But the fact of the matter is that the average computer, whether it runs the Mac or Windows operating system, can be downright intimidating. You make a wrong turn and you can point and click yourself into a veritable nightmare. A new look at an old problem Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates can probably agree on one thing, and that is that personal computers are by no means as simple to use as they should be, not by a long shot. More to the point, PCs aren't terribly reliable either. They can freeze at unexpected moments, and regularly take one down a twisted path that can lead to a feeling of inevitable doom and gloom.
Computers have to perform too many chores to ever be so simple to use with existing technology.
The folks on such sci-fi programs as Star Trek don't have to fret over computer operating system or user interfaces. They just tell their computers what to do and the systems sort it all out for themselves. The nagging complexities of personal computers are most definitely shared by other electronic devices. Over the past few years, I've purchased several mobile phones, for example. That's even larger than Apple's manual for the dual-processor Power Mac G4 on which I'm writing this column.