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General purpose computing was never really what the general public wanted. We might go back to general purpose computing for hobbyists.
by phkahler 4y ago
General purpose computing was never really what the general public wanted. We might go back to general purpose computing for hobbyists.
- rfoo 4y agoIt is in our best interest to make the general public want general purpose computing (and make general purpose computing useful for them).
- antisthenes 4y agoYou're going to fight an uphill battle on that one. In my experience the general public's notion of "general purpose computing" is "Well, my phone can do everything I need, isn't that general purpose computing?"
- feanaro 4y ago"Sick of being forced to watch pesky ads instead of the video you actually want to see? General purpose computing is the reason you can."
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> "Well, my phone can do everything I need (...)" Is something that's being said only in advertisements, or by people conditioned by modern mass market tech to feel helpless, and define their needs as subset of what they know how to do on their device. In my meatspace circles, the people who say "oh my phone does everything that I need" tend to regularly ask me to help them with stuff they need, but their phone (or their knowledge of it) is, in fact, insufficient for.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoI think it is the contrary. All our industry relies on general purpose computing. I don't believe the walled gardens will ever grow beyond the most trivial usages of these devices. I believe that a lot of people won't interact with computing aside from their smartphones.