A J. D. Power & Associates survey found that Windows Mobile had the lowest satisfaction rating among customers of any smartphone operating system. The iPhone has by far the most satisfying software, the study found. Android is a distant second, followed closely by BlackBerry’s operating system.
Features like that can be dangerous because they are legitimately very useful during the app’s gestation, when exciting demos are a key survival trait; but then they can’t be removed later on because they’re so well-known, even if they turn out to be useless. Sometimes these features aren’t actually harmful to the user experience, they just make the code more complex and harder to maintain. Instant typing is both, unfortunately.
Jens Alfke, one of the developers of iChat 1.0, on real-time typing in Google Wave
Indeed, Wave is so packed with features of marginal utility it’s easy to forget it was invented by Google. Here was a company that once prided itself on simplicity; Wave is so bloated it could have come from Microsoft.
When rich entertainment TV moguls are mocking decent, self-effacing candidates for public office such as Deeds, you know we’ve reached some sort of new bottom in the slime wars.
Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often memorable, asked, in essence, what [tablet computers] were good for besides surfing the Web in the bathroom.
Apple needs to realize that the foundation of the iPhone platform is based less on those looking to make a quick buck and more on those looking to make a living.
this makes it so all your tabs and trailing whitespace is visible. note, this will make you hate almost every other developer.
I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
It is therefore with a heavy heart that I report that no fewer than 39 percent of my fellow Americans agree that “the government should stay out of Medicare.” Another 15 percent aren’t sure. This means that a majority of Americans (margin of error: 3 percent) is at best unsure as to whether Medicare is a government program. The left appears to have a firmer grip on reality, at least within this circumscribed realm, than the right. Sixty-two percent of McCain voters, 59 percent of self-described conservatives, and 62 percent of self-described Republicans think government should stay out of Medicare as against (a still distressingly high) 20 percent of Obama voters, 25 percent of self-described liberals, and 24 percent of self-described Democrats. Among independents, 31 percent agreed that government should stay out of Medicare.
Man, if you make software, you never want to be on my ‘Groan Pile.’ That’s the apps that make me Groan as soon as I realize I have to launch them. MS Word is not only the President of Groan; it’s the 4-term FDR of Groan.