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Post by hnlmorg »

mduncs wrote: post #83
hnlmorg wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind. I'm surprised you find that surprising because customisation isn't exactly a new phenomenon. I mean is it really any different to techies slapping stickers on their laptop? Or car enthusiasts modding th…

Not sure if you've used shortcuts on iOS but a lot of those customizations don't change the performance of anything. The shortcuts on an iphone add a half second each time you use the app, because the icon has to open the shortcuts app THEN open the app the shortcut is linked to. If adding a sticker to your laptop increased the boot time a fraction of a second some people would still do it, but many would it find it…

I've seen people mod their car in ways that are detrimental to it's performance. I've also known people who have intentionally bought inferior hardware because it looked nicer. In fact I've seen some people wear shoes that has give them blisters but done so because those shoes were pretty.

You'd be surprised at the lengths of inconvenience some people will endure for the sake of aesthetics.

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Post by derefr »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #157
macNchz wrote: post #29

It’s funny how trends change but Apple users’ appetite for icons stays the same...10 years ago Apple made the navigation icons in iTunes greyscale instead of color. I wasn’t sold on it so I fired up ResEdit and quickly edited the old icons into the new sprite file inside the app package. I saw other people complaining online so I posted the updated resource file on my $5/mo shared hosting and put a link on a forum...…

It's funny you mentioned this. When I was on iOS, I was never satisfied with the icons (or the UI in general). I always wanted to customize it. The stock colors/design just left me wanted for more. It's an unconscious feeling; there is no concrete thing to pin point and say that the UI is bad. What's strange is that, since I switched to Android a couple years back, I no longer had the urge to change the icons or cust…

I don't think it's really that Android design is more "okay." I think it's that the iOS (and moreso macOS) icon design-language has the potential for some really distractingly-beautiful outlier icons — icons that really twig on people's "gathering fresh ripe fruit" reward system. And when there's some of those sitting on your Dock as part of your every-day experience, you start to both:

1. want every icon to be as tantalizing as those icons already are (and so desire to customize the "lesser" icons to achieve that); and

2. feel like something very precious has been lost whenever an icon is made less tantalizing.

I would hazard a guess that the "greyscale makes people less addicted to their phones" research is more true for iOS users than Android users. iOS just has a higher average level of visual addicting-ness in its design. (Which, to be clear, has nothing to do with differing levels of "polish" or anything like that; addicting-ness is its own thing. Some [good] design-aesthetics have it; other [also good] design-aesthetics don't.)

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Post by triceratops »

fartcannon wrote: post #167
elboru wrote: post #155

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This is anecdotal of course. But I was an Android user since the first Galaxy S until the Galaxy S7 (with Nexus and some others in between). I don’t know if this is still the case but every single time I had one of the big updates my phone just started getting slower and slower, most of my phones got a crack in the screen, battery started draining really quickly. I couldn’t spend more than 1.5 years with the same pho…

Apple was literally fined for slowing down older phones: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724 If you want your phone to last forever, you need to take control of it yourself. Get a Lineage OS compatible phone and ditch the play store. Not only will it be faster, the battery life will quadruple.

They were fined for not telling people that they were slowing down older phones. It's a subtle difference. I'm not saying the fine was unjust, only that it doesn't reflect on the performance or quality of the product. Instead now we know that a simple battery change will restore the speed.

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Post by hnlmorg »

colinmhayes wrote: post #88
hnlmorg wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind. I'm surprised you find that surprising because customisation isn't exactly a new phenomenon. I mean is it really any different to techies slapping stickers on their laptop? Or car enthusiasts modding th…

None of the things you listed have any downside. This shortcuts workaround makes opening apps a horrible experience.

I've seen people mod their car in ways that are detrimental to it's performance (and intentionally too). So yes, some of those examples can sometimes affect the product negatively.

Never underestimate a persons vanity.

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Post by bobloblaw45 »

mdorazio wrote: post #207
jacquesm wrote: post #86

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Nothing like free users when it comes to entitlement. I think this is mostly because they don't realize which companies are large and which are small or even just hobby projects, it is trivial to appear much larger than you are on the web.

A lot of free users also simply have no concept of how much effort something takes since they've never done it themselves, and by extension have no concept of what that effort translates to in zero cost labor. It's something I see a lot in the maker side of the world with things like 3d printable files.

Huge problem in the creative fields.

Almost everyone is super hyped that someone finally likes their work enough that they actually want it, let alone actually want to pay for it. So they undervalue their work and sell it for peanuts. I sometimes see work priced so low that it barely covers the supplies. They might sell a few but don't want to raise their price as they get better. Get a few people doing this and it becomes hard for legitimate creatives to sell their work at higher realistic prices.

Then there's overseas creatives. Some can do phenomenal work but you just can't compete with their prices even if they're pricing realiatically for where they live.

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Post by giarc »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #71
umvi wrote: post #67

It's like Among Us. Published in 2018, absolutely exploded in 2020 due to a single Twitch streamer. I'm pretty sure the devs of Among Us became millionaires virtually overnight. Influencers with large followings wield awesome power.

And Flappy Bird before that, right?

I don't think Flappy Bird went viral as a result of a single or even multiple influencers. It seemed to spread by word-of-mouth and blew up that way.

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Post by chr »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #157
macNchz wrote: post #29

It’s funny how trends change but Apple users’ appetite for icons stays the same...10 years ago Apple made the navigation icons in iTunes greyscale instead of color. I wasn’t sold on it so I fired up ResEdit and quickly edited the old icons into the new sprite file inside the app package. I saw other people complaining online so I posted the updated resource file on my $5/mo shared hosting and put a link on a forum...…

It's funny you mentioned this. When I was on iOS, I was never satisfied with the icons (or the UI in general). I always wanted to customize it. The stock colors/design just left me wanted for more. It's an unconscious feeling; there is no concrete thing to pin point and say that the UI is bad. What's strange is that, since I switched to Android a couple years back, I no longer had the urge to change the icons or cust…

Not a UX person.

There's a threshold after which something is so good it's worth criticizing?

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

bdcravens wrote: post #117
kyran_adept wrote: post #7

As an Android user, I am completely blown away by two things: #1 iPhones got this only in 2020, when Android had this since the first version, #2 iPhone owners are willing to spend $28 for a icon pack, a very nice one, but still an icon pack.

Other than the derisive "sheeple" response, why do people stick with iPhones when Androids have more desirable features?

My iPhone 7 is a tool. It does its job, I don't feel any need to hack it, mod it or change it or upgrade every year. I text people, call people, take pics, browse the web, install other apps for things like ordering food, maybe play a game, etc.

In my opinion, most features that have come out in recent years for smart phones don't really matter to users. They are marketing checklists.

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Post by entropicdrifter »

acomms wrote: post #208
somesortofthing wrote: post #168

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Being "prepared" for a given opportunity is often trivial. Whether the opportunity you're prepared for ever arises is luck.

If you're good and persistent eventually you get lucky. Most people just give up because being persistent is emotionally draining.

If you're good and persistent and happen to be prepared enough for whichever type of opportunity happens to present itself for you
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