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Infantilizing the Computing Public

7 pointsby craigcover 3 years ago

2 comments

smackeyackyover 3 years ago
A very long &quot;get off my lawn&quot; rant about a non problem. I have plenty of customers who have been crippled by hard to use software and confusing operating systems. It wasn&#x27;t until android and iphones came along that any of them really got comfortable with computing (farmers skew older).<p>Just because it doesn&#x27;t look like whatever nostalgia has done to your memories doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s bad.<p>Nobody uses an apple ii for anything serious any more and for good reason. The blinking cursor on a green screen is a wonderful challenge for a small number of people. For ordinary, non technical folk it was an inscrutable warning light that only lead to more puzzles the further you got in.
type0over 3 years ago
Apple is very good at infantilizing their users, it&#x27;s disgusting<p>just look at this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=f0Gum8UkyoI?t=566" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=f0Gum8UkyoI?t=566</a>