Browsers are not the issue here. When Woz designed the Apple II, he imagined that everyone who owned one would write programs for it. Instead, they used it for VisiCalc or Number Munchers. Programmers look at a computer and see possibilities, competing technologies, and a vast environment to explore. Everyone else looks at a computer and sees a tool, something to let them catch up with Grandma without having to call or pay a visit.
The real question to ask is what makes programmers (and their ilk) different from everyone else. I'm convinced the answer is education, but it seems like no one is interested in discussing the sad state of such in the US.
Bottom line: Most people don't care what computer, let alone what browser, they use. All they care is what it can do for them, and faster load times don't seem to make that big a difference.
I don't think education has much to do with it. It's more of an intellectual curiosity and a capacity for independent thought two things which most people lack. How else do you explain children who take to computers at a young age.
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Browsers are not the issue here. When Woz designed the Apple II, he imagined that everyone who owned one would write programs for it. Instead, they used it for VisiCalc or Number Munchers. Programmers look at a computer and see possibilities, competing technologies, and a vast environment to explore. Everyone else looks at a computer and sees a tool, something to let them catch up with Grandma without having to call or pay a visit.
The real question to ask is what makes programmers (and their ilk) different from everyone else. I'm convinced the answer is education, but it seems like no one is interested in discussing the sad state of such in the US.
Bottom line: Most people don't care what computer, let alone what browser, they use. All they care is what it can do for them, and faster load times don't seem to make that big a difference.
I don't think education has much to do with it. It's more of an intellectual curiosity and a capacity for independent thought two things which most people lack. How else do you explain children who take to computers at a young age.