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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (5040)	12/23/2018 6:19:04 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Recommended By Zen Dollar Round Read Replies (1) of 6556

Sigh... I don't understand why Apple doesn't constantly buy out small interface companies like the guys who created these clever Mac apps. Often they create interface devices far superior to Apple's interface designers. I'm still using Drag Thing on my main computer. Way more handy than the dock, far less intrusive. I remember long ago a copy/paste app that allowed one to copy paste more than one item. In fact I probably could add a half dozen from memory like Quit Everything that did just what it says. As for phone apps... I was just going to add Uber and Lyft aps to my phone until I saw they have access to all sorts of files on my phone. That was just too intrusive to me, so I've bookmarked their website reservation links instead. I've never liked the concept of apps on phones... dozens and dozens of proprietary apps where websites would be better. One app or a couple of alternatives seems much better to me, non-proprietary code. It seems usabilty design is still backseat to absurd animation overload and Ive's precious "look"... Interestingly Mike Judge who worked in the tech industry did a story arc about usability and a coder's complete lack of understanding that usabilty is a separate scientific discipline that coders don't necessarily understand. This lack of understanding and arrogant belief that usability is all "opinion" is now 30 years old in the tech business. Never has there been a business so populated by genius with no common sense about a central topic of their business, maybe THE central topic: As per a company I worked for that died from usability problems a month after it was released... they do the testing AFTER the release, instead of as its being developed.

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