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What you're seeing is the slow merge of PC's with consumer electronics and the surprising thing is that people actually like it ... What I think is going to ha

What you're seeing is the slow merge of PC's with consumer electronics and the surprising thing is that people actually like it ... What I think is going to happen eventually is that only 'geeks' will have real laptops/desktops. Everyone else will have one of these personal devices (in varying forms of complexity). We live in interesting times.

citricsquid 16y ago
I think if that happens (which seems more likely every day) it'll create a bigger disconnect between creators and consumers than we have now and it sort of worries me. I got involved in making things from my desktop PC just stumbling on "how to make x" guides, if I'd only owned an iPad I don't think that would have ever happened because I'd have to have had made a concious choice to purchase a desktop computer for the "advanced" tasks like creating. I guess it's good for Apple short term, but long term... although I guess the exposure to the app store and similar systems may cause that concious decision to purchase a desktop to create.
- trustfundbaby 16y ago
  You're absolutely right, but is that such a bad thing? I mean right now you could look at it like we're forcing Users to deal on a level of knowledge/abstraction that they don't want to be on ... that is too complex for them, as evidenced by things like users not knowing what a browser is or the inane questions users ask tech support when their computers run into trouble. To take an extreme example ... Automobiles ... I drive one everyday, but I barely know anything about how its built, how it works or how to fix it when its has problems ... now imagine if to start my car in the morning I had to have some knowledge of exactly how a car worked? (You can even substitute a manual transmission for this) ? Wouldn't that be a bad thing? What is going to happen is the segmentation of enthusiasts and experts from everyone else, and I actually think that is a good thing.

citricsquid 16y ago

I think if that happens (which seems more likely every day) it'll create a bigger disconnect between creators and consumers than we have now and it sort of worries me. I got involved in making things from my desktop PC just stumbling on "how to make x" guides, if I'd only owned an iPad I don't think that would have ever happened because I'd have to have had made a concious choice to purchase a desktop computer for the "advanced" tasks like creating. I guess it's good for Apple short term, but long term... although I guess the exposure to the app store and similar systems may cause that concious decision to purchase a desktop to create.

trustfundbaby 16y ago
You're absolutely right, but is that such a bad thing? I mean right now you could look at it like we're forcing Users to deal on a level of knowledge/abstraction that they don't want to be on ... that is too complex for them, as evidenced by things like users not knowing what a browser is or the inane questions users ask tech support when their computers run into trouble. To take an extreme example ... Automobiles ... I drive one everyday, but I barely know anything about how its built, how it works or how to fix it when its has problems ... now imagine if to start my car in the morning I had to have some knowledge of exactly how a car worked? (You can even substitute a manual transmission for this) ? Wouldn't that be a bad thing? What is going to happen is the segmentation of enthusiasts and experts from everyone else, and I actually think that is a good thing.