Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
Most men prefer a proper computer, whereas women and children get by quite well with the simplicity of a tablet.
So, women and children are too stupid to use proper computers?
It's not a question of intelligence, I think it's a case of tablets being computers for people who don't like computers very much, and/or who aren't interested in computers, and/or who don't understand computers.
Now I'm not for one second suggesting that women are incapable of understanding computers, I've worked with a few female techies over the years and they've been as good as any bloke (very, very much in the minority in numerical terms though), BUT, the fact remains that 'computer geekery' is still very much the domain of the male - for better or for worse.
Going off my own family and circle of friends, the people who've latched onto tablets are the women, the old people, and the children, and the blokes who don't like computers.
Indeed, my bestest chum (the one who comes over every year to visit) has practically attached himself to his iPad via an umbilical cord, I don't think it's any coincidence that he's never built a PC in his life, has always sort of 'tolerated' one at home rather than actually liked it, and every time anything has ever gone wrong with it, he's carted it off to PC World or suchlike to have one of their 'experts' look at it. He loves his iPad mostly because it separates him from having to get entangled with his PC on any sort of regular basis.
Please understand there's no insult intended with what I've said above, I've just found that tablets seem to find the most favour with people who don't like computers in the traditional sense - and that tends to be women, children, and old people who don't like technology very much.
I can appreciate tablets and what they do, and by all accounts they have actually shifted the entire demographic of 'computer users' (just Google around the subject), but I think there's a reason why they've done that - and that's because they make using a computer very much like not using a computer ever used to be before.
(And yes, I do realise that's progress and I applaud it on that level
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