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With the people I've dealt with who aren't in the tech scene, modifying a computer is black magic. Openness is... not desired. What they want is a consumer appl
by pnathan 16y ago
With the people I've dealt with who aren't in the tech scene, modifying a computer is black magic. Openness is... not desired. What they want is a consumer appliance. Like a TV.
Didn't quite use to be that way. Computer users seemed to be at least a little geek, and wouldn't totally flip at installing a video card. At least in my experience.
So I say, screw the closed systems, I'll keep my PCs and read source code, I'll deep link to web sites from my blogs.
- tesseract 16y agoIt's not just about users being able to install video cards or whatever. You as a developer are going to have a harder time inventing the next email or WWW or Google or Netflix or Twitter, if your potential users are all using closed platforms rather than open ones.
- pnathan 16y agoTotally agree. I'm just observing there's a pretty big gulf between a non-techie and a techie when it comes to expectations of electronics.