Yeah, it’s funny that computers aren’t a specialty thing anymore.
We joke about how “old folks” don’t know how to use their computers, but I think we’re raising a generation that uses them daily and doesn’t know the first thing about how they work. They’re like cars: in the early days of the automobile, to own and run one, you had to know how to tinker with it and make it work and fix and replace components, and then the car became commonplace for the masses and less and less people knew what to tinker with and how.
The majority of people want something they can just boot up and go with, which is why tablets are so popular.
That’s pretty much what I’m saying. But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. We live in a world with so much tech that’s impossible for everyone to know everything about everything they use. And they really shouldn’t have to. Just as cars became popular and easy because more people need transportation than just those who know how transportation works, so have computers become easy.
For me, I don’t see any need to learn how to tinker with my computer. It’s not really going to help me in my future employment. If my computer breaks down, I have friends and the internet to help me. I don’t know the ins and outs but I still need a computer for a great many things, and Macs do all those things efficiently. There’s not much more I could ask for.