by Christopher Mims, Technology Review
The struggle to make computers usable for the everyday user is done. Finis. Kaput. My toddler can’t even string two words together and he can already navigate YouTube on an iPad. We can all see where this is going: Apple won, the command line lost, and the future of computing will be molded to our needs, not the other way around. Jobs did it. It’s important to understand that Jobs, Gates and all the other geniuses of their era — the time spanning the birth of personal computers as a hobby to the present, which is shorter than a single human life — weren’t merely exceptional. They also lived at an exceptional time, and so had the chance to create opportunities for themselves on the ground floor of what would become the world’s most transformative industry. Looking around, what problem, what opportunity in any way resembles the earliest era of the PC? There’s only one: energy.
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