Apparently, the stylus for the new Samsung Note (5) can be inserted sharp end and blunt end. So, what do some users do? They insert it the wrong way causing damage. I have the first Note (1) - you can't put the stylus in the wrong way.
This reminds me a multi million dollar CNC machine that had a left cutting head and a right cutting head so the top and bottom profiles of railway wheels could be cut at the same time.
I asked the installing engineer whether the two heads knew about each other.
He replied: why would they need to know that?
I replied: so no operator can send the left head home via the right head.
He replied: why would anyone do that?
A month later, someone on night shift managed to send the heads home via each other ripping both of them off.
Stupidity is its own affordance?
keith
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