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you don't scare me! there are such comments about everything that has ever launched and the vast majority of them were right ;)

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hombre_fatal 6y ago
Well, that's one of the points. It's easy and trivial to come up with the downsides of something. There are already a bunch of people trying to do that in every thread. Might as well exercise the less-used part of the brain where you try to imagine the positive aspects of something.
- cblconfederate 6y ago
  I would care if i knew the buzz around these things is organic or genuine. Yet this thing popped simultaneously on my twitter , hn and elsewhere, clearly some marketing machine is pushing it. Overall though, technology that reduces the options of the user and gatekeeps is always net negative imho.
simcop2387 6y ago
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame" https://m.slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod https://m.slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases... My favorite example
- cblconfederate 6y ago
  i like how nobody is addressing my original points
2muchcoffeeman 6y ago
I agree. People just point to the exceptions and not the vast majority of products and businesses that failed. That drop box comment was a bit off since having an offsite backup of your most important data and having it available across all your devices is super useful. However I see where he was coming from. I still have on site backups. And most of the time that’s way cheaper for massive backups. $30-50 USD for browser inception? If I had my entire environment there I could see the usefulness. But the browser alone? I see some comments where people are already paying. Who is using this?
quadrature 6y ago
wasn't trying to !. Also you're absolutely right, mighty might fail as a consumer application. But rigging together a very complicated system of software will definitely fail as a product for these people.

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hombre_fatal 6y ago

Well, that's one of the points. It's easy and trivial to come up with the downsides of something. There are already a bunch of people trying to do that in every thread. Might as well exercise the less-used part of the brain where you try to imagine the positive aspects of something.

cblconfederate 6y ago
I would care if i knew the buzz around these things is organic or genuine. Yet this thing popped simultaneously on my twitter , hn and elsewhere, clearly some marketing machine is pushing it. Overall though, technology that reduces the options of the user and gatekeeps is always net negative imho.

simcop2387 6y ago

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame" https://m.slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod https://m.slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases... My favorite example

cblconfederate 6y ago
i like how nobody is addressing my original points

2muchcoffeeman 6y ago

I agree. People just point to the exceptions and not the vast majority of products and businesses that failed. That drop box comment was a bit off since having an offsite backup of your most important data and having it available across all your devices is super useful. However I see where he was coming from. I still have on site backups. And most of the time that’s way cheaper for massive backups. $30-50 USD for browser inception? If I had my entire environment there I could see the usefulness. But the browser alone? I see some comments where people are already paying. Who is using this?

quadrature 6y ago

wasn't trying to !. Also you're absolutely right, mighty might fail as a consumer application. But rigging together a very complicated system of software will definitely fail as a product for these people.