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The problem is you aren't their intended audience. I too thought Apple UIs were confoundingly bad, but one day I decided to take a step back and approach it as
by Dalewyn 3y ago
The problem is you aren't their intended audience.
I too thought Apple UIs were confoundingly bad, but one day I decided to take a step back and approach it as any ordinary man would. I pretended I knew nothing and cared nothing about computers.
You know what happened? It was intuitive. It was consistent. It was harmonious. My mind was blown.
Apple UIs are made for the ordinary man, not for tech nerds and professionals like us. Forget alt-tabbing and window managing, the vast majority of people on the planet don't know and don't care about computers; and it's those people Apple caters to.
- catiopatio 3y agoI’d suggest you didn’t look at it from the perspective of an “ordinary man”, but instead, you dropped your longstanding assumptions from using Windows.
- Dalewyn 3y agoPractically speaking that's the same thing, normal people don't know and don't care about Windows vs. MacOS vs. Linux. It's a computer, and they hate it. Apple at least designs their UIs to accomodate how normal people use computers, which is why their stuff doesn't mesh well with tech nerds and professionals without a mindset change. We are not normal people.