On Thursday 25 May 2006 07:37, Basil Chupin wrote:
The result of the experiment was that when faced with a multi-choice situation people did not make any selections and walked away from purchases... ... Can you, or anyone else here, relate to this? I can.
Hi Basil, Your's is a very perceptive and germane post. IMHO, users want computers to simplify, not "complexify" their lives. A vendor's indecisiveness or unwillingness to put forth a single "best" method results, in practical terms, to the decision being handed off to users, who must then strive to understand the intricacies and ramifications of each alternate solution to determine which is "best" for his or her situation. I agree there is flexibility and 'freedom' on this route but, certainly at it's core, package and updates management isn't an inherently complex objective. I'd much prefer to see this list of 'solutions' boiled down to two, at most, with one being the 'daily no-brainer' that is at least semi-automatic and the other being the one worth studying several nights to understand; the latter providing the ability to perform every anticipated function from a 'point and click' menu /or/ via command line and scripting. my 2 cents, Carl