Layman

Recently, somebody asked me, what a layman or beginner can do on computers? I thought a little bit and then said, you can listen to music, play games, chatting with friends, e-mails, search and read about topics you like. I also told that person you may also like to do blog post (online diary) and you would definetly like to use google earth. I think these are things, most people like to do using computers.

I think there are very limited no. of interesting applications for beginners or may be I don't about others. A middle-aged person may not like to use computers for music (can use his music player), games (mostly meant for yonugsters), chatting/e-mailing (might have no online friends).

So I think, if somebody start thinking in this direction, may come up with some cool interesting stuff for beginners and can get huge success...

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Anonymous said…
Thats an interesting thought. A related issue is that there are very few applications targeted at Indian users. Hence answering the question of what an Indian beginner can do with a computer is even harder!
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