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and with the iPad: "big deal, it's just a large iPhone". The fact that most of HN seems to hate or deride these features (like the Live Photos thing) tells me

and with the iPad: "big deal, it's just a large iPhone". The fact that most of HN seems to hate or deride these features (like the Live Photos thing) tells me that they'll likely be a huge success and all be using them in a year.

nemo44x 11y ago
Which is odd because you would think a community like this the actors would be forward thinking and try and see what the possibilities are. The lack of creativity isn't unique to this place or generation - Slashdot had similar sentiments years ago when they still mattered.
- abritinthebay 11y ago
  Not really odd. It's pretty normal at this point.
- rimantas 11y ago
  Alas, community like this has very little empathy for non-tech, non-dev folks. I am amused how narrow worldview can be sometimes on HN. Every kid should learn to code, because nothing else is interesting on Earth, everyone is supposed to tinker with their devices, because what's else there to do, etc. And when I state that "Inmates are running the asylum" is one of the book that changed my worldview it does not usually end well for me.
derefr 11y ago
> most of HN seems to hate or deride these features (like the Live Photos thing) tells me that they'll likely be a huge success and all be using them in a year If the fact that gifv videos are already everywhere (Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, Vine-sorta-kinda) didn't tip you off. It seems like people are starting to think of short, usually-silent, looped videos as just what you take to preserve a moment, instead of a photo.
- abritinthebay 11y ago
  Indeed, yet a see a lot of hate for Live Photos here and on other places like Reddit. It's funny. Tech-savvy crowds are often the worst arbiters of taste, certainly the worst predictors of it.
  - nemo44x 11y ago
    I think because they often focus on function and do not consider form as an important factor - which has proven to be wrong time and again. Form and function are one.

nemo44x 11y ago

Which is odd because you would think a community like this the actors would be forward thinking and try and see what the possibilities are. The lack of creativity isn't unique to this place or generation - Slashdot had similar sentiments years ago when they still mattered.

abritinthebay 11y ago
Not really odd. It's pretty normal at this point.
rimantas 11y ago
Alas, community like this has very little empathy for non-tech, non-dev folks. I am amused how narrow worldview can be sometimes on HN. Every kid should learn to code, because nothing else is interesting on Earth, everyone is supposed to tinker with their devices, because what's else there to do, etc. And when I state that "Inmates are running the asylum" is one of the book that changed my worldview it does not usually end well for me.

derefr 11y ago

> most of HN seems to hate or deride these features (like the Live Photos thing) tells me that they'll likely be a huge success and all be using them in a year If the fact that gifv videos are already everywhere (Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, Vine-sorta-kinda) didn't tip you off. It seems like people are starting to think of short, usually-silent, looped videos as just what you take to preserve a moment, instead of a photo.

abritinthebay 11y ago
Indeed, yet a see a lot of hate for Live Photos here and on other places like Reddit. It's funny. Tech-savvy crowds are often the worst arbiters of taste, certainly the worst predictors of it.
- nemo44x 11y ago
  I think because they often focus on function and do not consider form as an important factor - which has proven to be wrong time and again. Form and function are one.