Swiping is bullshit UI anyway. If there's no visual indication of what you can do, it's essentially nonexistent. This mania for turning every UI into a game of Myst is stupid.
What housing report? Is this another one that heralds increasing prices as GOOD? Yeah, let's bring back the bubble that everyone was talking about. Oh yeah, and we all knew a CORRECTION was due, and yet when it happened it was a "crisis." Bullshit.
Also, fuck California for ripping off small businesses and essentially calling them stupid for incorporating in California. If you start a business in California and LOSE MONEY, the state will still charge you $800 a year in "tax."
California is a huge rip-off, fraud, and disgrace. The proposition "system" shifts the burden of legislating to the citizens, many of which don't have the judgment to say NO. And thus the state is saddled with unfundable bullshit year after year.
There's nothing good going on in California. The entire state needs an enema.
The biggest failing of the Mac OS UI is forcing all apps to share a single menu, which remains glued to the top of one screen. This effectively turns your entire monitor into a single window, and encourages developers to spawn a flotilla of floating child windows. Thus you can't minimize or resize the application's UI, because you're herding a bunch of independent windows around.
Not to mention the annoyance of rolling up to the menu and opening an item, only to find that it's not the menu for the app whose UI dominates the screen. If you "quit" Mail by dismissing its UI and revealing Xcode behind it, the menu bar is still owned by Mail. Goddamned stupid.
It also contributes to this asinine mania for keeping apps running, even though you've "closed" them. When I dismiss an application's UI, I want it GONE, not wasting resources.
Wishful thinking and a lack of common sense. Ask them if they check out the number of "likes" a business has before deciding whether to transact business with them. It's a meaningless number. In most cases, you'll have no idea what the total size of the business's market is, or whether its customers tend to be heavy Facebook users. GM might have millions of likes and still suck, whereas a machine shop might have 1000 likes and be the best business of its kind in its entire region.
When you look at ridiculous and desperate flailing like QR codes and businesses begging for "likes", you realize that we haven't learned anything.
These are the thoughts of people who don't even understand how the Web works, and get taken for a ride by consultants.
Kinda like all those businesses that were duped by "Web designers" with cheeseball Flash-based animated demos that later became embarrassing, useless sites. You see this all the time on the sites of non-tech-savvy businesses like restaurants.