This is very true. However, I'm reminded -- ironically -- of the old Mac vs. PC situation. For many sorts of application, there would be dozens of choices on the PC and a single one on the Mac, of which the one on the Mac was far and away superior to all the PC options. (Examples include: FTP clients, desktop databases, low-end graphics applications. I understand there are others in video and music editing.)
The thing being a desktop consumer taught me in the 90s is that I don't need a thousand applications all of which are crap, I need a few applications which DWIM. Choice is a false value. What I want is quality, for which I don't need choice, and which, contrary to what certain economic/political doctrines teach, was not a product of choice.
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Date: 2009-07-27 09:44 pm (UTC)The thing being a desktop consumer taught me in the 90s is that I don't need a thousand applications all of which are crap, I need a few applications which DWIM. Choice is a false value. What I want is quality, for which I don't need choice, and which, contrary to what certain economic/political doctrines teach, was not a product of choice.