I think we’re missing the point here.
The point is in a standard UI. A toggle on or off means precisely that. If it will mean something else it should be made clear. And it’s not. Why is it not made clear?
Well how do you say it in a nice way:
Let me put it comically to defuse some anger although Anger is understandable if your ability to control your own phone was hijacked by the company you trusted.
“hey users were apple here (or UI) so listen don’t talk, we decided what’s best for you and we’re stripping you from the ability to control your devices, do you want to switch off your Wifi:/ no you don’t need to, we know please don’t interrupt. We’ll make it look like you did control it so even if you did, click this or that, it dunt matter, we’ll switch it on for you at 5 am, why 5 am. You’re probably be sleeping and won’t know what hit you lol. thank us later. Bye suckers hahahaha”
This certainly impacts user TRUST with the design ->product and ultimately ->company.
So now the question that begs itself is. What else do we think were switching on/off that is switching itself on at 5am.
And can we really, really know that it actually is!
The toggles are not new by any means. They were on iphone 3G with jail broken phones, and funny enough they did what they were meant to do. It took apple years to catch up and got it wrong. Oops now apple doesn’t even realize they’re ruffling feathers of their own flock. Yikes!
We know we can go to settings and switch it off. But we’re not working with an obscure phone that costs $50. This is iphone or iPad and is expected work with minimum effort, and expected to do the most obvious thing.
All the excuses are worth a $1 coffee, at dunkin, and Are frankly lame. Users should have full control of elements that are in the control center. I’m surprised people are not infuriated by this.
I mean even basic devices from other companies would not go there.
This without a doubt hurts the brand and the trust users had for iPhone as a secure device is now not intact. (First step that could lead to divorce)
The silver lining is that if apple UI smarties keep on deciding badly for users we will eventually look for better choices else where.
Apple is not the only company that saw the light because of the leadership of one person and will jot be the last.
Now who will take advantage of this sudden demise of the apple products and capture the market. Making users satisfied again. We’ll just have to wait and see.
With respect to all
