They should include the amount of meta data collected also in the report. For example WhatsApp collects and stores data about when and who did you chat with, but for example Signal only has knowledge of the day user was last seen using the app.
> Developers, by our nature, are very different from end-users. We're used to the idea that when you interact with a computer, it takes a little while for the computer to come back with an answer.
I don't agree. End users are used to shitty systems which take some time to load, but we developers should know better. We should be able to recognise performance bottlenecks during the architecture design and development, also we should be able to measure the layers where optimisation is necessary and useful. And when developing web app, caching should always be in mind as one tool to improve system performance in one way or another.
Taking this further, as a developer, I find I have even less patience for slow loading times than a 'regular end-user'.
I don't know exactly, but I assume this is because I know what goes on behind the scenes, and 99% of the time, the website is doing way more work than it really needs to in order to deliver the experience that I'm asking for.
I pay Spotify for usability and UX. Google Music might be couple of euros cheaper but the UI is worse (especially on mobile). Piracy and saving files to different devices takes time and effort, streaming is easy. Hunting down good quality uploads and creating playlists based on albums on Youtube? No way.
I had to use Google Music as the wifi at my old work, which was supplied by the local uni, had blocked Spotify.
This means I'm pretty invested in it right now, but god damn they just totally fucked up the desktop interface too with a material redesign. Everytime you open it, you have to click the burger icon just to see the menu. You can no longer view your present playlist in a permanent window, only in a popup. I add a lot of artists to my thumbs up playlist on a whim and then listen to it on shuffle, so like to see what I just listened to/is coming up. And now it's loads of clicking instead of an alt-tab. All the artist photos are now inexplicably circles making it hard to distinguish them by scanning.
Google cannot design anything. They keep getting worse, even as they employ designers. Everything they touch recently they make the UX worse in their quest to turn everything into a tablet interface, aka material.
I would agree with this. I have a Samsung tablet from last year (yes, an entire 6 months ago) and in that time Google has introduced the hamburger menu everywhere, and the "swipe from the left" navigation item.
The physical menu button on the device DOES NOTHING in these apps. It's stupid - why not map menu to the hamburger menu? Or are they confused about whether menu should open the hamburger or the side navigation?
When I bought my TMobile G1 (yes, classic eh) it had menu, home, and back. Then, they introduced a "search" button on the HTC Desire and it lasted until the Motorola Atrix I had. Yet in that time, it stopped doing anything in certain apps.
After that, they completely binned it.
Now the buttons are being made even more redundant. I wish they would make their mind up and not rewrite the UI guidelines every Google I/O. It's STUPID.
I think this Samsung is the last Google device I will buy - now that iOS does split screen, I may jump ship (but I will miss this stylus). At least things run smoothly (Google Maps in 3D on a Samsung quad core is jerky and SLOW; it's worse on the 8 core).
Google hasn't been using the menu button for many generations.
It went away with the Galaxy Nexus, and since that you've had the Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 6. Seeing that they release one per year, that's 4 years ago.
Blame Samsung for still keeping a button layout that doesn't apply to android since the original 4.0 came out.
Very informative, thanks! In that case I will direct my rage at Samsung for including it, but also at lazy app developers who fail to map MENU PHYSICAL BUTTON to the hamburger menu.
I never stop wondering how those prices are possible. I had a 2e/month plan on my mobile, unlimited everything. Adding to that 0,07 e per sms/minute. Lucky me company now pays my bills so I save whopping 5e/month.
There was a debate in Finland when the child porn filter was introduced a few years back. One guy had a website where he kept database of sites which were blocked but did not contain any child porn. Aftermath was that the site was added to list and that raised even more questions about the whole censorship idea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsiporno.info)
Unlike in Britain, the consumers did not have an option to opt out from the filter although it seems that majority of ISPs don't use it. Later on ISPs were forced to block piratebay.org and there have been discussions about blocking online poker sites etc, because Veikkaus enjoys monopoly in gambling and betting business in Finland.
Britain already has a mostly mandatory filter designed to save it from child pornography. Cleanfeed is run by the Internet Watch Foundation who look for images of abuse and put it on the blocklist. They're responsible for blocking Wikipedia due to an album cover.
The same filter is now used to action on high court demands to block torrent websites like The Pirate Bay.
Aha! Another great business opportunity reveals itself!
If you built a relationship with the filter provider, you could get companies to pay you to have their competitor's websites added to to the list of blocked websites!
