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[Ben Finney]

Hans Georg Schaathun <hg at schaathun.net> writes:

> On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:31:45 -0700 (PDT), alex23
>   <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> :  On May 12, 7:24 am, harrismh777 <harrismh... at charter.net> wrote:
> : > We need to move away from 'canned apps' to a new day where
> : > the masses can sit down to their computer and solve new problems with it
> : > through intuitive language skills.  Why not?
> : 
> :  Because the vast majority of them don't seem to want to be bothered?
>
> Why does that matter?  There is a sizeable group who need computers
> for purposes not (sufficiently) supported by the `canned apps'.

Those people, outnumbered by the masses as you say, are thereby not
themselves “the masses”.

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