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Comment by joshstrange | Hacker News Reader

I disagree, the whole package is still my top priority, it's just that Apple is winning in performance (aside from GPU/graphics) and UI/UX right now. I think Apple has stumbled on UI/UX in the past fews years but I still feel they are leagues ahead of the competition. Windows and Android still drive me crazy and feel substantially worse in UI/UX than anything Apple has put out.

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my girlfriend recently had ads in the browser from microsoft urging her to use bing for a month to earn a few dollars in amazon credit. I was baffled how you can cripple the UX of your flagship product without any respect to it, and in such a cheap, tasteless way.

The people building these things aren't using them (at least not in the standard user configuration)... or they don't have the ability to stop these things from going out.

so install firefox + uBlock Origin for her?

The ads are in the browser interface itself

also I wasn't really talking as if there's not fix for it, but the sabotage of MS on the UX of their flagship product. It feels cheap and not pleasant to use if you're bombarded with ads and stupid cortana-stuff.

I really don't like the painting of business leaders as heroes, but here it feels a little bit appropriate: I bet steve jobs would have fired you on the spot for this. And the managers under him would have never dared to do this and still don't.

I thought Google had generally great UI, even if Apple might be a bit better.

I have plenty of complaints about Google but their UIs are fine.

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