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There seem to be a lot of supporting arguments (look at all these dead projects he deems to have been fast, elegant, and efficient, also, hey, my current toys a
by catherd 6y ago
There seem to be a lot of supporting arguments (look at all these dead projects he deems to have been fast, elegant, and efficient, also, hey, my current toys are not made for me to play with like I used to be able to, and the battery life sucks). But what is the actual thesis?
It seems like he wants hacker toys and is unhappy that everything is built for consumers now. I can't get anything deeper out of it.
The EU vs. US/Asia thing just seems like a weird proxy for saying real techies don't like extruded technology product but it's what the market asked for and now we have lots of it.
- jiofih 6y agoWhat makes you think the products he mentions were “hacker toys”? They were consumer products just the same.
- catherd 6y agoSome of them were consumer products. But they lost out (probably) because they were more like something a technical person would want and less like something made for a consumer. Would you frame the reasons they failed differently? If TikTok users and gamers needed long battery life and elegant scripting tools we would have them. But they don't.
- pjc50 6y agoPsion in particular had a huge business following. Mind you, so did Blackberry.