Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward
by anigbrowl on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:57AM
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Yes. Years and years ago there was a funny chain email called 'if you car was an operating system' about how different operating systems would make a simple trip to the store unnecessarily difficult. The Mac entry was 'You get in your car to drive to the store, but it takes you to church instead.'
I've had an antipathy to Apple gear over this since the very first tech job where I worked with Mac SEs, because when they'd crash they'd display this amusing bomb graphic and an utterly unhelpful numeric code. There was no way to explain what had gone wrong to the person using the machine (who had just lost a pile of work) and more often than not the more experienced people in the support department would just shrug and reinstall the operating system.
This Fisher-Price toy mentality now pervades personal computing and is making problem solving itself obsolete. Many people just don't have the patience or inclination to figure something out when they could just reset it.
I've had an antipathy to Apple gear over this since the very first tech job where I worked with Mac SEs, because when they'd crash they'd display this amusing bomb graphic and an utterly unhelpful numeric code. There was no way to explain what had gone wrong to the person using the machine (who had just lost a pile of work) and more often than not the more experienced people in the support department would just shrug and reinstall the operating system.
This Fisher-Price toy mentality now pervades personal computing and is making problem solving itself obsolete. Many people just don't have the patience or inclination to figure something out when they could just reset it.