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Why? It has worked fine for that past 40+ years. I don't want my desktop OS to be targeted at the lowest common denominator.
by driverdan 10y ago
Why? It has worked fine for that past 40+ years. I don't want my desktop OS to be targeted at the lowest common denominator.
- dredmorbius 10y agoMore like the past 15 years: OSX was released in 2002, and is a full ground-up replacement for the original MacOS. So there's that. There's the scale issue. Apple served perhaps low single-digit percentages of the PC market, which ranged from the tens to hundreds of millions overall, so millions to tens of millions of users, most affluent and educated. Computer usage is highly democratised now. Which gets to the third point: mobile OSes are targeting user populations in the billions, across the globe, and at all manner of educational and literacy levels. If you think there's any possible way that's not going to target the lowest possible skill level, or that that skill level isn't tremendously low (see a recent OECD computer skills survey across the G-20: about half of all users have either no or the very most basic computer skills), well, I'm sorry. There's a reason wide adoption leads to generally de-skilled products.