It was one of the worst computer ideas of the last decade: Google's so-called Gmail "conversation" grouping?
Why?
- Emails in the same conversation that happened to have subject lines changed to reflect the topic (good email ettiquette!) were not grouped in the same conversation anymore. So much for it being "conversation" view. Ever have a conversation in the real world where you didn't change the subject as the conversation went on? No, I didn't think so.
- Emails in different conversations with different people were congealed into useless lumps of aggregated emails just for having the same aubject line. Again, so much for it being "conversation" view.
- It lost emails: you couldn't tell if you got anything new or not.
The fix is in "Settings". And once you do it, it is like night and day. Much better. Gmail's superior spam filtering and searching now together at last with sane inbox organization.
Can anyone think of other computer pet peeves they'd like to see fixed? I can think of a few more:
- Awful non-standard keyboards like the ones with double-high enter keys, or the recent Dell ones with the giant spacebar that gets hit all the time because it is in the way. There should be no good reason why an old IBM keyboard from 1984 is better in design than most keyboards today.
- No keyboard on iPhone. The Android phones seem to always toss one in, but Apple won't put on on the iPhone. Why do you have to pay a lot more to have less?
- Missing eject buttons on the DVD drive. Come on do they cost so much? Two of the last three computers I've gotten were missing them. This is one bad idea that Apple was years ahead of everyone else on: Apple made it much harder to eject discs long before PC makers decided to follow.
- Power buttons. They are hard to use and hidden. Things were a lot better with computers such as the IBM-AT: a clearly labelled button that turned the computer on and off, like a light switch.
Enough techie rant for now. What's bugging you about the machines?
3 comments:
This laptop has no DVD eject button and I hate that! I also don't like that my computer will inexplicably enlarge or reduce the font/screen view. It's maddening.
One of the things that drives me nuts are everyday common phrases that are changed into links and when my arrow crosses them, a window pops up... wanted or not that gives me some information I don't need. I have to stop reading to X them out.
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