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That is like saying if a car manufacturer put in an extra foot pedal next to the gas and brake pedal(in your car) and said it was for extra gas mileage, but actually it put the brakes on and you loose gas milage.
I think this analogy is flawed - there's no deceptive practice and the functionality is not redundant. But to follow along, drivers can accelerate into trees, traffic, and their garage doors if they don't know what they're doing.
You are saying that I should spend all my free time researching their screw up? It acts like a glitch, looks like a glitch, it is a glitch! Come on. You must be a software engineer.
A glitch is an error, or as you say, a screw up. But in this case the program works as intended. You don't like the functionality - fine, that's a matter of opinion. But it's not broken because someone doesn't like it, or someone could do the wrong thing with it.
Overstatement and personal attack aside...
you're actually the evidence for my postulation. You recognized a possibility and chose to find out the facts. That's good common sense. My point is that there's a balance to be achieved between protecting people from themselves and giving users the power to do whatever the heck they want. I think popping a warning after someone selects "format drive" is a good idea because of the ramifications of that action. I don't think that hiding or removing some functionality from a media program because of possible rash user actions is always a good idea. But if the developers want to implement a popup that I can hide forever, then I really don't care. It's when capabilities are removed, or non-optional popups are added to trivial functions for "my own good" that I become... less happy :-/
I want to note how proud I am of stating my case without drawing obvious and trollish parallels to freedom of speech, gun control, drunk driving, or Apple ownership... oh, nevermind
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