Not surprising though that they thought this.
When I worked computer sales in retail in 1995, I would frequently have people come up and ask me during a sale or some such nonsense: "What would I use this thing for?" Usually it went a little like this:
* Do you write letters or papers?
* Kids who write papers?
* Interested in looking on the internet? No?
* Have a college kid who is on the internet? (do you know what email is?) No?
* Play games? (fairly rare) No?
* Keep track of finances? Don't want to do that?
At this point I just kind of shrugged my shoulders. Outside of some attempts to explain that computers were something good to learn about (in particular for kids), it was a pretty hard sell.
Probably over 50% of the time they asked that question - "What is this thing good for?", I knew where we would end up.
When I worked computer sales in retail in 1995, I would frequently have people come up and ask me during a sale or some such nonsense: "What would I use this thing for?" Usually it went a little like this:
* Do you write letters or papers?
* Kids who write papers?
* Interested in looking on the internet? No?
* Have a college kid who is on the internet? (do you know what email is?) No?
* Play games? (fairly rare) No?
* Keep track of finances? Don't want to do that?
At this point I just kind of shrugged my shoulders. Outside of some attempts to explain that computers were something good to learn about (in particular for kids), it was a pretty hard sell.
Probably over 50% of the time they asked that question - "What is this thing good for?", I knew where we would end up.