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"The Next Big Thing" is never the next big thing. "The Next Big Thing" is always something obvious, like Smell-O-Vision, and people try it over and over, becau
by justin_vanw 11y ago
"The Next Big Thing" is never the next big thing.
"The Next Big Thing" is always something obvious, like Smell-O-Vision, and people try it over and over, because obviously it would be a big thing if you got it to work, and then nobody cares or they actively dislike it.
Then something absolutely 'stupid' comes along and everybody uses it every day. Nobody gives a shit about the ability to do video chats on your phone (which nearly everyone-and-also-even-old-people have today, and people have been dreaming about for nearly 100 years), but they constantly use the ability to send tiny emails from your phone to other phones only (SMS), or the ability to post those tiny emails on a web page other people can subscribe to the updates of (Twitter).
- heyrhett 11y agoReminds me of this joke image http://www.optimiced.com/wp-uploads/2009/02/the-twitter-future.jpg http://www.optimiced.com/wp-uploads/2009/02/the-twitter-futu...
- sethjgore 11y agoyou obviously didn't watch the video. i'm deaf and i cherish the ability to do video chats on my phone. all of my friends use video chat all time. you're just a lazy pos who comes online to post a stupid comment that has no worth in anything.
- dang 11y agoPersonal attacks are not allowed on HN and will get your account banned. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- justin_vanw 11y agoLazy POS here, I'm sorry you're deaf. I'm glad you benefit from video chat. I don't think you quite caught the point I was making? Maybe you didn't know this, but I'm not in charge of the internet. I am not going to take video chat away from you, and you and your friends can keep using it as much as you want! Good luck!