Agreed. Many people are starting to ask less for a general purpose computing machine and more for something that can go on the internet or watch netfix or use s

Agreed. Many people are starting to ask less for a general purpose computing machine and more for something that can go on the internet or watch netfix or use skype. They want a simple to use appliance like an iPad that simplifies the experience. Want Netflix? Push the Netflix button. Want facebook? Push the facebook button. Technical people will still want general machines that do what ever is demanded of them. I think this will lead to more divergence in the OS market with very simple OSs taking over the 'I just want it to work and I dont care how you do it' market and more technical OSs that let you destroy your computer for anyone else. One worrying thing is that when things just work you lose some people that might have otherwise played around with things, possibly (probably) breaking things along the way, and learning important lessons. I learned to use Dreamweaver from downloading it illegally and playing around with it but it made it easy to write HTML and got me to learn ColdFusion and SQL. Poking around a DOS prompt and accidentally formatting your computer teaches people some important lessons. To me the million dollar question is how to keep kids engaged in the transistors and languages of computers when we start to pretend they dont exist. What happens when the next would be Linus grows up in family with only iPads and iPhones?