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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by overgard on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:07PM (#21860783)
The danger with data is it can keep you trapped in a local maxima. Also there's the whole thing with a lot of users seeming to be more and more annoyed with telemetry.
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by andreitp1 on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:11AM (#21862643)
THIS. So many people don't realize that true innovation cannot come from existing data.
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by xg15 on Monday December 23, 2019 @06:07AM (#21862892)
Maybe, instead of either just declaring what is the "right" way or observing users like some kind of behavioural scientist, we could just go back to, I don't know, asking them.
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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by some1else on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:10PM (#21865074)
Innovation comes from experimentation. It's useful to have hypotheses and quantitative/qualitative data to back the assumptions up or disprove them.
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