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Originally Posted by drgoodtrips
From my understand, you're a lot more savvy than the average computer user, who would basically be most pleased by having a button to click for internet, one to click for printer, and one to click for games. With consoles getting browsers and faster processors/more VRam and much, much cheaper than PC's, this user is going to have little interest in buying a PC that does word processing, Quicken, Excel, etc, etc when all he wants is games and a browser. I'm seeing this firsthand with "broke" people my age who couldn't afford PC's and used to "do internet" in an internet cafe or whatever, but now do it all through their Nintendo Wii's.
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I dunno, obviously the internet is a big part of what a computer is used for these days, but I don't see consoles being any real threat to PC's at all. Personally I don't like the idea of being without the flexibility of a PC. Granted, I'd say my folks (who are entering their early 50's), use the computer for maybe two things for the most part. Surf the internet, and check mail but even they want the ability to do all the things you say they don't need even if they'll never do anything. So no, I don't see people going for a simpler platform with limited capabilities when they can have it all.
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Originally Posted by drgoodtrips
That is, device interaction and management in the OS is going to be split off from actual software based needs and interests.
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Sounds interesting, but how does it work exactly? I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around that idea to be honest. I mean I get it more or less, but I don't see how it would work.