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"power users" — the affected gits that fancy themselves knowledgable because they aren't afraid to click through dialog boxes and wizards, install inane themes,
by blasdel 16y ago
"power users" — the affected gits that fancy themselves knowledgable because they aren't afraid to click through dialog boxes and wizards, install inane themes, randomly strip files and kill services as 'optimizations', and copy-paste inept blocks of sudo-ridden shell from linkbait tutorials. Lifehacker readers.
Apple managed to almost completely marginalize them with the introduction of the App Store (nobody's writing jailbreak apps), but Google's been courting them aggressively from day one.
In decades past they'd have been bickering over their choice of microcomputer platform on BBSes, from the Apple II and C64 to the Amiga and BeOS. Now they have the real-time internet and the companies they partisanly prostitute themselves for are the largest in their sectors with market caps from 80-220 billion dollars.