Okay, that was a weird read for me. The dissonance element is that the author seems to have transitioned away from using a computer and forgot to change their e

Okay, that was a weird read for me. The dissonance element is that the author seems to have transitioned away from using a computer and forgot to change their equipment. Let me explain what I mean by that. I would speculate that the majority of "computer users" today, are simply "logged in users at terminal equipment"[1] as they say. Their terminal, which is typically a web browser (or a thinly skinned web browser "light" client), is connected to an application on the actual computer somewhere very far away. FWIW this is a very 70's and 80's vibe where you could access your application from any terminal that was connected to the computer hosting it after going through an authentication process. If you had a fancy "mult-page" termainal that could run several virtual terminal sessions then you could have "tabs" open to multiple applications. Today we have really really fancy terminals, they can have 50, 100, even 200 different sessions going on at once. And with the author I agree, if your terminal is actually a computer that happens to be running a terminal application so that you can get to the things you really use to do your job or what not, then the metaphor is uses for organizing itself as a computer is outdated. For Apple fans iOS is that terminal of choice, Chrome "OS" is that for Google apps. There isn't a Microsoft version of this yet that I'm aware of. In my opinion, tt is this "terminal-ness" of the usage that is most single handedly responsible for the absolute stagnation in perceptible performance improvements. No matter how fast your local machine runs, it can't make the network or the remote system any faster so your user experience is the same. Not true for locally hosted applications like games of course (not something terminals were able host locally.) All of that is a long way to say "You want to design a better iOS/ChromeOS then go for it." [1] This is the origin of the term "lusers" or logged in users.