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Sometimes people are right and companies have to go back having wasted millions on crap and hindering progress because they had to copy bad ideas from others se
by sschueller 4y ago
Sometimes people are right and companies have to go back having wasted millions on crap and hindering progress because they had to copy bad ideas from others seeing only the money that is being made as a result of marketing and not features or usability.
Some examples: Apple's touchbar ESC key or the super low profile non-replacable keyboard, vehicles that switches to touch screen and capacitive button interfaces for critical controls resulting in less safe driving experience, Apple's iPhone "your holding it wrong" decorative metal frame, Apple's refusal to add NFC or wireless charging for years because of the metal back, there are hundreds more.
- xattt 4y agoOne example was QuarkXpress vs InDesign. One was based on traditional ways of working, and brought a paradigm shift towards true digital publishing concepts. Not sure what you could do in one and not the other, but you sure had a lot of cranky greybeards when their shops had to switch, because they had to learn new ways of thinking. You’d also run into the same situation if you had a young whipper-snapper go into a QuarkXpress shop.
- notpachet 4y ago> Some examples: Apple's touchbar ESC key The number of times I accidentally closed an almost-filled-out modal because a few molecules of my finger accidentally brushed the escape key on that @#$&* thing...