| ▲ | piokoch 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Frankly? Who care. Napster had even worst GUI, yet it has become popular as it just did the job people wanted. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rithdmc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Did Napster have many competitors at the time? | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | latexr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> Frankly? Who care. Lots of people. It’s great that you don’t, really, but Calibre is very ugly¹ and I have no doubt that limits its adoption. Subconsciously, people associate ugly apps with unpolished or unfinished apps. I don’t use Calibre (I rely instead on command-line and bespoke tools) but I do recommend it to less technical people and I always make it a point of saying “it’s very ugly but it does everything and does it correctly, it’s the gold standard for what you want to do” because I’m pretty sure if I didn’t add that disclaimer the people I recommend it to would think they downloaded the wrong thing or abandon it as soon they opened it. ¹ That’s just personal opinion, we don’t need to have a debate about that. If you find Calibre beautiful, more power to you. | |||||||||||||||||
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