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Sorry I'm passionate about the industry. Apple took the first step on almost all those feature killing things you listed and then to "keep up with the industry
by kristopolous 3y ago
Sorry I'm passionate about the industry.
Apple took the first step on almost all those feature killing things you listed and then to "keep up with the industry", the android vendors followed suit.
Products that "just work" often in practice get that attribute by only working in a proscribed way and then flat out failing in others.
Your fail case is inevitably because the just work philosophy was followed for some other imagined use case so being a tool was replaced with being an appliance.
When you try to meet the user too far you inherently compromise functionality and adaptability in exchange for narrowed convenience.
You need to take things away and remove decision points from the user in order to get to a just work state.
Then there's an actual group of users that reinforces this and classifies such things are progress.
I care a lot about a productive meaningful future and I want to push things in the right directions
- lazycouchpotato 3y agoAll good. Thing is, power users are a vocal minority in his industry. People like our families are the majority, and I don't want them to have to deal with quirks or troubles, but I also don't want an oligopoly controlling the space and compromising innovation, privacy, etc. in the name of "convenience" (profit).
- kristopolous 3y agoPower user is the wrong view. The problem here is whether someone wants a good knife or a bunch of specialized knife like devices like cheese slicers for specialized knife functions. The problem in technology is we presume it's Either the mandolin Or the knife and not both. The fleeting elegance in the craft of engineering tech products is in empowering all these modalities and not the endemic narrowcasting we see plaguing the industry. It's possible, it's just sadly not common