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demanding that non-techies get technical
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this has been given up long ago (unfortunately) instead there are more and more devices with
less options made, just to assure that people can use them
without really learning anything (or as you call it "without getting technical")
just imagine a world where real cars start to vanish being replaced with ahm
things, which:
- have no gears and brakes but one pedal: you step on it: you drive; you release it; it brakes,
- just to be sure they make max. 20 km/h
well I admit they would not be as efficient as real cars, but nobody would really need again to learn for a drivers license and
get technical with all those boring traffic rules, braking times, etc. pp wouldn't it be just great?
It sounds silly with cars doesn't it? 15-20 years ago it sounded silly with computers... now it' is more and more reality.
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but also let techies tinker away
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unfortunately THIS is shrinking - as you see on Apples example they:
- don't mind since the nontech usergroup grows bigger and bigger
- prefer it this way, since they have more control themselves
it isn't only Apple - try to disassemble a mobile phone (let's take motorola or nokia) just to remove 3 f***,bloody crumbles of dirt, which found their way inside somehow and now happily reside on the inner side of the housing just in the mid of the f*** display and you can't get rid of them, because (after retrieving the bloody "service manual" (contains instruction how to disassemble device
without completely breaking it-and its not for the common public) you find out that you can't do it without
2 very special screwdrivers and 1 very special case lever tool.
oh brave new world that has such tech-stuff in it...
its the direction of this path
in general what gives me a shrug... do
you want to live in a world where you need to call for service personnel just to exchange a lightbulb?