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I don’t know if it’s most people, but it’s probably a lot of people on Hacker News. A friend reminded me only a very small percentage of people in the world a
by mch82 6y ago
I don’t know if it’s most people, but it’s probably a lot of people on Hacker News.
A friend reminded me only a very small percentage of people in the world are programmers. It’s easy to forget that when almost everyone I work with daily is a programmer. The iPad is amazing in many ways, some of which are not meaningful or visible to people immersed in software development.
- arethuza 6y agoMaybe it's because I did a bit of embedded development (a long time ago mind you) - but I've never felt the urge to develop software on every device I own. Developing software for devices - absolutely, but on every device - definitely not.
- ghaff 6y agoAnd, while converged/all-in-one devices are attractive, they're rarely without compromises. Sure, an iPhone pulls in a lot of function from what used to be standalone devices and those functions are usually good enough for many people, possibly screen size trade-offs notwithstanding. But from my (and only my) perspective, computers are relatively cheap enough that I don't mind having a number of them optimized for different tasks--one of which is an iPad for mostly consumption mostly for when I'm traveling.
- rimliu 6y agoIt is sad really. That means that a lot of those programmers have no idea who are they programming for. And it shows.