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At some point in your life, probably in the last year, you've paid good money for a cool piece of technology that turned out to be a piece of shit. It had features that made no sense at all, and at some point you asked yourself, "How could a building full of geniuses with millions in R money come up with this?"
Well, I'll tell you how. My name is Christopher Daed, and I've put in time in the tech industry with Microsoft, Intel, and others. And from what I've seen .
In 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8 to great fanfare. And by fanfare, I mean almost universal loathing. Why would they build an OS that seemed custom designed for tablets, even though the vast majority of people are still using PCs?". the hell? I can't tear pages out of this when the TP's gone."
I know why: Because Microsoft's product managers LOVE tablets, just like they LOVED the laptops with swiveling touchscreens that also failed to win America's heart. It isn't that they were stupid tablets were really useful in their jobs. They just forgot that the rest of the world cheap nike air max womens size 6 didn't live the daily life of a product manager in Redmond, Washington. It's like designing magnetic license plate covers completely unaware that some cars might be made of plastic.
This is a deeper problem than just a few product managers at Microsoft, by the way.
But even when it's a subject developers do have personal experience with namely, Internet porn there's a disconnect with the users. How many of you are paranoid about storing naked photos on your computer because there don't seem to be any easy "I don't want anyone but me to see this" options for storage? Well, get this in the early stages of Windows Vista, I saw that there was a feature that would scan your hard drive for all image files, then shuffle them randomly as the logo for the picture folder.
All the images on your drive. Yes, even those images."Those mountain goats are all adults, I swear."
The problem is that, in a business setting, surrounded by their peers and managers, no one wanted to stand up and declare themselves the self appointed representative of perverts. Instead, I had to be the one to say, "What if I want my family photos separate from my desktop backgrounds?" with "family photos" standing in for "porn" (as they always do).
On another occasion, I worked on a car stereo that would connect to your phone and allow you to make and receive phone calls. What made this one interesting was that it synced your full contact list and call history to display on the screen. And if you had more than one phone in the family, it would simply merge the two, with a little icon showing which phone that call belonged to.
And it's even harder bringing these issues up because everyone in these meetings has to pretend to be utterly dumfounded by the idea that humans may do things in private that they don't want shared with the world. At times it was hard to tell if they were being willfully oblivious and condescending or simply fucking with me.
4. Patents Keep the Coolest Innovations Off Your Machine
Lional Bonaventure / AFP / Getty
If you browse headlines at tech sites, these days you'll hear a lot about patents, specifically "patent trolls." It's hard to understand sometimes how this impacts you, the customer, so let me give you an example:
In 1999, Amazon attained the patent for single click purchase. Yep, just that general cheap nike air max womens size 9 concept, which really every retailer should have. It would be like if Nike decided to patent the way we all tie our shoelaces so that suddenly everyone has to either send Nike a check every morning or learn another way to tie their shoes.
Medioimages/
"Does it break the patent if I'm drunk when I do it?"
Then you have someone like me developing the purchase engine for an online game years later the sort of thing that lets your character buy health potions and a sword that turns orcs into chickens or something using real world money. So the character goes into the store and looks at the product list on the blackboard behind the proprietor. He selects the things he wants, maybe sells his extra wolf's bane and cat's eyeballs, and sees if he can afford the sheep gun, whatever. Total immersion. Then, when he's done, the whole thing freezes. He's taken out of the game and shown a meaningless popup with one button. That is there because having the whole transaction only take one click wouldn't be fair to Amazon.
Meanwhile, if you've ever made a one click purchase through another online store, it's because they paid Amazon a shitload of money to do so. Unless you live in Europe, where they've decided that one click shopping is way too obvious of an idea to patent. This is all because it's not at all clear what exactly we should and shouldn't be able to patent when it comes to technology.
At some point in your life, probably in the last year, you've paid good money for a cool piece of technology that turned out to be a piece of shit. It had features that made no sense at all, and at some point you asked yourself, "How could a building full of geniuses with millions in R money come up with this?"
Well, I'll tell you how. My name is Christopher Daed, and I've put in time in the tech industry with Microsoft, Intel, and others. And from what I've seen .
In 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8 to great fanfare. And by fanfare, I mean almost universal loathing. Why would they build an OS that seemed custom designed for tablets, even though the vast majority of people are still using PCs?". the hell? I can't tear pages out of this when the TP's gone."
I know why: Because Microsoft's product managers LOVE tablets, just like they LOVED the laptops with swiveling touchscreens that also failed to win America's heart. It isn't that they were stupid tablets were really useful in their jobs. They just forgot that the rest of the world cheap nike air max womens size 6 didn't live the daily life of a product manager in Redmond, Washington. It's like designing magnetic license plate covers completely unaware that some cars might be made of plastic.
This is a deeper problem than just a few product managers at Microsoft, by the way.
But even when it's a subject developers do have personal experience with namely, Internet porn there's a disconnect with the users. How many of you are paranoid about storing naked photos on your computer because there don't seem to be any easy "I don't want anyone but me to see this" options for storage? Well, get this in the early stages of Windows Vista, I saw that there was a feature that would scan your hard drive for all image files, then shuffle them randomly as the logo for the picture folder.
All the images on your drive. Yes, even those images."Those mountain goats are all adults, I swear."
The problem is that, in a business setting, surrounded by their peers and managers, no one wanted to stand up and declare themselves the self appointed representative of perverts. Instead, I had to be the one to say, "What if I want my family photos separate from my desktop backgrounds?" with "family photos" standing in for "porn" (as they always do).
On another occasion, I worked on a car stereo that would connect to your phone and allow you to make and receive phone calls. What made this one interesting was that it synced your full contact list and call history to display on the screen. And if you had more than one phone in the family, it would simply merge the two, with a little icon showing which phone that call belonged to.
And it's even harder bringing these issues up because everyone in these meetings has to pretend to be utterly dumfounded by the idea that humans may do things in private that they don't want shared with the world. At times it was hard to tell if they were being willfully oblivious and condescending or simply fucking with me.
4. Patents Keep the Coolest Innovations Off Your Machine
Lional Bonaventure / AFP / Getty
If you browse headlines at tech sites, these days you'll hear a lot about patents, specifically "patent trolls." It's hard to understand sometimes how this impacts you, the customer, so let me give you an example:
In 1999, Amazon attained the patent for single click purchase. Yep, just that general cheap nike air max womens size 9 concept, which really every retailer should have. It would be like if Nike decided to patent the way we all tie our shoelaces so that suddenly everyone has to either send Nike a check every morning or learn another way to tie their shoes.
Medioimages/
"Does it break the patent if I'm drunk when I do it?"
Then you have someone like me developing the purchase engine for an online game years later the sort of thing that lets your character buy health potions and a sword that turns orcs into chickens or something using real world money. So the character goes into the store and looks at the product list on the blackboard behind the proprietor. He selects the things he wants, maybe sells his extra wolf's bane and cat's eyeballs, and sees if he can afford the sheep gun, whatever. Total immersion. Then, when he's done, the whole thing freezes. He's taken out of the game and shown a meaningless popup with one button. That is there because having the whole transaction only take one click wouldn't be fair to Amazon.
Meanwhile, if you've ever made a one click purchase through another online store, it's because they paid Amazon a shitload of money to do so. Unless you live in Europe, where they've decided that one click shopping is way too obvious of an idea to patent. This is all because it's not at all clear what exactly we should and shouldn't be able to patent when it comes to technology.