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0 pointsRazengan7y ago0 comments

> I'm saddened by the fact that "modern" desktops are increasingly becoming consumption-only devices.

I have been lamenting the loss of the ability to code as soon as you switched on a computer, ever since I moved from a Commodore 64 to an IBM PC clone. :)

You can’t even use $500+ devices as a simple calculator without an “app.”

We need more stuff like Swift Playgrounds, preinstalled on operating systems, but would people care?

The first thing almost everyone wants to do is open a browser and log on Facebook etc.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet7y ago

Maybe those people are the majority of the market, but that market will be served by tablets, phones and desktop web kiosks. The market for actual personal computers still exists, it's just being ignored by everyone because it is relatively small, like it was before the web made computers interesting to the current majority user base.

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