RE: https://fosstodon.org/@drdrang/116046637220292669
"It’s probably impossible to tell the upper echelon of Apple that it’s breaking revenue records in spite of its software design, not because of it.”
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@drdrang/116046637220292669
"It’s probably impossible to tell the upper echelon of Apple that it’s breaking revenue records in spite of its software design, not because of it.”
@marcoarment And sometimes hardware - to recharge my slick-formed mouse I must turn it upside down to plug the cable in.
Good design means form follows function. Apple used to know that.
@marcoarment CarPlay automatically playing the first song it finds in the first album in your Apple Music library in alphabetical order has been driving me nuts for almost ten years.
@marcoarment Wisest insight I got from over a decade of @atpfm is “Success hides failure... and the larger the success, the larger the failures it can hide” ©️ @siracusa
/ cc @drdrang
@fabienmarry “Success hides problems.” It’s from Ed Catmull in this book https://hypercritical.co/2014/04/27/creativity-inc
@siracusa ah! And I had even read that book. Loved it.
@fabienmarry Sorry, my post had a typo! Fixed now.
@marcoarment exactly: they will only change when they have an incentive to change
@marcoarment @drdrang It’s hard to change when the giant money trucks are dumping huge piles of cash onto your doorstep.
@marcoarment I've dubbed that empty square the "burn through my data plan" button.