php was still fundamentally a programming language you had to learn. This is “I wanted to make a program for my wife to do something she doesn’t have time to do manually” but made quickly with a machine. It’s probably going to do for programming what the Jacquard Loom did for cloth. Make it cheap enough that everyone can have lots of different shirts of their own style.

But the wife didn't do it herself. He still had to do it for her, the author says. I don't think (yet) we're at the point where every person who has an idea for a really good app can make it happen. They'll still need a wozniak, it's just that wozniaks will be a dime a dozen. The php analogy works.

What the Jacquard machine did for cloth was turn it into programming.