Tumble, coil & fumble

It is an interesting conundrum with geek reporters or podcasters for that matter. By sheer definition one would think their purpose is a beacon of things to come. But lately they are more reminiscent of the clerics accusing Galileo of heresy for daring to change the status quo.

Change and those who make it happen are always mocked by those opposing it. That is completely normal. I’ve seen that myself when I gave up on Flash five years ago and did the same stuff using more modern means.

For about 30 years we’ve become accustomed to looking at a screen straight ahead, our hands resting on a mechanical keyboard and a mouse next to it. An era that is about to end.

I’d be surprised if 10 years from now we still use physical keyboards and mice. Pens, more likely will remain as precision instruments in the graphic arts  architecture and 3D modeling. But for the vast majority the iPad concept of a singular device that adapts to the needs of the user will be most prevalent.

As a desktop replacement, the concept of a large iPad is not hard to see. It would give use the benefit of loading it up with graphic cards and memory since we no longer have the case constraints of the extended 1990s.

And that is what’s scaring those geeks. Their world is changing. Things they spent years on understanding is going away to something entirely different.

You can see some signs of that happening when comparing Apple’s iOS platform to Google’s Android platform. While the iOS user experience is tailored to new ideas from the ground up, Android is pretty much a desktop operating system at heart and mind with the face of an iOS clone. Which is a bit like qualifying for surgery because you’ve seen one on TV.

It’s really for this kind of geeks I talked about earlier. People who can’t let go of the desktop concept. Their minds are locked to that concept and that concept only. So they make a huge stink about how you can’t do this and how you can’t do that. How 3rd party browser plug-ins from and ending era don’t work. It is reminiscent to a mortally wounded dinosaur making it’s final roar. 

It has already begun, the Darwinian Opera sounds its overture.