>Phones and tablets? Complete write off. My smartphone is basically a toaster.
You say that like it's a bad thing. For the vast majority of people, they wish their computers behaved more like toasters, rather than finicky, customizable, yet extremely powerful pieces of computing machinery that they are.
I don't want the world to change so that these devices don't exist. I'm just sad that there aren't options. It feels like a huge waste of potential. Creation benefits us all.
In a world without something like the IBM-compatible PC we'd likely never have gotten to the point of creating smartphones because the tools simply wouldn't exist.
For some reason this makes me sad, I guess it's similar to a motor enthusiast being angry at someone who thinks a car is "just a car". In my opinion, computers deserve to be more than consumer content endpoints.
The vast majority of people are idiots who shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer with a barge pole, though. I don't really care what kind of experience they want.
You say that like it's a bad thing. For the vast majority of people, they wish their computers behaved more like toasters, rather than finicky, customizable, yet extremely powerful pieces of computing machinery that they are.