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chimeracoder on April 23, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly p...

> Consistency throughout the user experience and, most importantly, consistency through time.

> Macos ui is largely frozen in 2002ish

> IOS is frozen in 2008ish

This is verifiably extremely incorrect? Lots of things about the core UX of both platforms have changed since then. Heck, even turning an iPhone off isn't as simple as "press and hold the power button" anymore.

thsksbd on April 23, 2024 [–]

Now do Windows. Circa 2002, so you're baseline is XP. Go through those UI changes and the change backs.

Don't forget the detours! At one point (purportedly) MS had a phone and they made their desktop look like a phone UI.

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