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> Imagine if cars came in a kit and I could assemble it and choose the fittings myself ... man, that'd be great. I mean, for a niche certain audience, yes it i
by SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> Imagine if cars came in a kit and I could assemble it and choose the fittings myself ... man, that'd be great.
I mean, for a niche certain audience, yes it is great.
But for mass market, people don't necessarily want to take on a whole new hobby in order to experience the thing.
Worse, it's contextual within the same individual: the person who wants to customise the car doesn't want to make their own sourdough pizza from type-00 flour, and customised web browser. And vice versa: each thinks "why waste time on that other thing"?
- axiomsEnd 5y agoInstant messaging in 200x was based on "naked content" that could be parsed by anyone, so there was a lot of different programs supporting various forms of communications. If you weren't a programmer you simply relied on 3rd-party software and that worked quite nicely.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoExactly. likewise most people go to a dealer and get a "third party car" that works quite nicely on the shared infrastructure of roads, signs, gas stations etc. Maybe with a few configurable options such as color.
- lnenad 5y agoAnd then there was non enthusiast software and it won, so I guess that's what the people want.