Comment Re:obvious.... (Score 2) 407
And if you are going to redesign it, make sure users are able to change it back again! Also, stop disabling important features. In Firefox, you can no longer change the default page for a new tab. What the hell? You can have a home page for when you open the browser, but ever subsequent tab can't be changed? That's infuriating, and totally breaks my workflow. I read Slashdot, I don't give a shit about my browser being easier to use for Grandma.
Support features like the Unity/Global Menu for desktop Linux out of the box—that should be a no brainer! I'm not on a cellphone, I'm on a desktop computer—I don't want a stupid hamburger menu, I want my menus laid out logically, using my screen real-estate without taking up more horizontal space than necessary. I don't care that only a small fraction of people want it—to focus on what most people want is to regress toward the mean.
Maybe, if you want to maintain market share, you should treat the power-users, the ones who make all the recommendations to their friends and families, properly. That's why people use KDE: it can be easy to use, but it doesn't spite the power users to do it. Power users are the only people who are weird enough to have actual loyalty and emotional sentiments regarding a piece of technology, we're the only people that it matters to please. Everyone else treats you like toothpaste—they'll love it and then buy a different brand tomorrow.
Power users care about things most people don't. Cater to us. Maybe one button, at the very start, that turns off every single suggestion and pop-up and offer to sign up for junk—make the button scary to everyone else, like "manual set up mode" or something. I used to get paid removing bloatware from new PCs, I really hate needing to do that to my own box when I install a web browser.