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> On the other hand you cannot talk about anything you do at all

... to people outside of Apple. Apple has 137,000 employees in 25 countries. I’m sure you’ll find someone to discuss your work with.

It’s an interesting thought exercise but there are reasons a product may not work that are not necessarily under your control.

I understand your point and, as I am sure you know, life can definitely be unfair.

Do you think it's so unfair that 90% of students would feel the same way? It's not impossible but personally, I would be surprised by that. Which is the point. Experiences vary dramatically, especially if we broaden the statement internationally, so knowing who was asked what is just as important as the claim.

"Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student."

Does anyone know which study this came from? I was trying to figure out exactly how the survey question was worded because this statistic seems somewhat amazing to me. The driving one I get because drivers are not being routinely graded, but students are.

I googled the phrase and I basically got related quotes, this article (from 2010), and a couple of studies that came after this article was posted, and they were mostly looking at gender differences in preceived intelligence and after a quick glance, didn't seem to support this statement.

Why can't one stick with the old UI with a web application? That's an implementation choice Google makes.

I didn't say anything about minimizing blow back. I agreed that there will be blow back. But life moves on.

> you can't just revamp the UX for a product used by billions of users without some pretty serious blowback... but it is often difficult to justify the benefits of an improved UX versus the productivity hit to all of the existing users.

What you wrote is not wrong. But if Microsoft can change the office UX then Google can do it too.