> It is easy to imagine a world where those tools developed along with the computers, until programming itself became so easy that the average user would feel comfortable doing it.

I would argue it IS SO EASY. The thing is that programming itself is not a problem. The problem is he complex world the programming happens in. Programming itself even helps to reduce that complexity though by allowing you to traverse some amount of that complexity automatically.

The problem is not, that programming is too hard for people, but that people are not willing to take responsibility for themselves and hteir problems. Most people look to others for solutions to their problems. That's also why people who promise them solutions, like Jesus or Jobs, are praised as saviours, even though they are never able to fulfill all the promises, at least in the amount and dimensions that the receiver would hope for.

> It is interesting that at one point, Jobs (who could not be reached for comment) described his vision of computers

A kind of statement we haven't seen for a long time. RIP, Steve.

PS: The article didn't really explain why he thinks there was a Xerox Parc philosophy inside of Apple and how/why it was in decline, right? It basically just says, there was Xerox Parc with that awesome philosophy and there was Apple who copied some of it, but altogether was a closed system developer.