[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>> I've been reminded of the iMac G3 that I was made to use for some of my 
>> time as a PhD student.  Just the backspace key, no delete key.  And no Fn 
>> key to make some of the keys double as different keys - those keys they 
>> felt people could live without they just left off.
>>
>
> That's really one of the main reasons I don't consider Apple to be good at 
> design: Anytime they notice that something isn't *needed* by *all* users, 
> they just throw out instead of leaving it as an option. They seem to feel 
> that personal customization and preferences are an "evil" that infringes 
> on the uniformity of their brand image (Which also explains their love for 
> DRM and gatekeeping).
>

To clarify, I don't mean "DRM" in the sense of music/videos or 
game-industry-rootkits. I mean in terms of using it to artificially limit 
what users are able/allowed to do with their own devices.