On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:55:26 -0500 Mark Woodward <ma...@mohawksoft.com> wrote:
> Problems with computers are mostly over at this point. It isn't about > computers at all. It is about the tasks the users want to accomplish. > You can't make them easier without changing the nature of the task. I recently wrote, in another thread, that consumers don't want choice. They don't want to have to make choices. They don't want to have to make decisions. They just want it -- whatever "it" happens to be -- to work without them having to think about it. Joe Consumer doesn't care about the relative merits of various audio formats and compression ratios. He just wants to play his music on his generic-just-like-his-neighbor's shiny thing. You can make it easier for Joe: remove choices. As Jerry pointed out, FOSS offers a multitude of choices while Windows offers just a few. Apple offers just one which is really no choice at all. Which of these is at the top of the market share pig-pile? o/~ Freedom of choice Is what you've got Freedom from choice Is what you want Give Joe Consumer a one size fits all appliance and he'll be happy. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss