Re: Consumption is not Understanding
Now we get to the crux of the matter.
We know that tablets and smartphones further remove their users from the muddy world of IT literacy, but how did we end up this way?
Consider, if you will, why these devices were developed. OK, I've used tablets and smartphones myself but mostly in the way they are meant to be used; consumption. That's why companies such as Google continue to develop Android; they get money back from the copious amounts of advertising they generate from your use of their system. Not really what Linux was developed for, is it?
So as Rick says, consumption is what these people use these devices for but consider why they are used that way and who is encouraging this. Not just Google either - Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and so on. They want your cash, they don't care how they get it, they will continue to make it easier to get at it and sod the IT literacy of the world.
(Typed from my home-built Linux based server)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
