[justsaysmthng]

Some of you might disagree, but there's this thing happening right now with the younger generation: they don't seem to worship technology like we do.

Which is to say, for them - it's not something 'wow cool', it just is.

My 6-year old is fascinated by bugs and trees a lot more than she is by her iPad. I mean, the iPad she just uses. A lot. Like the lightbulb.

But she's quite neutral about all the things that we care about - the cool minimalistic design, the powerful chip inside it, the version of the OS.

Like it should be.

As a programmer, I feel very strongly about my machines, but in the grand scheme of things - especially in the time dimension - our gadgets are just tools which we use to achieve stuff, which are always getting worse as time passes.

[spdionis]

Now this sounds more like the future, where devices are all standard and common.

I don't really care about the brand of my lightbulb. I also barely care about the brand of my fridge. Maybe in 30 years a phone will be just a phone, not an Android phone, or an iphone.

[kaybe]

At the same time, many people still care greatly about the brand of their car.