Are you sure you've responded to the correct comment? Or did you misunderstand my comment?
No where did I say I want an "all encompassing authoritarian provider" or to "narrow the periphery and extinguish the creative sparks of discovery". All I asked for is my device to "just work" when I want it to. You can have have your cake and eat it as well - it is possible to be friendly towards both novice and pro users, as I demonstrated with the Steam Deck example (whether they will continue this, is a separate discussion). Things can "just work" without a company deciding what's best for me.
I used to be able to plug my phone into my laptop and copy my Minecraft files. I can't do that any more.
I own the device. I decide what I want to do with it.
I myself have faced the brunt of "error reinforcement": my phone doesn't have expandable storage, lacks a headphone jack and didn't come with a charger in the box, - all to inconvenience me and raise Google's bottom line.
If you're up for constructive criticism, please don't come off so aggressive.
Apple took the first step on almost all those feature killing things you listed and then to "keep up with the industry", the android vendors followed suit.
Products that "just work" often in practice get that attribute by only working in a proscribed way and then flat out failing in others.
Your fail case is inevitably because the just work philosophy was followed for some other imagined use case so being a tool was replaced with being an appliance.
When you try to meet the user too far you inherently compromise functionality and adaptability in exchange for narrowed convenience.
You need to take things away and remove decision points from the user in order to get to a just work state.
Then there's an actual group of users that reinforces this and classifies such things are progress.
I care a lot about a productive meaningful future and I want to push things in the right directions
Thing is, power users are a vocal minority in his industry. People like our families are the majority, and I don't want them to have to deal with quirks or troubles, but I also don't want an oligopoly controlling the space and compromising innovation, privacy, etc. in the name of "convenience" (profit).
The problem here is whether someone wants a good knife or a bunch of specialized knife like devices like cheese slicers for specialized knife functions.
The problem in technology is we presume it's Either the mandolin Or the knife and not both.
The fleeting elegance in the craft of engineering tech products is in empowering all these modalities and not the endemic narrowcasting we see plaguing the industry.
Are you sure you've responded to the correct comment? Or did you misunderstand my comment?
No where did I say I want an "all encompassing authoritarian provider" or to "narrow the periphery and extinguish the creative sparks of discovery". All I asked for is my device to "just work" when I want it to. You can have have your cake and eat it as well - it is possible to be friendly towards both novice and pro users, as I demonstrated with the Steam Deck example (whether they will continue this, is a separate discussion). Things can "just work" without a company deciding what's best for me.
I used to be able to plug my phone into my laptop and copy my Minecraft files. I can't do that any more.
I own the device. I decide what I want to do with it.
I myself have faced the brunt of "error reinforcement": my phone doesn't have expandable storage, lacks a headphone jack and didn't come with a charger in the box, - all to inconvenience me and raise Google's bottom line.
If you're up for constructive criticism, please don't come off so aggressive.