After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    It’s about time someone pointed this out. Look at all the things phones got rid of in their UI:

    • Clustering of icons on a desktop
    • Application windowing
    • Preferences located inside an application

    (It also gives up a lot of context-based right-clicking, but I personally consider the right-click a bad UI design choice.)

    Some things, like folders, are only barely implemented, with a host of features that we’ve had for decades removed. Ever tried to sort a phone group by creation date?

    I’m writing this on an iPad, which I would love to use as my daily driver, but because it runs iPad OS, there are so many productivity and organizational features missing relative to Mac OS that I do most important things on the laptop.

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      9 months ago

      I can do every single one of those things in my pixel (or just about any Android phone) if these things actually mattered you would have switched ages ago.

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        9 months ago

        “Locked” is a pretty strong word. I’m running a home lab with Home Assistant, and I’m running Macs, PCs, Android devices, and lots of Linux virtual machines. The reason I use an Apple product instead of an Android product is that Apple products are a lot more polished.