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The first cars ever couldn't drive in 100F+ heat, and wouldn't start below 0F. And even worse, there were virtually zero gas stations! Especially in rural areas
by grecy 8y ago
The first cars ever couldn't drive in 100F+ heat, and wouldn't start below 0F. And even worse, there were virtually zero gas stations! Especially in rural areas!
Does that mean they were useless? Absolutely not!
Lately the mindset seems to be unless a product is all things to all people at all times then it's useless.
In reality a product just has to fit a category really well and it will sell like hotcakes. Then it will evolve in iterations.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoSure. This is just pushback to the recent hype "it has full autonomy capabilities [small print: except not at all]". If the first cars had been marketed as "better in every aspect and in any conditions", you would have seen similar reactions.
- imtringued 8y agoThis reminds me of intel's optane. Yes they overhyped it and it doesn't perform 1000x faster than SSDs. But you have to consider that SSDs required decades of improvements to become viable and cheap. Even when Optane was a first generation product it was already better than SSDs in terms of latency and IOPS but despite that people thought it was a massive failure.