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Originally Posted by Coops
It staggered me when i got our first iPad that people just stuck with Safari - it's only recently got tabs for goodness' sake.
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And the
implementation of tabs in Safari is inferior, too: in order to close a Safari tab, you must first actively switch to it!
In every smart browser, you simply tap the "x" icon to close a tab, while remaining on the current tab.
But as you say: it's default, lame software, such as many have come to expect from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc. I just find it amusing when it is claimed that the world's wealthiest multi-billion corporations are unable to produce quality, smart software. Oh, they definitely
could do that, if that was their
intention. But their focus is not on
supreme software quality -- it's on
maximising profits. In order for corporations to produce supreme software quality, they would consciously need to
sacrifice part of their profits for that goal. It appears that corporations are constitutionally unable or unwilling to do so because certain levels of corporate management would then get blamed for decreased profit growth if they permitted themselves to focus on quality rather than quantity (= mass of users).
I think the least us users can do, is call things by their right names. As you know, it's part of the corporate marketing to
pretend as if corporate software were of supreme quality. (Just watch any Apple keynote.) I believe if enough users call things by their right names -- call low-quality software low-quality when they see it ("The king is naked!") -- this may help put some pressure on corporations to focus more on quality, even if it were at the expense of quantity. No corporation would enjoy the reputation of producing low-quality software. However, if we take it for
granted that corporations produce low-quality software, if we even attempt to
justify corporations for not caring about quality, essentially
approving their approach... then no overall improvement can occur in future.
You know, iBooks is the smaller problem here -- you can replace it with Marvin. (Not on all occasions: DRM-protected books...) A more serious problem is something like iOS with its overly restricted environment and limited functionality. You can't swap iOS for something else on your iPad or iPhone; nor are you allowed to tweak and improve its functionality in the ways it's possible on traditional computers. If low-quality software is not criticised and is even taken for granted, it's unlikely to ever improve.
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