Comments on: Why Features Don’t Matter Anymore http://labnotes.org/2006/03/04/why-features-dont-matter-anymore/ Tue, 15 May 2012 02:41:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Assaf http://labnotes.org/2006/03/04/why-features-dont-matter-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1653 Assaf Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:00:25 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/03/04/why-features-dont-matter-anymore/#comment-1653 That's a great quote. It also captures my impression with Gnome which lasted all of ten minutes. Sexy, slick, but doesn't do anything. Being an advance user, I don't mind a few tweaks to get it working, I just couldn't figure out where to begin. That’s a great quote.

It also captures my impression with Gnome which lasted all of ten minutes. Sexy, slick, but doesn’t do anything. Being an advance user, I don’t mind a few tweaks to get it working, I just couldn’t figure out where to begin.

]]> By: Yip http://labnotes.org/2006/03/04/why-features-dont-matter-anymore/comment-page-1/#comment-1652 Yip Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:52:34 +0000 http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/03/04/why-features-dont-matter-anymore/#comment-1652 Whoever makes generalization like these are likely to attract a lot of replies. To your point at #10, I agree. Let me recapture what Linus quote here. He was referring that Genome is making the 20% feature inaccessible to make the 80% simplier to use. “Usability” is an issue only if you can do something at all. But if you can’t do the thing at all, it’s pointless to talk about usability: the thing is BY DEFINITION not usable if it cannot be used for a specific task." Whoever makes generalization like these are likely to attract a lot of replies.

To your point at #10, I agree. Let me recapture what Linus quote here. He was referring that Genome is making the 20% feature inaccessible to make the 80% simplier to use.

“Usability” is an issue only if you can do something at all. But if you can’t do the thing at all, it’s pointless to talk about usability: the thing is BY DEFINITION not usable if it cannot be used for a specific task.”

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