Comment 112 for bug 668415

@Tal Liron
I currently imagine myself going to buy a new car and ask if they have got the model in black colour instead of white colour and if they have got different seats and perhaps even a more sophisticated navigation system.

I wonder what exactly I would say if they told me that they only have got white colour, one type of seats and one type of navigation system. I wonder how exactly I would react if they told me that they won't sell me any car without navigation system and that I can only buy this model. It would be really nice, even hilarious, if they even told me that I can go to a car mechanic to remove the navigation system but that they definitively will not sell me the car without the system.

If you now find this situation awkward, I really hope it makes you ponder the whole situation a little bit more thoroughly.

Most people here want more customization. When people go to buy a car nobody expects them to be car mechanics themselves or to visit a car mechanic after they bought a car just that they are able to make some personal customizations to their car. Everybody expects that the product offers some flexibility so that it can be fitted to the needs of the customer.

Now, can anybody tell me what exactly is different in the wold of computer technology? Why is the answer always to go and install some add-ons if the demand was for some simple flexibility and customization? The "go and fix it yourself" mentality does not belong in the 21st century, it did not even belong in the second half of the 20th century. The time that all cars have to be black and have the same set of features is over. So it is with computers. Even my old Grandpa would second this opinion, he prefers his Microsoft Windows bar to autohide and that though the default setting of Windows Vista is that the bad is always visible....