This blog entry is an edited excerpt of what I wrote to my bank today when I saw that it has jumped onto the Window 8/ Google "The same GUI is good for all computing platforms" bandwagon. But first, a comment about the stupidity of this Google blog site in which "normal" type face is too small to comfortably read but the next size up IS THIS GIANT CRAP. Done.
Excerpt: Sane person to world: I'm not one of the apparent 99% of morons who rushed out to get a 24" touch screen & joined the latest exercise fad & cover my PC monitor with greasy fingerprints. Thank you, I all ready have arthritic shoulders from plenty of upper-body exercise & I'm totally comfortable operating my PC with a mouse at waist level on a table top with little movement, so I don't need to buy a 24" touch screen & Windows 8 in order to figure out that a mouse is preferable with my desktop PC.
Oh and has anyone seen yet the fancy new specialty ribbon monitors that are apaprently designed by and for String theorists? I jsut can't figure out why they would have such a specialty monitor in Best Buy! But have 29" ribbon monitors! Or I think they are special purpose because they are physically as well as resolution -wise no taller than a 20" inch screen! They'er just 9 inches wider but still 1024 px high!
Meanwhile, like i said, all the websites have 3 inch tall icons and 36 point type for everything, so that only about 3 lines fit vertically on that screen, therefore the 29" monitor has to be specially made for virtual ribbon cutting ceremonies or watching CinemaScope movies. But last time I checked PEOPLE mostly WATCH movies ON TELEVISIONS, which actually get TALLER as THEY get WIDER. Is there no end to the stupidity that is humanity? I see all this stupid crap that everybody accepts without comment and think to myself that i must be a dumb alien child adopted just after I hatched by even dumber humans cuz on my own merit, i don't feel very smart. It's only when I get out in public and become immersed in all the human stupidity around me that I get to feeling like I have superior intelligence. It's the same feeling I get around dogs & 2-year-olds, which I like because they listen better than 20-year-olds do, which to me, makes the 2-year-olds and the dogs smarter than the 20-year-olds that will jump at the chance to buy a 29" touch screen ribbon monitor for their desktop PC.
But I see 5/3 Bank has jumped on the Windows 8/ Google, 1 platform for all devices, touch screen bandwagon with the giant print taking up my entire 24" screen with 5 bill payees instead of the 15 I could clearly see & use before. Now all I need is a 2" (wait, 5/3 has the banner too) banner at the top with 3 useless things taking up more space on my screen a la the new PayPal. BUT MOSTLY, on the bill payment page, THERE IS NO BUTTON ANYMORE TO SUBMIT THE PAYMENTS (the button was there but buried in one of 3 side scroll bars due to the oversized payees in it's panel).
Doesn't anyone check anything before it goes live or stop to think "Hey, you know what, a phone is a different, much smaller platform & maybe neither Microsoft nor Google are right. Maybe 2 distinct GUI platforms for phone & PC was best & there shouldn't be the same interface across computing platforms."
I GUESS NOT HUH!
Of course not, because it's easiest to blindly follow (& not incidentally have the luxury of being able to self justify your jobs) than to think for yourselves, right?
I DON'T BANK BY PHONE, I don't use a touch screen on my desktop & I 'M NOT BLIND.
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