Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)

Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by krtkush on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:17AM (#21862001)

I feel that this is a dark-pattern to force users to enable automatics updates.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by JBiserkov on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:05AM (#21862167)

They just needed the space previously occupied by "Updates" to promote their "Arcade"

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by xattt on Monday December 23, 2019 @05:26AM (#21862705)

Clearly, the solution would be to place Arcade under Profile. Easily accessible!

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by endorphone on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:23AM (#21863421)

iOS 13 defaults to automatic app updates. How in the world is that a "dark pattern"? I get that people got accustomed to manual updates [1], and some illusion that this gave them some control, but from a rational evaluation it makes no sense.

[1] - I remember when Google first added enabled automatic app updates and one of the most common retorts, including on here, was "can you say bricked" and similar nonsense.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by ascagnel_ on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:28AM (#21863748)

iOS updates apps automatically; system updates still require explicit user approval. I think it 's a decent trade-off, given that the options are "don't update", "update now", and a default of "update overnight, when/if the device is plugged in".

More stuff should allow for the latter option.

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