Thoughts on Tools Not Apps
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“Steve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind — But what he really sold us was a train for the mind, which goes only between where rails and stations have been laid down by armies of laborers.”

The Amiga had no “Desktop” but a “Workbench”,

Imagine a computer system… without a desktop, but instead a kitchen, a workshop, a garden, and a laboratory

Not a train bringing you from station to station but a slightly dirty and scratched all terrain bike which has allowed you and your mind to go anywhere and everywhere, even where no one has gone before

Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg, and Todd Matthews. 2025. #MalleableSoftware: Restoring User Agency in a World of Locked-Down Apps. Ink & Switch. #Essay https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/

"The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay—a malleable material that users could reshape at will. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable."

"Software should have never been an industry."

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