Fear-based apathy and laziness. Technology is always cumbersome in it's infancy. Think it was easy the first time these people drove a car? How about operated a microwave? My dad used to cuss the microwave daily. "Damn new-fangled gadgets." Now he's a pro. Technology should work for us, yes. However, these so-called "challenging" technologies are not that difficult. There's nothing worse than someone who won't do something technical for themselves because either they fear it or "I can't understand this stuff." Excuses. Take setting up an HDTV. Is this really a difficult process? Cables are provided. Picture-laden instructions show you where to connect them. The channels you are supposed to view are labeled "HD" in the name. Come on... we are supposed to be intelligent adults here. Remember the toy you had as a child where you put the triangle into the triangle shaped hole? Are people really sitting around scratching their heads trying to put a component cable into an hdmi port? The truth is people want their cake and eat it too. "I want HD, but just make it work for me." Ah the consumer mentality. This attitude in general really just sucks.
Of course this is all just my opinion.
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Fear-based apathy and laziness. Technology is always cumbersome in it's infancy. Think it was easy the first time these people drove a car? How about operated a microwave? My dad used to cuss the microwave daily. "Damn new-fangled gadgets." Now he's a pro. Technology should work for us, yes. However, these so-called "challenging" technologies are not that difficult. There's nothing worse than someone who won't do something technical for themselves because either they fear it or "I can't understand this stuff." Excuses. Take setting up an HDTV. Is this really a difficult process? Cables are provided. Picture-laden instructions show you where to connect them. The channels you are supposed to view are labeled "HD" in the name. Come on... we are supposed to be intelligent adults here. Remember the toy you had as a child where you put the triangle into the triangle shaped hole? Are people really sitting around scratching their heads trying to put a component cable into an hdmi port? The truth is people want their cake and eat it too. "I want HD, but just make it work for me." Ah the consumer mentality. This attitude in general really just sucks. Of course this is all just my opinion.