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It's weird right? I mean if you were the Neverware people you're just updating your customers about this change. In steps a third party like HN and publishes th
by coding123 6y ago
It's weird right? I mean if you were the Neverware people you're just updating your customers about this change. In steps a third party like HN and publishes that announcement, and suddenly it's this out of context, wtf is this moment for tens of thousands of people.
- barkingcat 6y agoThat's more the fault of hacker news and the submitters of the url (it's a page inside of a knowledgebase ...) and also the upvoters of the article. Imagine, all those upvotes needed to make this a front page article, NONE of those upvoters know what the company is or the context behind it, just that Google did something, so they upvote. Then you see all these discussion posts about not knowing what it was, and why it's on the front page, etc. It's basically HN's version of the blind leading the deaf.
- gowld 6y ago24 pts. Surely 24 people know what Neverware is.
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- thekyle 6y ago> NONE of those upvoters know what the company is or the context behind it I'm one of the people who upvoted this story and am fully aware of Neverware's products. I've actually used their distribution on some old laptops.
- jccalhoun 6y agoI submitted it. I found the story on android central https://www.androidcentral.com/google-just-bought-neverware-makers-free-cloudready-upgrade https://www.androidcentral.com/google-just-bought-neverware-... but it was basically just a regurgitation of the press release so I submitted the press release instead because I assumed it would be better to submit the original source but I can see that android central's article does give some context. I've used cloudready a little bit when I was teaching an introductory class to high school students who I knew all had chromebooks and I wanted to make sure things I was assigning would work on them.