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Originally Posted by BWinmill
The problem with minimal is that different people have a different idea of what minimal should look like. For example: some people will want the ability to adjust the font weight in order to make the text easier to read, while other people will want to adjust to the margins to display more text on the screen. Some people will use both features, others will use one or the other, and (I suspect) most will use neither. Different people will give different answers based upon their needs and perspective. How do you choose?
Yes, I realize that's just two features. Now consider the feature requests that a hundred people would generate. While many would be in common, there would also be many that would address the needs of a small group of people.
One way to choose is to let the vendor impose limits. If the vendor does their market research properly, they'll have a good idea of what their customers demand and what most customers won't miss. Unfortunately, the people who expect those missing features will find the product painful to use. Is that really any different from the pain felt by people who found feature rich products difficult to use? In a very real sense, yes. Perplexed users can always learn how to ignore those "unnecessary" features or even learn how to benefit from those features. When you're missing features, the best you can do is accept your fate. In reality though, you're probably going to have to deal with diminished productivity.
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I don't really want unnecessary features clogging up the UI. Let's take the homescreen for example. How do you propose I ignore something like this:
Can I make it stick, so I will never have to look at a non-book tile again? I just want a simple look at my books and collections...