[VLM]

"Especially that the whole point of dictation should be that you're not actually looking at the screen"

I've noticed UIs always get "needier" over time. Call it VLM's Law. In the old days a dumbphone could be operated tactile in total darkness without looking at it at all. Then smartphones came along which needed occasional glances at the screen to verify the screen and touch screen position/orientation (portrait vs auto-rotated landscape). Now you need to stare continuously at the screen to watch mistakes in the speech to text dictation system as you slowly, tediously, agonizingly argue with a machine.

How clumsy of a UI, like going thru life wearing oven mitts. And VLMs Law is it always gets worse over time. It'll take a lot of work, but we'll find a way to make UIs even more painful.

[TeMPOraL]

Yeah. What I loved about dumbphones and feature phones was not just keys - it was that they had firmware instead of a full-blown OS, and thus predictable timing. I could operate my K800i in total darkness without looking at it, because I knew that, say, "joy-click, wait for around half a second, left, joy-click, down, joy-click" would take me to my messages. If I tried something like that with my S4, I'd end up pretty much wherever, because the UI likes to hang for half a sec every now and then.

#nostalgia