When I got my parents their first android phone, the app drawer worked on swiping left/right. Then came the change in orientation where the swipe went to up/down
Someone on here, I don't remember who sorry, commented that Snapchat works by deliberately breaking UI conventions that people have grown accustomed to who have used computers for a while. That's the mechanism by which they exclude older people and "lock in" people who have little pre-existing computing experience. I strongly suspect this is exactly what the Android developers are trying to do as well.
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When I got my parents their first android phone, the app drawer worked on swiping left/right. Then came the change in orientation where the swipe went to up/down
Someone on here, I don't remember who sorry, commented that Snapchat works by deliberately breaking UI conventions that people have grown accustomed to who have used computers for a while. That's the mechanism by which they exclude older people and "lock in" people who have little pre-existing computing experience. I strongly suspect this is exactly what the Android developers are trying to do as well.
Interesting. You could make a similar argument that companies embrace the latest, trendy software framework to weed out older experienced developers.
Here's an article which talks about Snapchat and confusing olds : https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-snapchat-built-a...