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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by Razengan on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:18AM (#21864626)
The Terminal/NSUserDefaults system is useless for navigation and discoverability of optional settings.

How would I see all the options available for an app? We're back to googling and peer support.

> For some reason, Apple has now decided that their simple platform needs to be as capable as the more advanced platform.

Because they were getting crap for it.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by ncallaway on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:05PM (#21865034)
> We're back to googling and peer support.

Googling and peer support is much more acceptable for advanced actions than simple actions.

If I need to Google how to disable labels in the dock, that's probably ok. If I need to Google how to turn down the brightness of the iPad...that's not great.

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Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by Wowfunhappy on Monday December 23, 2019 @12:30PM (#21865242)
Yes, exactly.

An interface can only ever have a finite number of discoverable actions. So choose what actions are core functionality, and make those discoverable. Hide what's left.

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