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2010-10-20 , 10:16
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Much the way you can attribute Microsoft as the company to make computers, in general, mainstream. A tad more fundamental credibility creds there to Microsoft, going by your reasoning, no? Nonetheless, I understand your point--Apple did generally get credit for popularizing computers for the rehabilitating technophobic and the logically impaired.

Well it wasn't Microsoft to roll out the GUI was it? In fact i'm pretty sure Gates even said it would never catch on. Apple may not have invented it, but they did popularise it, and honestly, isn't that a good thing?

I see no problem with things being simple, really why should a computer be any different than a tv or a car, which you expect to just work as you want it to i.e. show images and move without breaking down. The simplification of technology has helped more people embrace it, because most people aren't developers or techno-whizzes, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Now, I'm not suggesting that all technology should be locked down, design over function or anything like that, i hate the iPhone, i like the option to tinker like i have on the N900. But that's the thing - i like the option of being able to tinker, not absolutely having to just to get something to work, and I think that's true of most technology users. The GUI and mouse 'simplified' things, but who would argue they were detrimental?