Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
05:12 - You can't fix stupid, especially when it's you
http://funkatron.com/site/comments/were-the-stupid-ones-facebook-google-and-our-fail
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Interesting follow-up point in the ongoing iPad thought revolution:
When folks need an elevator, we should give them an elevator, not an airplane. We’ve been giving them airplanes for 30 years, and then laughing at them for being too stupid to fly them right.
I think we’re the stupid ones.
Indeed. Have I ever in my life heard a novice computer user complain that their applications had too few features?
The photography world had this right all along: someone dabbling in it as a hobby would just get a cheap snapshot camera and take occasional vacation or holiday pictures, and in some cases would get really good at it and start working their way up the food chain to bigger and better (and more complicated) equipment, once they ran up against the limitations of their gear. But someone who runs out and buys a full-featured SLR as his first camera will just end up leaving it in green-square mode the whole time, having paid way too much for something he has no need for and which becomes utterly useless if it slips into the wrong mode and starts taking pictures too dark or whatever until he finds a camera nerd who can move the dials back to the right settings and say "There you go! Want me to show you how f/stops work? It's easy!" —Upon which he runs for the hills.
SLRs will always be necessary. But sooner or later we have to start making disposables.
Via DF.
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