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So outside of organizing your recipe collection, this Apple ][ is just a $2000 toy, right? -- some pundit in 1977, probably

• devalgo 6y ago
  Not sure this take feels right but it doesn't really feel sufficient to say "this time is different" either. It's pretty easy to come up with dozens of military based use cases but really difficult to find commercial ones. Possible use cases for say delivery still rely on human drivers (in delivery vans) or tele-operators for example so it's not clear there's a business case for using them.
  • tlb 6y ago
    Sure. There's really no way to tell whether this time is different or not, other than watching what people figure out to do with it.
• 0xffff2 6y ago
  This seems like the mother of all selection biases to me. Of course you remember the Apple ][ because it was one of the first products in what became a wildly successful market. How many flying car prototypes do you remember? There have been several, and a whole new batch of electric versions are being designed right now, but so far people have been quite rightly skeptical of that product for the last 70+ years.