We didn't get use to ribbons. We realized they weren't going to listen when we pointed out how bizarre and unintuitive they are for nothing more than a desire to change things up, and tolerate them. Just like people tolerate all sorts of things that are worse than they could be, rather than just different. For example, I had an iPhone4s. It could no longer handle what I needed it for, but I still had to tolerate it for a year or so before I could get a 6s. Windows Vista is crap, but I had to tolerate it after my XP laptop died, until I could get something better. ... which I also tolerate, although admittedly nothing since Vista has been Vista bad.
Then I got sick of tolerating it and wrote a shell I can actually stand to use casually.
I'd write an IM client, except that requires servers, and security, and a big network of users, and that's why Teamtalk can't compete with Skype, even if the interface was somehow simplified. (It can't really be, because it's based around arbitrary user-run servers.)
Writing a text chat program is easy. Writing a text chat program that enough people will use to be worth adopting... that's hard. Just like competing with Apple, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Amazon is hard. They have enough servers, infrastructure, experience, funding, employees, and users to try just about anything. I have a trio of laptops, the youngest being 6 years old, an iPhone, and a PACMate. So I'm not going to be the one to fix this. Someone who can actually compete in terms of resources and marketing has to do that.
See, it feels decreasingly like users have much influence over the products. True, we aren't entitled to influence over the products. But, in theory, products succeed and fail based on what's best. If none of the choices are as good as they need to be, the MARKET™ is supposed to correct that because it'd be free money for whoever does it right. But the barrier to entry is way too high for that, now.
看過來! "If you want utopia but reality gives you Lovecraft, you don't give up, you carve your utopia out of the corpses of dead gods."
MaxAngor wrote:
George... Don't do that.