Then they do not tell you what BS rules they have until you violate them. In the back of my mind I hear jerk laughing "oh no thats just not right, what wrong with you, you need Upper Lower number symbol, at least 3 of each, not repeating not adjacent on keyboard or ordinarily a note from your mother etc etc...." WTF why can they not list the rules up front. <thank you I feel better now getting that off my chest :)>