And even worse, no glyph to denote the deviation

Better title: Sometimes people do dumb shit, even powerful people

My understanding is that this is outdated advice.

There are definitely some vendors who respect an unsubscribe request, and some who don't. No way to tell ahead of time.

I won't buy, ever again, from someone who doesn't respect the unsub request.

A vendor I never interacted with emailing me usually has no respect of me.

This is what happens when one's performance is measured by "impact".

Rounded to the nearest percent, I'd guess power users make up 0% of android user base.

That is true but they are also some of the most vocal advocates of certain systems. It is a king of trust errotion that doesnt show up for a very long time but by the time it does it is too late to reverse.

Tge flipside of that is that Google and Apple have no viable alternatives. It would take years to build what they have.

It took Huawei about 5 years with Harmony OS to do it but odds if that making it far out side of China is limited.

Is it because people genuinely don't care, or because the barrier to become a power user is becoming taller and taller every passing year?

Is it because Android literally has billions of users across the world.

A large portion of which are using it in a feature phone capacity. Many only use smartphones because it’s what their carrier gave them after their old candybar dumbphone either broke or became unable to connect to cell towers.

The other groups are those who use it identically to how they would iOS (and don’t root or sideload), those that use it as computer replacement, and those who just like to tinker. Those last two groups are a tiny, tiny sliver relative to the others.

Especially once you start counting car entertainment systems, POTS terminals, digital signage, and hundreds of other classes of devices that are not genera-purpose toys.

And what is your view on the percentage of power users among iphone user base? Also zero? One hundred? So interesting.

The share of power users on iOS might be larger than expected because a lot of people working in tech fight computers for a living and prefer their phones to be simple appliances assigned to a relatively focused set of tasks.

You are talking not about Apple's walled garden. Don't confuse a skilled power user with a pesky celebrity who always prefers one button over two buttons because of complexity issue.

I am, though. Someone who uses their phone for mail, chat, music, and calls with everything else being done on a proper computer has little to gain from sideloading, and plenty of computer power users use their phones that way.

I know because I’m one of them and something like 70% of my SWE colleagues I’ve known — including Android users — fit that description too. Most have never sideloaded anything and maybe 20% have flashed their phone with an alternative ROM or rooted at some point.

An individual being good with computers or even being capable of programming has little bearing on if they’re also a phone power user.

Why installing software for power users should be in a sideloading form?

Maybe the sideloader is a power user in comparison to the celebrities, but who is a real power user is those who can to sideload without the sideloading. Power users of your smartphone are: top-management of the vendor, the Government and 0-day scene. Sideloading actor IMO is just a poser to the idea of a power user.

Snoop-phone useds are powerless.

> Most have never sideloaded anything

I have never told anyone what I, ahem, install.

Next maybe they will use a binary format instead of JSON.

Stop reading ahead.

You'd only use the Oxford comma when the list is 3 or more items.

Still funny.

This all seems like a direct result of measuring employee performance using "impact".

Relying on staging means no offline development and also leads to toe-stepping. Cheap local implementations are great for consistent tests.

100% this. I've used AWS emulation layers for local-first development going on the better part of a decade. I cannot stress how much time it saves me from pushing code that would have failed in staging. When the cost of deployment pipelines via cloudformation is so high, it's a no brainer.

DIY mocks alone can get you somewhat there, but that relies on the developer having intimate knowledge of the aws sdk under test and it's very easy to mock the inputs and outputs wrong. I'd rather defer that to an emulation layer that does that mimicry better than my guess and check with 30m between attempts when my cloudformation deployments ultimately fail...

How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?

Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.

Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

A lot of the examples in here, I can't find? Like, I looked around for the new smart folder with the cog icon, where is it on my mac? Same with save as check, where is that? Also I'm pretty sure (although I can't find it) the save as with the up arrow is save as out to something? The ones I do find, all make perfect sense and work pretty well for me, they're not totally perfect but I'd never thought about them much before this post and I use them almost exclusively. Look at all his new for example, see new finder window? Look at the box around it, then open your window menu at the top of your screen, see how minimize has the same box around it? If you go though those icons set, most of them have: primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary visual clues. I dunno, I read that blog post and it doesn't really jive with me. I'm sure they could stand to clean it up a bit, I don't know I'm not a designer, but I'm certainly glad they are there!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New Smart Folder with a cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Notes.app, while New Smart Folder with a folder+cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Finder.app.

Thanks! I don't use the notes app, cog is not the best icon for that but I suppose it's differentiated from the file system version, if I read them both the same I might be confused, but not sure why they selected cog!!!

Yeah should be an accessibility setting for the few users who need it

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ (second section on consistency)

The later examples are pretty wild, 3 different ‘minimize’ icons? Why? Different teams?

This guy is doing free design work/critique for Apple

A lot of those icon examples are being rather disingenuous. Some of the icon symbol changes amongst the various apps are justified because the actions being represented are different despite using the same English word. Take the "New" icon example. Adding a new reminder is not the same thing conceptually as creating a new note.