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I feel your pedantry is misplaced on this occasion. While you do technically have a point, the blog article was about was about his frustrations with platform i
by pushpop 8y ago
I feel your pedantry is misplaced on this occasion. While you do technically have a point, the blog article was about was about his frustrations with platform incompatibility. In many ways his arguments is more valid now than its ever been because the incompatibilities are entirely self-serving with each platform being conceptually the same as the last. Where as in the Betamax days it was at least down to differing hardware standards- each offering their own distinct advantages over the other.
- spectramax 8y agoI agree with some of the things about today's digital distribution and the DRM enchilada, my gripe with articles like this is about the title. I believe if the author talked about DRM, we'd have a better discussion than falling back to VHS vs Betamax in a clickbait article.
- Jgrubb 8y agoI kid you not, I wrote and posted this whole thing in less than 5 minutes this morning after having bought the TV yesterday. The word "clickbait" is giving me too much credit, yet here we are.
- pushpop 8y agoNaming things is hard - that goes for blog posts as well as a software projects. If all you’ve got to contribute is an ad hominem attack on an article you ostensibly agree with anyway then you really need to ask yourself who is more in the wrong here.