According to Apple, there are five seconds in a minute!
I just did a software update on my MacBook Air, and near the end, the screen said there were five seconds left. i watched and watched, but the number didn’t change. I did Mississippi-one, Mississippi-two and so on. I stopped at about Mississippi-thirty. A bit later, the counter disappeared. And a bit later, the system rebooted.
Yahoo! Finance redid their web page several weeks ago and took away drag and drop. I have a list of symbols in a TextEdit file that I would drag and drop in the symbol look-up list. I have been using this successfully and satisfactorily for years. Then poof! It didn’t work! I now had to copy and paste. Gosh! Drag and drop has been an Macintosh feature for over twenty years. Now Yahoo! decides its users don’t need drag and drop.
This week Yahoo! Finance flummoxed its users again by providing some very circuitous means of providing a list of quotes. Instead of a spreadsheet-like page, they have buried a text list on the side of the page. By some magical clicking, one can get the spreadsheet listing, but I haven’t memorized it yet.
Many users left comments complaining about this, but I doubt if there will be any change. Some threatened to go to Google Finance. I tried Google Finance and didn’t find it any easier to use.
My suspicion is that corporations put together focus groups and browbeat them into accepting what management wants to do. Then management browbeats long-time customers into accepting the changes by saying the changes were what focus groups wanted.
Of course, there are many fine corporations that bend over backward for customer satisfaction. Toyota has had some bad recalls, but many of their dealers bend over backward to provide customer satisfaction. My examples are Kari Toyota of Superior WI and Maplewood Toyota of Maplewood MN.
For the likes of the corporations that screw up the customer experience, I can only say that the U.S. Postal Service has historically provided far superior service, when Congress lets it. And believe it or not, the IRS too. I have had the IRS send me corrections on my returns, both for underpayment and overpayment.
