December 26, 2000
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This was sent to me a couple of weeks ago, but a thought is was worth sharing. A residual bit of kiosk-fermented travel commentary from Jon:
“So ironic, isn’t it, that just as the average browser screen size goes up to 800×600 (and we change the EyeWire site), we are faced with the explosive growth of cell phone- and PDA-based browsers! Not to mention free internet services like this one, with 40% of its 800×600 screen filled up with ads and AOL-type “navigation” elements. I took a picture for you. I think it leaves the browser window, oh, about 600×480 pixels…”
I love it when an experience with technology leaves the user in a muddled state consisting of both a sense of progress and regress at the same time. Let’s use the lower prices of larger format displays to our advantage and eat up the additional screen area with superfluous ad-candy. Let’s pump a bunch of assumptive guess-work into the feature set for next iteration of our software, and then change the all the functions and commands that we know our customers already use. Let’s implement those features using the most gaseous code-bloat imaginable so that the new version of our software runs slower than the previous release, even on a faster processor. Becoming a Luddite looks awful attractive sometimes.
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