The computer industry is boring these days. People are looking to cell phones and tablets to resume some of the excitement, but let me be honest: It’s all terribly boring.
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\nHistory shows a computer industry that was traditionally exiting, leading edge. It was crazy! Nerds had ideas and made a ton of money.<\/p>\n
There was the transition from text-based computing to graphics.<\/p>\n
There was the transition from monochrome to color.<\/p>\n
There was the Internet and networking everywhere.<\/p>\n
Revolution after revolution, but for the past few years: Nada. Seriously, Windows 7 is really no different from Windows Vista, which is really no different from Windows 95. You could sit down at a computer with any of those operating systems and be in familiar territory.<\/p>\n
In other words: Boring.<\/p>\n
The problem with kicking up new dust in the computer industry isn’t lack of innovation. There’s plenty of that. It’s that people are now conditioned to accept and use boring.<\/p>\n
Microsoft has become McDonalds. They deliver up the same, consistent, pitiful hamburger no matter where you go. People like good food, but they count on Mickey D’s because they know it will be the same, cheap, awful food every time. Can’t you just say the same about Microsoft Office?<\/p>\n
There’s room for innovation, but no incentive for it. After all, you couldn’t compete with McDonalds unless you decided to become Burger King, and where is the innovation in that?<\/p>\n
So that leaves me pondering how the computer industry can save itself from the stale, boring state it’s entered. Or can it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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