[drewm1980]

How about a smartphone brand that promises to never change the UI again after version 1.0? Users can move their buttons around or change their appearance, but their investment in muscle memory is sacred. Before javascript hit the internet everyone used (and frequently declined to update) native apps, and largely controlled their UI, but as a society we just gave that control to web designers. Many Vim and Emacs users never let go, but it used to be GUI users as well; I remember tech savvy mac using university professors with 1000 icons on their desktop that are all there for a reason. They didn't search; they just reached.

[TeMPOraL]

One thing I miss from the pre-touchscreen era: never-changing UI with soft-realtime guarantees. When e.g. using my old K800i, I had memorized sequences of actions and delays (eg: "down, 3, ok, wait ~1 second, down, down, ok"). The delays were consistent. This meant I could operate my phone without looking at it, without even pulling it out of my pocket. This is impossible in the smartphone era, not just because UIs change, but because delays are completely unpredictable.