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Comment author: Jiro 25 August 2015 06:54:59PM 2 points [-]

and the fact that youth is basically never an indicator of "savvy"

In the area of computers, particularly things related to computers that appeared relatively recently and which youths are more inclined to use, it often is such an indicator.

Comment author: Lumifer 25 August 2015 07:42:30PM 0 points [-]

That might have been true 20 years ago, but not any more.

Comment author: Jiro 26 August 2015 02:00:25PM 1 point [-]

I'm pretty sure that new computer-related things continued to be produced in the past 20 years and that older people are less likely to use them.

Comment author: Dahlen 25 August 2015 06:57:11PM *  0 points [-]

Hence the qualifier "basically". I'm aware of a few exceptions related to products marketed to the 18-25 (or even 18-35) age range.

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