Re:Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests
by zelon88 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:38PM
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I think you're giving them just a little too much credit for implementing, essentially, a product that works as expected.
And the reason for that is partly because so many companies make products that don't work as expected. Or worse they make products intentionally designed to mislead users, most of whom have very little understanding of what their device is actually telling them.
More importantly, the super-users like yourself who know when they're being deceived by symbology in UI design don't get up in the companies face when you DO discover "hey, this symbology is misleading!" Granted, companies are intentionally vague when documenting such features so that you'll essentially shame yourself into not asking "what does this little symbol actually mean?"
Re:Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests
by simonh on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:54AM
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When confidence that anybody else's products work 'as expected' is essentially zero, and doing the right thing comes at a significant extra cost, I think this is reasonable.
And the reason for that is partly because so many companies make products that don't work as expected. Or worse they make products intentionally designed to mislead users, most of whom have very little understanding of what their device is actually telling them.
More importantly, the super-users like yourself who know when they're being deceived by symbology in UI design don't get up in the companies face when you DO discover "hey, this symbology is misleading!" Granted, companies are intentionally vague when documenting such features so that you'll essentially shame yourself into not asking "what does this little symbol actually mean?"