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We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

I think we also need to recognize that before Chromebooks it was MacBooks and iPads, with much the same arguments. Mac OS is Unix and thus in principle easier to learn the hardcore stuff, but the interface even back then abstracted enough of the underlying guts away that you had to want to do it and know to do it; you generally needed a LOT less tech literacy to use a mac than a Windows machine at that time. And in my pre-chromebook generation, it was the macbook kids in college who didn't have tech literacy. Apple's goal in distributing macbooks to schools at low cost was to get kids introduced to the ecosystem early on, so when they grew up they'd want to buy Apple computers—because if you grow up learning the Mac OS interface, then switching to Windows or Linux is very hard, and if you learn computers on Windows, in contrast, then Mac OS's highly-abstracted interface feels deeply unintuitive.

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

I think we also need to recognize that before Chromebooks it was MacBooks and iPads, with much the same arguments. Mac OS is Unix and thus in principle easier to learn the hardcore stuff, but the interface even back then abstracted enough of the underlying guts away that you had to want to do it and know to do it; you generally needed a LOT less tech literacy to use a mac than a Windows machine at that time. And in my pre-chromebook generation, it was the macbook kids in college who didn't have tech literacy. Apple's goal in distributing macbooks to schools at low cost was to get kids introduced to the ecosystem early on, so when they grew up they'd want to buy Apple computers—because if you grow up learning the Mac OS interface, then switching to Windows or Linux is very hard, and if you learn computers on Windows, in contrast, then Mac OS's highly-abstracted interface feels deeply unintuitive.

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