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Originally Posted by rayhigh
Software that works correctly and easily is the opposite of being 'worse' or 'taking longer.' Or perhaps you haven't read carefully what people have been writing. Or you are being sycophantic.
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Given that most of the posts -- by what by my count, are by a minority of the posters -- are saying either "make it work the way I want it to work" and/or "give us choice", which means that when you first connect your Kobo reader, you are either going to have to make a lot of choices or you are going to get a set of pre-canned defaults which 90%+* percent of the users will never change. Either way, the software is going to be more complex which leads to the high probability of more bugs and that those bugs will slip by testing. I still have fond(?) memories of a bug which showed up when you ran Lotus 1-2-3 under OS/2 with a Matrox graphics card set to a non-standard resolution. Works fine until a operation caused the full screen display to be larger than the screen resolution so the right side moved off screen with no way to scroll it back into view.
Moreover I find it interesting that in light of your experience, you would state that software that works correctly and easily is the opposite of "taking longer". My experience from dealing with software is that software that is rushed tends to have a lot more issues.
*: A couple of years back during a security audit phase, we collected various studies from around the Internet on what percentage of people change default settings. For the programs we were interested in (MS Office, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Adobe Creative Suite, Java, etc.), the numbers we found ran from 85% to 98% with the average around 94%. We collected similar data internally by querying the computers and the numbers ran even higher. Quite a few of the younger staff did tend to change their Facebook and other social network settings even though accessing social networks from a work machine was a major no-no at that time.
Regards,
David