If you're a button, you have one job

The real article getting to the point the author is trying to make is this one https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

In the Google photos app (Pixel 10) there is no animation, the rotation just happens immediately and there's no button press to buffer.

If you're a button, you have one job: to transmit Morse code from the finger to the machine, Morse code representing a complicated POSIX shell command. And also to power down this entire one-button terminal with a 3 second press, power it up on any button press, with a firmware reset if powered up by a 30 second press.

We like buffering of keystrokes or gestures when the system is completely reliable, exhibits reasonable latency and low jitter in its latency.

This is literally the type of thing that caused the THERAC-25 disaster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25). Experienced users hitting keys faster than the app could process them, resulting in safety features being inadvertantly bypassed.

I don’t remember anyone resigning from Apple because of a particular shade of blue. So maybe they have that going for them idk.

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