The complaint, real or imagined, is that young individuals aren’t building up capital. Home ownership was the bedrock of middle class assets.

One of the core values distilled by Steve Jobs for all Apple employees is “Obsess over the user experience.” (2011)

It’s been inherent in The Macintosh Way from the beginning.

No, they don’t. Issues just get closed.

Oh that statement is so 1992. Millions of people getting a Dell or a Gateway and annoying their techie friend “So now what do I do with this?”

Or 1982.

Users are always non-technical.

Oh MacOS Sequoia the menu items will dodge away as you navigate a right-click menu.

Look at where it came from. Excel was a Macintosh app. By 1989, Microsoft had designed one or two Mac applications to blend seamlessly with MacPaint, MacWrite, and MacDraw. (MacProject became MS Project IIRC.) Word on Mac was a native GUI while Word remained DOS based and Word for Windows was still launched from DOS by typing WINWORD.EXE.

Apple Human Interface Guidelines were foundational to Win 3.1. At the same time, doing UI on Unix I was always asked to solve problems by “doing it the Apple Way.” My secret was the MITRE Corp UI book which surveyed best practices from all platforms and underlined the reasoning.

I decided to believe it was parody. Snowstorm ruining your visibility. Article on bad UX hamming up the bad UX.

That snowflakes were the author’s preference? That’s too much madness for one day.

Listen while I tell of Christmas 1983, when every 14-year old with a VIC-20 got a cheap modem.

Seriously, haven't we been working tirelessly to expand the circle of access? Nostalgia reflects when the circle was smaller, and we felt that we knew everyone in it.

I've come around on this one. you used to be the town idiot who was a flat earther, but thanks to the internet you're part of the community

Thank you. We should each try to be authentic, pay the cost, and hope that is what gets us recognized by an audience we value.

Historical parallel: the advent of newspapers showed the same catastrophe.

No, you are human.

We can hope that "Elements of Style", or similar, comes back into fashion.