‘A Platform That’s Teetering on the Edge of Becoming a User-Experience Joke Akin to Windows Vista’
Jason Snell, “Apple’s Permissions Features Are Out of Balance”:
Some users will make bad decisions. That’s just reality. The wrong
reaction is to take the decision out of every user’s hands to
protect the ones who might do something stupid. Apple needs to
find that balance, that protects people but gives users freedom to
do what they want, however dangerous it might be.
Apple’s recent feature changes suggest a value system that’s
wildly out of balance, preferring to warn (and control) users no
matter how damaging it is to the overall user experience. Maybe
the people in charge should be forced to sit down and watch that
Apple ad that mocks Windows Vista. Vista’s security prompts
existed for good reasons — but they were a user disaster. The
Apple of that era knew it. I’d guess a lot of people inside
today’s Apple know it, too — but they clearly are unable to win
the arguments when it matters.
Never would have guessed I’d still find use for the “Windows Vista” tag in my CMS in 2024, but here we are.
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Jason Snell, “Apple’s Permissions Features Are Out of Balance”:
Some users will make bad decisions. That’s just reality. The wrong
reaction is to take the decision out of every user’s hands to
protect the ones who might do something stupid. Apple needs to
find that balance, that protects people but gives users freedom to
do what they want, however dangerous it might be.
Apple’s recent feature changes suggest a value system that’s
wildly out of balance, preferring to warn (and control) users no
matter how damaging it is to the overall user experience. Maybe
the people in charge should be forced to sit down and watch that
Apple ad that mocks Windows Vista. Vista’s security prompts
existed for good reasons — but they were a user disaster. The
Apple of that era knew it. I’d guess a lot of people inside
today’s Apple know it, too — but they clearly are unable to win
the arguments when it matters.
Never would have guessed I’d still find use for the “Windows Vista” tag in my CMS in 2024, but here we are.