Mandelmus 2 hours ago | next |

> Thriving companies like Arc and Linear build an entire aesthetic ecosystem that invites users and advocates to be part of their version of the world.

Afaik Arc still has no revenue and no clear path to a business model, so I’m not sure I’d call it a “thriving company.” I like and use their browser but I fully expect it to die once the money runs out, because people won’t pay for a better looking browser.

ein0p 2 hours ago | prev |

> Software is good enough

I beg to differ. Software won’t be good enough until a normal person just tells it what to do and it does what the human asked. 95% of people are completely unable to use software beyond checking email or watching YouTube or playing a game. That’s not “good”. “Good” would be to tell iMovie “make this look more like The Matrix”, or telling Expedia “book a full trip to Shanghai, with non-stop flights and hotels near such and such”. You get the idea. Let me do more, free me up so I could stop wasting time on bullshit. That’d be “good”. What we have now is mostly laughable.

mpalmer an hour ago | root | parent |

When we get to where you're talking about, I think it'll still be easy to find someone who's not satisfied.

Software and technology in general have been reducing and creating bullshit in varying proportions since the start. People a hundred years ago weren't worrying about the hassle of booking a flight to Shanghai because it wasn't possible.

ein0p 24 minutes ago | root | parent |

Yes but now that it is possible I shouldn’t be spending half a day to do it. We’re on the verge of computers _finally_ becoming full blown assistants rather than just dumb tools that you have to painstakingly learn to use and then operate by hand, and people are saying we’re “done”. Just before computers are about to become dramatically more usable for people without “computer” skills.

Freedom2 7 minutes ago | root | parent |

Why are you spending half a day? I rarely spend even an eighth of that doing tasks that people here claim to take them ages? Have people forgotten how to use computers or is the UX for those really that bad?