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I've seen this with mobile phones in the 90's-2000's. Until Apple came up with the iPhone designed for the end users, the phones' buyers were the networks, not

I've seen this with mobile phones in the 90's-2000's. Until Apple came up with the iPhone designed for the end users, the phones' buyers were the networks, not the end users. The same goes for companies like LinkedIn - they are now driven by recruiters and not the end users. Thus the idiotic interface and functionality changes that basically makes it unusable [to the most of the users].

eloisant 7y ago
That's because the recruiters are the users, and professionals are just the product that LinkedIn sells.
Ma8ee 7y ago
I thought the recruiters were the end users and the rest of us were the product.
oarsinsync 7y ago
I dunno, the Nokia 3210 (and successors 3310 and 8210) were pretty good phones given the available technology at the time.
0xDEFC0DE 7y ago
Apple's iPhone also brought new UI/UX ideas and people that grow up with these phones/desktops now and judge everything by that standard vs. what was considered "working" way back when. Android and Microsoft helped too. This industry shifts fast, so it's really no surprise people come to hate the older stuff by looks alone.
- java-man 7y ago
  As someone who wrote code for two mobile handsets for two different companies in the referenced time frame, I would say there was a noticeable lack of innovation in the handset business. Except, perhaps, in Japan - where mobile handsets were way ahead in terms of design and features as compared with the U.S. Which, I think, can also be explained by the fact that the handsets in Japan were marketed to the end users as opposed to the U.S. where the buyers were the network operators.
ramraj07 7y ago
Not sure I agree. There was a lot of innovation on smartphones before the iPhone, they were just not as visionary as the iPhone was. Look up the Nokia N-Gage as an example
- java-man 7y ago
  What an awful design it was! As much as I loved simpler Nokia handsets, N-Gage is not what I would consider an innovation. A personal opinion, of course.

eloisant 7y ago

That's because the recruiters are the users, and professionals are just the product that LinkedIn sells.

Ma8ee 7y ago

I thought the recruiters were the end users and the rest of us were the product.

oarsinsync 7y ago

I dunno, the Nokia 3210 (and successors 3310 and 8210) were pretty good phones given the available technology at the time.

0xDEFC0DE 7y ago

Apple's iPhone also brought new UI/UX ideas and people that grow up with these phones/desktops now and judge everything by that standard vs. what was considered "working" way back when. Android and Microsoft helped too. This industry shifts fast, so it's really no surprise people come to hate the older stuff by looks alone.

java-man 7y ago
As someone who wrote code for two mobile handsets for two different companies in the referenced time frame, I would say there was a noticeable lack of innovation in the handset business. Except, perhaps, in Japan - where mobile handsets were way ahead in terms of design and features as compared with the U.S. Which, I think, can also be explained by the fact that the handsets in Japan were marketed to the end users as opposed to the U.S. where the buyers were the network operators.

ramraj07 7y ago

Not sure I agree. There was a lot of innovation on smartphones before the iPhone, they were just not as visionary as the iPhone was. Look up the Nokia N-Gage as an example

java-man 7y ago
What an awful design it was! As much as I loved simpler Nokia handsets, N-Gage is not what I would consider an innovation. A personal opinion, of course.