Wonder which feature will be used less. Widgets on Mac OS or this?
At least with widgets you could see they were there and experiment. Without some visual clue no one will know these exist and will have been forgotten about by February.
I’m an Apple nerd and didn’t know about this feature until this article. Even then when I tried to have Siri “play ambient fireplace” it “couldn’t find anything.”
Because software documentation is like having all the articles of a scavenger hunt, and those that want those articles have to know they want them, then find the person that has them, and when they get frustrated and ask, “Why don’t we have this feature???” Some smart-aleck points them to a site that has what they’re looking for and treat them like they’re lazy, a fool, ignorant, or a combination of all of them.
Then there’s the Release Notes Model, where it assumes that the reader knows everything, and just needs to know the new things the software brings in. Without the comprehensive user manual, release notes are more of a marketing document than a source of information, as the cumulative release notes are needed to actually know what the device does.
Above all, it’s a negative experience of search, and maybe “find”.
Wonder which feature will be used less. Widgets on Mac OS or this?
At least with widgets you could see they were there and experiment. Without some visual clue no one will know these exist and will have been forgotten about by February.
I’m an Apple nerd and didn’t know about this feature until this article. Even then when I tried to have Siri “play ambient fireplace” it “couldn’t find anything.”
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Then there’s the Release Notes Model, where it assumes that the reader knows everything, and just needs to know the new things the software brings in. Without the comprehensive user manual, release notes are more of a marketing document than a source of information, as the cumulative release notes are needed to actually know what the device does.
Above all, it’s a negative experience of search, and maybe “find”.