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I don't think he did, I think he was commenting on the UI implementation.

Just because you think the interface to something isn't designed well doesn't mean the underlying feature is worthless.

> because I don’t really know the difference between my choices. I have no real idea what the tradeoffs are in picking one app over the other. nd if the difference is so negligible, why do they even offer both.

It's clear he's referring to the apps themselves, and he views the choice iteself as intrinsically worthless. So yeah, he completely missed the point.

Shipping a phone with two photo management apps just seems like a mistake to me in the first place.

I thought he was arguing a consequence of that (and the interface) and not the intrinsic value of Intents, but that may be my reading.

@MBCook you are correct. I have no problem with being able to make a choice. I have a problem having to make that choice out of the box between two pieces of software shipped by the same company. It's like they couldn't be bothered to settle it so they just punted the decision to me.

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