alt Hacker News> Whoever made this decision in Apple seems pretty close to flat out evil.
Could not be further from the truth. Let’s stop such nasty hate for the most minor of things; there are lots of choices one makes when designing software / interfaces / hardware and not every edge case is immediately apparent.
Disclosure: I work at Apple. I also had nothing to do with this change.
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Even though it’s one step removed from literal sabotage, there’s no angle I can see that would render it just a “minor thing”.
It effectively makes it useless for anyone where not showing the presenter’s screen content was critically important.
Unless you know of some alternative method?
>> Whoever made this decision in Apple seems pretty close to flat out evil.
> Could not be further from the truth. Let’s stop such nasty hate for the most minor of things; there are lots of choices one makes when designing software / interfaces / hardware and not every edge case is immediately apparent.
> Disclosure: I work at Apple. I also had nothing to do with this change.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair
In other words, even for Apple, Harlow's razor applies...