HP never invented a round mouse.
A fantastically expensive cube floating on perspex.
A slippery "which way up is it" remote for their TV appliance.
Keys so flat they're worse than typing on glass.
RAM so expensive you'd think you were in a fancy restaurant whose only profits came from side dishes and the wine list.
The dysfunctional disaster that was MobileMe.
And, why... yes, I am an Apple fan.

Another perspective, not corporate, is that I reported to them an unintuitive behaviour trap in their app store, and their support people agreed, and it was fixed a year later. And another anecdote, a Store employee suggested to me that I cite my EU rights, and therefore they'd have to fix my thing.

I'm not saying corporations aren't inherently inhuman, dehumanising machines, where the systems and silos become anti-pattens, just that to some extent maybe they're not the worst.

It does cost too much when the penalties are so small.

Also, it isn't just whether it can replace one person with something automated, but whether it can replace the thousands of other similarly low-skilled but different jobs as well. Can the great machine do everything?

There's also something about the principle of rewarding or at least protecting or honouring the people who have skills and dedication, rather than treating them as an annoyance.

Yes. There's one objective material world, yet everyone has their own inner movie that they're experiencing. Now, if all is material, then there's no need for that inner experiencer. We would just react and process like a machine that's sophisticated yet has no sentience. A machine could replicate a human in every way without needing to also be sentient. But people who deny the problem kinda claim that the sentience is irrelevant, or an illusion of sentience, yet if you were not sentient then there would be no you experiencing life at all.

Yep. One of the many ways otherwise productive reasonable smart people are made by the system to waste time in mindless drivel and be paid to do so. Meanwhile people who do produce actual survival value get run into the ground.

Yes, I agree, I think it is making society worse. It's the classic sci-fi story where a technology is invented that's so powerful we actually end up destroying ourselves because it amplifies our worst natures, i.e. forbidden planet. Human nature hasn't changed that much in thousands of years. However, at the same time, the technology does seem to work in positive ways that are unexpected. Kind of like how the internet is increasing transparency and starting to deconstruct all the propaganda that we've been living under for hundreds of years. There are these weird, subtle beneficial effects which seem to happen despite us, and perhaps that's one saving grace.

I agree. I think each form factor exists because of how it fits with the environment and the person and what the person is doing. There are many times when having a huge monitor just gets in the way. There are times when having a keyboard gets in the way. There are times when not having a keyboard is a huge ache. People mention CAD files. Even there, sometimes you're much better off being able to tap in coordinates quickly on a keyboard than trying to drag and drop with a mouse. Sometimes the mouse is better. Sometimes you want the environment to be distraction-free, and a kind of single app device with just a screen works fine. There are many contexts, and I think the form factors exist because they suit these different contexts. The form factors which don't want to exist, I think the market will find it votes them out because they're just as useful as a pair of jam trousers.

I think they call it "hallucinate" to give the impression it's intelligent.

And if they simply let the tool be what it is, then people could understand the nature of the tool and use it in ways that made sense. A reader's digest of the Internet. It's this pretense that it's thinking or that it can give you answers, as it were, that seems to be its undoing.

Consent isn't even a good one to use, as it must be freely given. What if you just want to buy a drink without giving your PII away?

As an Apple fan, I am glad that there is one company at least that's breaking ground in design, however, they also make some bloody stupid mistakes. Some examples: the hockey puck mouse, "holding it wrong", Apple TV remote, MBP thin keyboards, charging too much for components, and now this.

It's western ideas about diversity, done to westerner standards and interpretations.

The world actually has many interpretations about what diversity should look like.

Not just the USA or western european post modernist versions.

The things like IP address are just for show. The real question is whether, in context, it seems reasonable that you would have signed it. Anyway, a service like DocuSign is on thin ice. They know, and stated in their SEC filings, that any competitor could easily do what they do.