Jonathan Blow

Sorry, this was “smart people are too smart for”, but my stupid-ass phone keeps thinking it is smarter than me, and Twitter would rather add 200-acre Moments tabs than an edit button. Also the downfall of society.

FWIW, I turned off autocorrect on my phone 6-12 months ago with no regrets. I frequently look dumb because of my typos (see original tweet) but I figure "stupid" is preferable to "easily misread in a low attention span context" these days

I tried that and it also drove me crazy. What is so hard about, if it autocorrects a word, put it in a red bubble I can clearly see and tap on to revert the correction? But no, they are too pompous for that. It’s silly how bad these people actually are at design.

I think you should actually full-on rant on this one. Like, full-length, researched, akin to the talk you did on civ. We can GoFundMe a videographer crew. I'm ready to pull the trigger on this one

Like, part of me is "calm the fuck down," and part of me is still demanding a reason that the entire internet doesn't look like Stripe everything. They just clearly make the sensible decisions and this seems extremely difficult elsewhere

It is crazy how bad it is. (I have a backlog of talks to do though ... and that is not even my real job, sigh!!) It even extends to the physical world. The consensus praises good Apple design, but they designed phones so that they would slip out of your hand or any non-perfectly-

flat surface and then shatter on the ground. Which is why it was not a mistake that you would see shattered iPhone screens everywhere ... it is what they designed, and why everyone has to put a case covering up their beautiful slippery iPhone body.

Apparently they felt it was more important for it to feel like a precious gemstone than be a functional device, and judging by sales maybe they were right ... in a sense they design for the flaws in the human personality.