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> Every single phone app thinks it is the centre of the universe and is "only" sending you a few notifications per day, but if you extend this to every app on y
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Every single phone app thinks it is the centre of the universe and is "only" sending you a few notifications per day, but if you extend this to every app on your phone you'll get hundreds a day and the only recourse is to disable them entirely.
Is there a general name for this sort of bias? It's not just phone apps and notifications; I notice this center of the universe attitude in developers of all kinds of auxiliary programs. Chat app programmers who think that quip "unused ram is wasted ram", which they learned in the context of the OS caching files in ram, gives their chat app license to use as much ram as the user may have. It ignores all the other programs the user is probably running that are much more important than their chat app. To the chat app developer, the chat app is the center of the universe and the user has no use for any of their ram besides running the chat app.
- autoexec 4y ago> Is there a general name for this sort of bias? selfishness?