What are some great examples of software that got worse over time?
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uTorrent became spyware
Internet explorer stagnated the whole web
qBittoreent is great. But yes.
Final Cut Pro
Even though the reimagining was interesting the value suffered in my opinion.
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Russian space programs.
Anything communist.
Especially communist things made in the DDR.
I had the chance to "use" a 1715, a lot of patience needed 😆
Tesla, the full self driving that was promised about 9 years ago 😆
Now the serious answer:
Adobe Reader! Totally bloated just to look at a document? And no, I don't want the free trial for editing pdf files. 😆
Pdf editing must be a free product. Cheapest license to do that via Adobe app is $24/m, and it's way expensive.
State of their software is bloatware. I'm thinking same as you.
Netflix and Spotify, they completely shit the bed on human machine interaction standards.
How so?
No consistency in menu items, cluttered menu pages, lots of clickables that users don't tend to use, intuitively corrupt menu options.
For example on Netflix home page the main teaser has a play and a more info button but the thumbnails it's different when you hover over. Clicking a thumbnail plays the item in stead of taking you to "more info". Thumbnails are on slides and stacked in arbitrary categories, which differ for each overview forcing the user to read them again and again. There's a prominent toggle to change the overview, but that doesn't really change anything significantly.
In Spotify home is a jungle of items, when you click home you go back in menu in stead of home. There are somehow several queues for songs and they don't seem to communicate (playlists, album tracks, queue). The "what's new " and "recently played" are prominent but arbitrary and kind of useless. And then settings shows a shopping list of shit.
Makes me wonder if they ever had a computer scientist look at it from a scientific UI perspective, or maybe that person was a fruitcake.
Anything Linux.
The banking system!
Outlook (later supplanted on Windows by that crap named Mail)
Angular JS.
Skype. Skype got so, so bad...
Adobe
Deutschland
easy. Microsoft Office.
Adobe programs
Messengers (ICQ was the good days),
(Google) search engines,
FB
Storage use of OS
Google Authenticator
Most things Google or they got shuttered.
Apple 🍎
Microsoft PowerPoint with Canvas introduction..
itunes, msft office, adobe suite.
iOS. They haven’t done an optimization-focused update in years and it shows.
On my Apple Watch they removed the one-tap button to add a song to my library after Shazaming a song.
I mean…why?
final cut
aperture
Whatever simulation they have us in.
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Outlook, sales force , oracle