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Originally Posted by ricsmania
People, the Kindle is supposed to be simple to use, even for someone who has never used a computer. If they added options for every little detail of the device, it would grow into a monster that eventually gets out of control.
I work with software development, and adding an option (even a simples yes/no) is a very expensive process, because it makes the software complexity grow exponentially: if you have 1 yes/no option, you have 2 possible scenarios; with 2 options, 4 scenarios, 3 options, 8 scenarios, and so on.
So from a developer perspective, it's better to make a change that makes 5% of customers unhappy, than adding an option and increase the complexity of the system, causing a bug or making it hard to use.
And I still keep my opinion about locations: when I'm reading a novel the least thing I want to do is math, or anything that isn't related to the story. For that reason, in my opinion showing locations is a useless feature, and I'm glad they removed it from the screen.
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There are no extra scenarios in this case. Whether the location and/ or pages are displayed or not, the screen layout remains the same. So it's a matter of checking some flags and printing out some strings, the procedures for which already exist. The most involved part is adding the UI to let the user set the option.
It's just laziness. I know, I've been there.