ext Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email protected]> writes: > But in general, I don't that kind of stuff as "anti-features": Those > measures are there to protect the integrity of the device against > unintended damage, in other words, protect the user from > him-/herself.
Yes, this is important, but it should happen at a low level, invisible to the user. The user knows: "The phone doesn't run with an empty battery since it needs electricity". That the battery isn't really totally empty when the device shuts down for intricate reasons having to do with how SIM cards are broken on a low level is of no concern to the user. "The whole thing is off because the battery is empty." But here we are talking about gratuitous UX decisions: We decide what the remaining battery can be used for. You can send an SMS, but you can't call. You can play music, but you can't install an application. Effectively, we decide that it is more important to play 10 more minutes of music than it is to call someone for 30 seconds. These kind of decisions must be left to the user. We _can_ make the decision that it is more important to shut down the device cleanly than it is to hold the call for 2 more seconds. Because it really is. But the rest is just gratuitous. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
