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> Currently, the popular idealized interface is finger-touch, such that even a toddler can figure it out. OK. That's bad... why? How is it bad to remove accide
by derleth 14y ago
> Currently, the popular idealized interface is finger-touch, such that even a toddler can figure it out.
OK. That's bad... why? How is it bad to remove accidental difficulty? 'Accidental difficulty' being difficulty imposed by a bad interface, such as how annoying it was to drop a deck of punched cards. Sorting punched cards is not an essential part of programming; it is accidental. This terminology is due to Brooks, in The Mythical Man-Month.
> Styluses and keyboards and other peripherals are ostracized as laughably archaic/geeky ways to do input
As long as keyboards remain available, reasonably high-quality, and not too expensive, I'll be happy. If most people don't use them, that's fine with me.
> the result has been more passive consumerism than active creation of media
Most people have never created most kinds of things. Most people don't want to and are not good at it.
Besides, whenever we do focus on user-created media, what do we do? Laugh at blogs and GeoCities pages. There is literally no way to please the kinds of people who think Idiocracy makes good points.
> Ow My Balls
Bear baiting. When bear baiting makes a comeback, come talk to me.
- williamcotton 14y ago> Most people have never created most kinds of things. Most people don't want to and are not good at it. Why do you say this? Almost everyone I know makes SOMETHING and they normally like doing so and are proud of their creations. It could be a batch of cookies from a personal recipe, a well crafted letter to a newspaper, a hand knit bedspread, or a nicely decorated living room. People are making things all of the time! They might not be making things professionally or for distribution, but to say that they don't want to and are not good at it is very short sighted.
- derleth 14y ago> Almost everyone I know makes SOMETHING and they normally like doing so and are proud of their creations. In 2004, relatively few of the people I was listening to voted for George W. Bush.