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Re:The Mac is losing me by raxxorrax on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:39AM (#25147788)
But I could do those things and had a free environment. And non-Apple users can do these things too.

On the contrary, I think younger people seem to get worse with tech, which should not happen but can easily be explained by manufacturers locking down environments.

Maybe they just aren't that interested, true, but I don't think Apple is revolutionary on any one feature to be honest.

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Re:The Mac is losing me by spiderfarmer on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:55AM (#25147879)
I think the M1 processor is quite revolutionary honestly.

Yes, kids these days have less fundamental knowledge about tech. But that's because a lot of problems that were interesting to us are now solved. My son doesn't have to know anything about modems, BBS'es, sound cards and MP3 codecs in order to listen to music. He can just start Spotify on almost every device in our household. It took me months to know how to do that.

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