Careless Design From Google and Apple?

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  • http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog/web_design andymurd

    I got that email from Google too and my first reaction was to assume it was spam. Eventually I figured it was legitimate but I still haven’t been To Google Analytics to check out the feature.

    100% of fail.

  • http://www.tylerbell.net tyler

    kill them with fire.

  • Jane

    Hmm, I actually checked that google analytics email first on my phone where it showed up, and then in the gmail webapp..where it was empty. If you show the original email, it’ll show up. Pretty stupid.

    Apple’s recommendations also irritate me. I don’t buy all my music from them (obviously!) but they recommend albums I already have. I suppose it’s a privacy thing not to remember your non-iTunes-purchased music?

  • Evan Wired

    Did you check to see if that iTunes album was a re-release? Quite a few times I have been given alerts for albums that I already had which become “new” on iTunes because they have been re-released, usually with new conversion to digital.

  • http://www.designvsart.com/ Alexis Brion

    Evan, I didn’t check that. Thanks for the detail. Maybe if they are re-releasing the album they should tell the user that, right?

  • Wes

    Personally… not to flame you too hard, but I think it’s just a tad arrogant to think that organizations, even the big ones like Google and Apple, don’t make mistakes from time to time and that their software is flawless. Sure, every programmer would like to think that, but the one who actually does, and expects it to be so, is dangerously arrogant.

    Maybe you’re just having a bad day and that’s why you got angry… but maybe someone at Google was having a bad day too, and accidentally made their day even worse by inadvertently preempting the Benchmarking release with an junk email.

    This blog post doesn’t look professionally at the situation and is nothing more than rant from someone who got their underwear twisted a little too tight.

    I’m sorry if you take offense to this… I just figured I’d let you know why you’ve been voted down lot more than up.

  • http://www.designvsart.com/ Alexis Brion

    Hi Wes,

    Your are totally right when you say that no company is perfect. I also wrote on the article that I admire both companies, Apple and Google.

    Sometimes I present examples of bad practices and as I’ve noticed I always find people complaining about that. Some are in favor, others don’t. Check my article showing how Microsoft Game Zone only works with MS Internet Explorer and you will see that a lot of people complained about that article (is someone really on favor of Microsoft’s monopolistic practices?). I was just showing the reality.

    I love Apple and Google, but I don’t want to be blind to the bad practices or mistakes they could have. Those were just examples, that day I got them from those companies, they could have been from any other website.

    Thanks for you comment.

    Alex