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I think you’re right and it’s sad. There could’ve been a way to gradually disclosure complexity that ended up inviting and educating the masses. OTOH, I know s
by tambourine_man 4y ago
I think you’re right and it’s sad. There could’ve been a way to gradually disclosure complexity that ended up inviting and educating the masses.
OTOH, I know seniors managing huge WhatsApp groups, installing apps, upgrading OSs, migrating backups without blinking. Those same people couldn’t install a single app on Windows if their life depended on it.
We could’ve done better, but it’s unquestionable that there’s been some democratization of essential tech.
- asdff 4y agoYou have to wonder if the democratization of this tech would have happened anyhow even with a more complicated OS. I like to think it was inevitable. We like to think we as consumers have choices that lead to things reflecting our wants, when really our wants reflect what the market is able to make available as a potential choice to us consumers. The inevitable smartphone would have been in everyone's pocket I expect, just like how the inevitable flip phone was in everyone's pocket, just like how the inevitable everything else ended up in everyone's home and life: it was there in the store when the advertisements told them it was time for them to buy.
- tambourine_man 4y agoThe hardware was inevitable. The software, not so much. Apple made a lot of compromises, constraining a Unix system ™ to a huge degree in order to make it extremely simple and usable battery/ram wise. Those compromises had costs.