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For now, because it still sounds cool and futuristic, but if the whole audience of HN is already rejecting smart devices wholesale, that's a bellwether the indu
by dasil003 7y ago
For now, because it still sounds cool and futuristic, but if the whole audience of HN is already rejecting smart devices wholesale, that's a bellwether the industry might want to consider before the attitude percolates out to public at large.
- bigtunacan 7y agoThe public at large does not care what we think.
- dasil003 7y agoOf course not, but they care when the stuff they buy bricks within a few years.
- TuringNYC 7y agoSadly, unless we as engineers, or ideally some broader body promotes some standard of device independence -- customers will eventually reject all such devices regardless of where they reside on the spectrum of cripple-able <---> independent.
- OnlineCourage 7y agoOr...there are engineers who realize this regardless of hacker news and push better design factors by communicating customer needs and impact on branding. Hacker news is not as influential as we may believe.