Computers would get simpler
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In an interview with MacAddict, you said that you hoped computers “would get simpler, but they always get more complex.” Do you still feel that way?
Woz
Yes. It’s hard to explain many functions and error messages. Even the words are very hard to understand. The basic simplicity and the sophisticated features of powerful programs are hard to find, especially since menu and setup wording is not the best. More than almost anything else is the problem of having lots of interesting and fun and useful programs that don’t go well with the latest OS upgrades. It’s sometimes very hard for anyone but an expert to solve such problems. So the students wind up being slaves to the technology, less important in some respects than the administrators. For a while, when we started, things were reversed.