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I recently gave in to Apple's persistent pestering and upgraded to iOS 7, and gained Obligatory Log In; repeated demands that I Backup my iPad {which is of course already Backed Up}; and repeated demands that I log in to iCloud {Which I want nothing to do with, for purely personal reasons}.
I got so used to angrily hitting the Left Option of the dialogue box that I did it before reading -- and realised the word vanishing from under my finger was 'Trust'. What had I done?
The repeated demands that I Backup, Log On etc were now joined by instructions to log into the App Store, with my Apple ID and Password, complete with keypad to make it easier. {Three or four times in five minutes.}
Fearing the worst, that I'd unintentionally granted a hacker access, I shot off to the Apple Store, and got my iPad stripped down to its underwear, and re-installed, naturally with the very latest version of iOS 7.
And came face to face with the new, complex, user unfriendly procedures built into the software.
What happened to Drag 'n Drop?
I used to be able to open the Books section in my iPad window in iTunes, grab a .pdf file and drop it into the list. Seconds later it was uploaded, and available.
Now I have to put it on a conveyor system.
A fact that I had to discover for myself!
This criticism also applies to the App to read them.
iTunes said I had the App, {True} and that my iPad was Synched, {True}. I only found out after trial and Error that I had to select both the .pdf files and the App to read them, in not obvious pages in iTunes and Apply, before they got synched successfully.
Presumably, the creator of the conveyor system thought he was helping.
Changing a simple, pretty-well fool-proof event, into a complicated, foolish-mistake-inviting system is not helping. But it does seem to be a trend that IT in its broadest sense is following.
Apple,
If it's not broke, don't fix it, and especially don't replace a common, familiar, simple, fool-proof action with a complicated, hidden, user-unfriendly, system.
I recently gave in to Apple's persistent pestering and upgraded to iOS 7, and gained Obligatory Log In; repeated demands that I Backup my iPad {which is of course already Backed Up}; and repeated demands that I log in to iCloud {Which I want nothing to do with, for purely personal reasons}.
I got so used to angrily hitting the Left Option of the dialogue box that I did it before reading -- and realised the word vanishing from under my finger was 'Trust'. What had I done?
The repeated demands that I Backup, Log On etc were now joined by instructions to log into the App Store, with my Apple ID and Password, complete with keypad to make it easier. {Three or four times in five minutes.}
Fearing the worst, that I'd unintentionally granted a hacker access, I shot off to the Apple Store, and got my iPad stripped down to its underwear, and re-installed, naturally with the very latest version of iOS 7.
And came face to face with the new, complex, user unfriendly procedures built into the software.
What happened to Drag 'n Drop?
I used to be able to open the Books section in my iPad window in iTunes, grab a .pdf file and drop it into the list. Seconds later it was uploaded, and available.
Now I have to put it on a conveyor system.
A fact that I had to discover for myself!
This criticism also applies to the App to read them.
iTunes said I had the App, {True} and that my iPad was Synched, {True}. I only found out after trial and Error that I had to select both the .pdf files and the App to read them, in not obvious pages in iTunes and Apply, before they got synched successfully.
Presumably, the creator of the conveyor system thought he was helping.
Changing a simple, pretty-well fool-proof event, into a complicated, foolish-mistake-inviting system is not helping. But it does seem to be a trend that IT in its broadest sense is following.
Apple,
If it's not broke, don't fix it, and especially don't replace a common, familiar, simple, fool-proof action with a complicated, hidden, user-unfriendly, system.
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