Kids today are the technology gurus. They have access to the same information as adults, so why wouldn’t they become more adept than us…they foster less preconceived notions and are able to look at things often more objectively than we.
Take Windows Vista for example. It was my two teenagers who first showed me Vista’s new skins. That’s where they stopped and went back to their games. I asked “Is that it?” to which their response “Daddy, XP radically changed Windows from 98. Vista is just a bunch of Mac OS copycat stuff”.
Its quite likely that there’s at least a little more “meat” on Vista than simply the skins, yet what this reflects is a simple trend…MAC is the future for these kids. Now they’re even engaging me in bets whereby if they reach a certain grade performance, they get a MAC instead of a PC.
The MAC has attained the same kind of status as an iPOD? Not quite. These same kids tell me that when it comes to music playing, it doesn’t really have to be an iPod. So the fact is that they are really judging these products on the merits of their performance, and not just the image it may bring them in school. Well, maybe just a little image too!
Interesting how the minds of children can often be much clearer than our own.
Sass