The slow death of the power user.
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The slow death of the power user.
"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"
@koen_hufkens I appreciate that this article correctly identifies the (main) villain - Apple, and the iPhone.
But I'm a little annoyed at the claim that no one saw it at the time. I did. I saw the iPhone and I was appalled and disgusted at all the perfectly intelligent people who bought into it and were excited at rushing into the closed garden.
I knew what it would mean at what it would lead to. Not because I was a prescient genius but because I already knew it from video game consoles.
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@koen_hufkens I appreciate that this article correctly identifies the (main) villain - Apple, and the iPhone.
But I'm a little annoyed at the claim that no one saw it at the time. I did. I saw the iPhone and I was appalled and disgusted at all the perfectly intelligent people who bought into it and were excited at rushing into the closed garden.
I knew what it would mean at what it would lead to. Not because I was a prescient genius but because I already knew it from video game consoles.
@koen_hufkens Nintendo succeeded with the NES in producing a humongous closed garden revenue stream, and the entire IT industry was salivating at the prospects of somehow doing the same thing themselves.
All the feature phones and PDAs and Newton garbage and such were closed gardens, but they all sucked because of lack of software and no one really figured out how to make it rake in profits at the desired scale.
Until Apple fanboys lost their minds at the iPod.
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@koen_hufkens Nintendo succeeded with the NES in producing a humongous closed garden revenue stream, and the entire IT industry was salivating at the prospects of somehow doing the same thing themselves.
All the feature phones and PDAs and Newton garbage and such were closed gardens, but they all sucked because of lack of software and no one really figured out how to make it rake in profits at the desired scale.
Until Apple fanboys lost their minds at the iPod.
@koen_hufkens The iPod finally cracked the nut of something super profitable (while also being an iron fisted closed garden).
Its success paved stepping stones to the iPhone, and I could only look on in horrified amazement that people were actually buying into this garbage.
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@OrionKidder @koen_hufkens fun fact, if you mix it yourself you can put as much vanilla as you want in it :DDD
@ireneista @OrionKidder @koen_hufkens
That's where it starts. "Oh, just a little vanilla", you tell yourself. But you can't stop. You need more. MORE. Eventually vanilla becomes normal. Bland. You need the harder stuff. Before you know it you're adding... cinnamon.
