I can't wait for this to get into cars. Who doesn't want a perfectly empty dashboard with all the controls crammed into the right corner.
It's already in my fucking car. I went to go buy an aftermarket stereo "upgrade" and every goddamned one has all of the options and controls accessed by a menu navigated with one pushbutton knob. Not a single choice was available with the [enter] and [exit] command functions on separate controls from the [select/scroll] functions.
That's right. Want to change the time and date, press the knob, then spin the same knob until you get to SYSTEM (not SETUP or FUNCTIONS mind you), then press the button again to select TIME SET, then again to set the hour, spin it until the hour is set, then press it again, then spin it to set... and oh shit you hit a bump and pressed the knob accidentally so you're advancing the AM/PM now, exit all the way to the SYSTEM menu and start over...
It's the same way with things you need to access frequently: audio quality controls, station settings, etc. They're all buried two or three layers deep in a menu accessed by this press/twist control that is very easy to accidentally bump. And if you aren't watching what you're doing, a single bump will activate one of the options (RFDS?) that resets every fucking station preset to the factory defaults. (If you've seen someone on CA-101 suddenly scream at his car stereo and trying not to smash the faceplate in rage, that was me or another Pioneer customer.)
In addition to being susceptible to bumps (unheard of in a moving vehicle, right?) you can't dead reckon -- and you can't see what the next/previous selection is going to be. You have to constantly keep your eyes on the display not the road. And the fucking things are all so dim you need a second hand to shade the display from the sun, so now you're using both hands and both eyes to operate the goddamn radio.
It's the shittiest idea to come along in user interface design since the god forsaken Office 2007 toolbars. Worse.
I think the same pissant who worked on the Office UI team in the mid-2000's went to work for Pioneer shortly thereafter. He wasn't finished fucking with people's heads.
Now, apparently, he's at Mozilla.