Re:Google is discontinuing Inbox
by amelius on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:29PM
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Change ...
- causes uncertainty (will this still work?);
- often comes at an inconvenient time;
- requires the user to re-learn the software;
- might cause incompatibilities with existing tools.
No wonder people mostly don't like updates, especially if they are forced upon them, and if the advantages are not clear.
Imho, to address the above points, software should let the user decide when they perform the update, and the user should always be allowed to switch back. Note that this might require data to be migrated back and forth, but of course that's the vendor's problem.
- causes uncertainty (will this still work?);
- often comes at an inconvenient time;
- requires the user to re-learn the software;
- might cause incompatibilities with existing tools.
No wonder people mostly don't like updates, especially if they are forced upon them, and if the advantages are not clear.
Imho, to address the above points, software should let the user decide when they perform the update, and the user should always be allowed to switch back. Note that this might require data to be migrated back and forth, but of course that's the vendor's problem.