I'm firmly in the "home computer generation" and it's becoming more frustrating than ever. It's frustrating that everything is going/has gone mobile, because mobile sucks. It doesn't matter what form factor or how fast the phone is, it's just easier to get up and walk over to a computer and do it 100x faster and easier
. (obviously if you aren't near a computer or use specific apps, this isn't always the case).
The problem with how accessible "computing" is these days, which really means tablet and mobile, is that now everything has to be mobile first, which makes everything crappier and less configurable. It gives less power to the power user and we're the only ones who can see that loss. The market is so big now that few billion extra people actually regularly "compute" that of course every company will just keep digging down the rabbit hole to crappier and crappier experiences tailored for mobile only folks and no one will notice but us.
I have a business that sells custom items with a live preview. It fits and works wonderfully on a computer. You can see the preview, the inputs, the helpboxes, dropdowns and everything. But now the entire world just surfs where the experience can't help but be gimped by the size of a phone and how it operates via touch and in embedded browsers half the time. It sucks because people struggle through a process that would be 100x easier & faster if they just opened it on a goddamn computer, but they'll spend 45 minutes fighting through it on a phone. Maybe they don't know any better, but I don't ever see a future where they will and that's sad and depressing. Technology is just getting worse. I can't even get an SD card slot in a phone any more and people don't care or understand why that's insane.
The problem with how accessible "computing" is these days, which really means tablet and mobile, is that now everything has to be mobile first, which makes everything crappier and less configurable. It gives less power to the power user and we're the only ones who can see that loss. The market is so big now that few billion extra people actually regularly "compute" that of course every company will just keep digging down the rabbit hole to crappier and crappier experiences tailored for mobile only folks and no one will notice but us.
I have a business that sells custom items with a live preview. It fits and works wonderfully on a computer. You can see the preview, the inputs, the helpboxes, dropdowns and everything. But now the entire world just surfs where the experience can't help but be gimped by the size of a phone and how it operates via touch and in embedded browsers half the time. It sucks because people struggle through a process that would be 100x easier & faster if they just opened it on a goddamn computer, but they'll spend 45 minutes fighting through it on a phone. Maybe they don't know any better, but I don't ever see a future where they will and that's sad and depressing. Technology is just getting worse. I can't even get an SD card slot in a phone any more and people don't care or understand why that's insane.