industry consensus in 1984 was very clear that a mouse and GUI was 'infantilised'. That's not a useful mental model
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It's also not a reasonable model to assume that children will use the same software when they're adults
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of course. However, as a matter of fact adult use shows the same pattern
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I think this is the most interesting set of statistics:pic.twitter.com/UD03EtaWbl
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To me it’s an argument about the internet extending to new contexts of computing.
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Desktop computing hasn’t really declined over the last ten years. Computing just fills up unused areas.
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the mainframe install base kept rising through 2010
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So presumably those people who were arguing it was going to go away in the eighties were wrong!
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Honestly, desktop usage probably *will* start to decline, but still seems more stable than people argue.
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: eh, I'm only arguing that web trying to span both without adopting to tighter constraints == failure
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