Well people are technological illiterates for the most part, but the mobile platforms are dumbed down to such a degree that it would be impossible for people to learn even if they grew up with it. It's a vicious cycle, you have to design these mobile platforms for infants because that's the only way you can keep them safe, but they will never learn anything about computer or network technology using something designed to infantilize them.
The thing is, it's not that I particularly care about people, but it's made Android/iOS incredibly irritating to use, I avoid it as much as I can. It's not just that it wants to protect me from myself, as much as it doesn't let me do what I want to do, it feels like computing with a straightjacket on. Build a fort knox of sandboxes and SELinux, that's fantastic, as long as you give me the keys and blueprints, and for christ sake, stop pretending that my phone isn't a computer.
The thing is, it's not that I particularly care about people, but it's made Android/iOS incredibly irritating to use, I avoid it as much as I can. It's not just that it wants to protect me from myself, as much as it doesn't let me do what I want to do, it feels like computing with a straightjacket on. Build a fort knox of sandboxes and SELinux, that's fantastic, as long as you give me the keys and blueprints, and for christ sake, stop pretending that my phone isn't a computer.