On 02/20/2014 12:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
One app "with simple default choice and advanced options"
effectively
*is* two apps, uncomfortably shoehorned into one UI. You get all the
disadvantages of complexity with none of the benefits of simplicity.
This is why it's a model most apps have moved away from.
OK, I lied---I will
respond with one more post.
You'd be right if it really was two apps, shoehorned---but I really
think this case wants to be one software installation UI with several
search selectors, just like apper, which actually has a
'graphical/non-graphical' search selector. Use the 💻
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%9F%92%BB> glyph at low-res as a
screenshot/logo, to show our disdain for older apps, if we must.
Surely you agree that it's possible to overdo such app specialization;
my favorite example of such specious differentiation is dedicated
droid/ios apps for every website (reddit/slashdot/whatever).