In the we still haven’t learnt from our past mistakes files…

Just saw this post Software takes you to infinity and beyond on stuff. I thought that the worldwide telescope looks awesome and proceeding to download it. I thought to myself I’ll get my mother in law to install it for her grandchildren in India. And then I got to the download page and here’s what I found.

6 steps with dependencies and warnings about turning off security. There’s no way I can get my mother in law to install it. Its too complicated and too painful!

If you’re going to release software aimed at families and children then it needs to be easy to install!

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