I know where you're going with this. Personally, I believe both. Very much like an auto when you think about it. If you do not understand the "basics" of such a machine and how to take care of it, you'll end up ruining it. Take 'most' women and how they treat cars for example. I'm sorry, but they're quite hard on 'em! Mainstream women and PeeCee computing is another great example. MOST women I've ever known working with computers do not know a LOT of things that would help them maintain better PC health throughout the years. Like small children, I see a lot of them double-clicking when they're not supposed to (which can crash a Windoze system quite easily), removing disks from drives before the little light goes out, referring to the entire computer system as a "hard drive", accepting and downloading attachments which are more than likely viruses - all that good stuff. And yeah, if lifelong observations like this make me a "sexist pig", well... OINK?! lmao
So... unless computing is going to be "perfected" as much as it can be (some of these latest Apple products are trying to be an appliance), then I think there should be better education about the usage of them all around. Like we had in the 70's and 80's.
A computer that behaves and is solid as an appliance - great. No reason for computing to be any more complex than it needs to be for carrying out a particular task or two. Just be sure the consumer purchasing it knows exactly what it's capable of and doesn't ask much more of it than that.
