| endimion said: and what i hate about portable device is lack of customization.... i mean what hobby dudes will have in 15 years... no one works rwally on cars like before, no one works on house electronic like before, and it looks like no one will be building computer soon... so what's left? yard work? washing/polishing the car.... we need a new DIY wave again :) |
What you hate are what some people love. A tailored consumer device, not a general purpose device.
No one really works on cars anymore. They do, but they don't. The amount of tools required to work on a car today doesn't fit within a toolbox and they've become exceptionally technical. But there are still people who work on cares. Just not like they used to.
No one works on house electronic like before. You have to go a LONG way back to when people worked on electronics. The last consumer electronic that people actively built was the personal computer and that was in the early to mid 1970's. Before the advent of the transistor, people tinkered with their radios and TVs because you replaced tubes.
As long as there is a PC, then there will be a computer that people can assemble themselves. I don't see the age of the PC going away any time soon.
The reason why people get away from working on things like cars or electronics is because the average consumer wants a device to work. They don't necessarily want to know how it works, they just want it to function the way it was designed to. That's why the iPhone and iPad were so successful. Smartphones weren't invented by Apple, they existed long before. The problem was that no one made a device that worked the way consumers wanted to work. You had to learn the device, and you had to find apps, and find services that would work with it. Not to mention, browsing on the web meant either using incompatible browsers, or using sites made specifically for mobile content.
If you don't like tablets, you don't like tablets, but a large group of the population does and they want easy to use, small, lightweight, portable devices that don't require being "setup" to use, but can just be whipped out.
I'm gonna feel really sad for you when self-driving cars become a mass consumer item. You're going to be all sorts of unhappy then.
