Hackers’ greatest concern is the UI?
[Slashdot](http://slashdot.org) links to this [interesting article in Wired](http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,69428,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5) about [Neuros Technology](http://www.neurosaudio.com/), a company with a new portable video player, that has open sourced its firmware development. They hope to get an edge in the user interface department because, according to the article:
Open-source geeks might not represent the typical consumer, demographics-wise. But hackers don’t like to waste time with a clumsy user interface. Just like other consumers, they want a minimum of fuss when they access advanced features, such as transferring files over Bluetooth with the latest Nokia phone or establishing a Wi-Fi connection with a Hewlett-Packard iPaq — especially if they’ve spent hundreds of dollars on the latest and greatest device.“According to a survey we conducted, the greatest concern hackers have is the user interface,” said Born.
Whoa. Really? Consumers don’t really want to know what bit rate their bluetooth connection is running at, but hackers love crap like that. Not to say an open source project can’t produce a decent UI (look at [Firefox](http://firefox.org)), but that’s the exception.