The expression "low-hanging fruit" usually means small things that are easy to pick off, for just as much benefit as harder things. It's a useful term for potential development work that might have outsized gains for the efforts.
Gruber seems to be using it instead to mean things that are easy to think of, regardless of their size or worth, which strikes me as a journalism-centric worldview.
Why hasn't humankind cured cancer? It's such an obvious next step. And when we do, I can write an article about how there are fewer things to have walkathons for.
Yeah, I was thinking about the same thing. Weird article name. A lot of things people brought up in this thread are nice to have, but not fundamental things that Apple needs to work on.
It would be nice to fix some of the UI issues though.
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The expression "low-hanging fruit" usually means small things that are easy to pick off, for just as much benefit as harder things. It's a useful term for potential development work that might have outsized gains for the efforts.
Gruber seems to be using it instead to mean things that are easy to think of, regardless of their size or worth, which strikes me as a journalism-centric worldview.
Why hasn't humankind cured cancer? It's such an obvious next step. And when we do, I can write an article about how there are fewer things to have walkathons for.
Yeah, I was thinking about the same thing. Weird article name. A lot of things people brought up in this thread are nice to have, but not fundamental things that Apple needs to work on.
It would be nice to fix some of the UI issues though.