Re:iTunes will never work well
by jonathankoren on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:47AM
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> As someone who got to use a PowerBook G4 (running 10.5.8) from time to time (in fact, I'm typing this very comment on it), I fail to see how their current UI is any more undiscoverable than the UI from 7 years ago.
Problem: You plug in an external monitor and for some reason it doesn't immediately display an images. What do you do?
In pre-el-Capitan, you open up the display settings pane and press the button marked "Detect Displays".
In El Capitan, you open up the display settings pane and note that the button is not there. Are you screwed? It appears so. So you run a google search and discover that if you hold down the option key, the button that had been there for maybe 16 years magically appears in an area of what previously appeared to be blank in the dialog.
I believe that's called the Indiana Jones UI pattern.[0]
So yes, the discoverability has gotten worse over the years. This is something that was visible and made invisible.
Problem: You plug in an external monitor and for some reason it doesn't immediately display an images. What do you do?
In pre-el-Capitan, you open up the display settings pane and press the button marked "Detect Displays".
In El Capitan, you open up the display settings pane and note that the button is not there. Are you screwed? It appears so. So you run a google search and discover that if you hold down the option key, the button that had been there for maybe 16 years magically appears in an area of what previously appeared to be blank in the dialog.
I believe that's called the Indiana Jones UI pattern.[0]
So yes, the discoverability has gotten worse over the years. This is something that was visible and made invisible.
[0] http://youtu.be/xFntFdEGgws