How do you feel about the "post-PC" world?

[Rainbird]

alekth said:

Rainbird said:

Post-PC simply refers to a design paradigm where you design your software in a way that makes it as easy as possible and as nice as possible for your users to use it. And I agree that post-PC is a bad name to pin on it, but it's nice to actually have a term for it.

Then just please give examples from current PC stuff that's easy and nice and such that isn't. It really isn't the same for everyone. Once it becomes drool-proof enough, it's actually more annoying and difficult to people who want more control and customization.

Hmm, actually I was wrong, because it's both software and hardware. Anyway, it's not about sacrificing depth either. It's about improving the way users interact with the hardware, which can happen through software design, hardware features and combinations of the two.

Stuff that is easy and nice to use is things like Windows Media Center talking to your Xbox 360. You run the program, you do the same on your 360, and bam, it works. You can still customize it if you like, but it just works out of the box.

The opposite would be something like writing in LaTeX. Yes, it produces beautiful results, but it's really way more complicated than it needs to be. To write your text, you need to wrap it in another language. It's asinine!