Silicon Valley - "It's Apple Maps bad"
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as a joke when threads discuss Apple Maps, botched launches or bad UI.
What it is
A short clip from HBO's Silicon Valley in which a focus group savages a product by calling it as bad as Apple Maps. It satirizes tech product launches.
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Critical DonHopkins · 2021-08 · on “I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos”
Time Machine's "Floating Time Tunnel" user interface for browsing backups and restoring files is such a useless pretentious piece of shit. I DO NOT CARE for it taking over the entire screen with its idiotic animation, that prevents me from browsing current Finder folders at the same time or DOING ANYTHING ELSE like looking at a list of files I want to retrieve on the same screen. [LINK] It even sadistically blacks out every other connected display, and disables Alt-Tab, as if it was so fucking important that it had to lock you out of the rest of your system while you use it. You can't just quickly Alt-Tab to flip back to another app to check something before deciding which file to restore an
Critical DonHopkins · 2024-09 · on “Sanding UI”
[LINK] Time Machine's "Floating Time Tunnel" user interface for browsing backups and restoring files is such a useless pretentious piece of shit. I DO NOT CARE for it taking over the entire screen with its idiotic animation, that prevents me from browsing current Finder folders at the same time or DOING ANYTHING ELSE like looking at a list of files I want to retrieve on the same screen. [LINK] It even sadistically blacks out every other connected display, and disables Alt-Tab, as if it was so fucking important that it had to lock you out of the rest of your system while you use it. You can't just quickly Alt-Tab to flip back to another app to check something before deciding which file to res