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Oh cry me a river! Computer industry wanted to create docile "consumers" who don't do anything useful, so they could sell actually useful devices (for example m

Oh cry me a river! Computer industry wanted to create docile "consumers" who don't do anything useful, so they could sell actually useful devices (for example mobile with keyboards or netbooks with 3:4 aspect ratio) to "professionals" for 10x the price, or "enterprise" for 100x the price. And now you complain about the fact that most of the consumers actually are docile? I really wish the idea of tiered pricing would die, at least to significant extent. Can you imagine living in a world where everybody has access to potentially the best, professional equipment for affordable prices? How much more productive such society could be? I think access to the best technology should be an universal human right!

meeper16 11y ago
Speaking of society, I'd be more concerned with growth problems in social networks like facebook, the next AOL and and former myspace. None have come anywhere near the revenue of Google and its because Google has been doing things are truly innovative and hard to duplicate algorithmically, scientifically and technically since its beginning unlike companies like facebook, friendster, twitter, myspace etc etc
tormeh 11y ago
Common tech bubble problem: Thinking everyone's talented, and the only thing separating us from greatness is distribution of tech.
- asgard1024 11y ago
  No, I am not talking about talent at all! I am talking about the crap that is produced for consumers, that is intentionally making them less productive. Does my mother, for instance, deserve a text processor (MS Word) that cannot read save from one version to the next properly? Or doesn't she deserve a well researched UI (which actually was in the original MS Word!), instead of some modernist crap? Just because she is not a professional writer? These are all things that little by little improve productivity. Or take computers, how today you cannot even install an operating system on your device. People should have right to tinker. To prevent it is making people less able to do stuff, and the whole economy suffers as a consequence. You really think that Eastern Europeans, who during communism often had to resort to "doing to yourself", are more talented than Westerners? The point is great (or the best) technology doesn't require talent to improve productivity. Productivity improvements often stem from things that "just work".

meeper16 11y ago

Speaking of society, I'd be more concerned with growth problems in social networks like facebook, the next AOL and and former myspace. None have come anywhere near the revenue of Google and its because Google has been doing things are truly innovative and hard to duplicate algorithmically, scientifically and technically since its beginning unlike companies like facebook, friendster, twitter, myspace etc etc

tormeh 11y ago

Common tech bubble problem: Thinking everyone's talented, and the only thing separating us from greatness is distribution of tech.

asgard1024 11y ago
No, I am not talking about talent at all! I am talking about the crap that is produced for consumers, that is intentionally making them less productive. Does my mother, for instance, deserve a text processor (MS Word) that cannot read save from one version to the next properly? Or doesn't she deserve a well researched UI (which actually was in the original MS Word!), instead of some modernist crap? Just because she is not a professional writer? These are all things that little by little improve productivity. Or take computers, how today you cannot even install an operating system on your device. People should have right to tinker. To prevent it is making people less able to do stuff, and the whole economy suffers as a consequence. You really think that Eastern Europeans, who during communism often had to resort to "doing to yourself", are more talented than Westerners? The point is great (or the best) technology doesn't require talent to improve productivity. Productivity improvements often stem from things that "just work".