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I wonder if some early aviators were outraged when commercial pilots first started piloting people around in closed bodies: "Why do you need a pilot when you c
by sambeau 16y ago
I wonder if some early aviators were outraged when commercial pilots first started piloting people around in closed bodies:
"Why do you need a pilot when you can fly these babies yourself?",
"The wind in your face is half the joy!",
"Flying is supposed to be dangerous!".
- CodeMage 16y agoIt's easy to cry "dinosaur" when you're using a flawed analogy. Your flying analogy is about the evolution of a technology whose purpose has been narrow right from the start: get people and/or things from A to B real fast. Computing has very quickly evolved from a narrow purpose of "executing computations" to something extremely versatile. In that context, iPad is not really the evolution of computing, it's a specialization of one part of it.
- roc 16y ago> "Computing has very quickly evolved from a narrow purpose of "executing computations" to something extremely versatile." [emphasis mine] Has it? I mean, from the user perspective. Whereas PCs are extremely versatile, curated walled gardens like Facebook and the iPad argue very loudly that versatility itself is not something users care about. Certainly not at the high costs to usability and stability that have traditionally gone hand-in-hand with it. It may very well be that only those on the bleeding edge are willing to pay those costs.
- stcredzero 16y agoIn that context, iPad is not really the evolution of computing, it's a specialization of one part of it. Note that most people's experience of aviation is on airliners, which are highly specialized airplanes.