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As Apple prepares to show off new features for the iPhone and other devices at its developer conference on Monday, the company is grappling with an uncomfortable issue: Many of its existing features are already too complicated for many users to figure out.
At last year’s conference, for example, Apple’s top software executive, Craig Federighi, demonstrated how users could order food, scribble doodles and send funny images known as stickers in chats on its Messages app. The idea was to make Messages, one of the most popular apps on the iPhone, into an all-purpose tool like China’s WeChat.
But the process of finding and installing other apps in Messages is so tricky that most users have no idea they can even do it, developers and analysts say.
Source: The New York Times
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday June 05 2017, @08:00AM
Cars built for the right hand drive market usually/traditionally have the indicator stalk on the right, BUT the ignition (key or button) is also on the right of the wheel.
Some cars built for both right- and left-hand drive markets will usually have the wiper controls as a stalk, on the left hand side, with the "off" position at the top. The engineers just spin the whole thing around, swap the blinkers, and save $0.50 per car. Not all the cars in our household have the blinkers on the same side.
So, with masses of legislation, rules, and standards, and global drivers, we still don't have consisent layout for some of the fundamental controls for cars (who am I kidding- most people think blinkers are optional..)
With no legislation, rules or standards for phone (or web..) interfaces, it is amazing anyone can turn any two dirrerent phones on.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex