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While I think the HN audience is definitely on the 'SQL for the internet' side of that gradient I don't think very many people (on the scale of the whole intern
by idiotsecant 4y ago
While I think the HN audience is definitely on the 'SQL for the internet' side of that gradient I don't think very many people (on the scale of the whole internet) are at all interested in that. I think if you were to graph the level of 'nuts and bolts' level interest among internet users it would follow an exponential decay and I don't see that turning around any time in the future.
The internet is not for tinkerers any more, it's for regular humans with regular human interests. We had our brief, glorious time when the internet was for people who liked to know how things work. That time is over and I don't think there's much money to be made targeting that market in general search. The average person not only doesn't mind if they see listicles in their results, they often look at them!
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThat doesn't preclude a specialized search engine for 'tinkerers'.
- sagarm 4y agoThe doesn't seem like Apple's usual market.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoMaybe not, though beats by Dre also didn't seem like Apple's usual market. So they may yet have more surprises.
- idiotsecant 4y agoNo? I think that's exactly Apple's usual market - sell some hardware with (maybe) some small difference, attach some marketing mystique to it, and sell it for a premium.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI can’t think of any new apple product launch in the last 15 years, since the iPhone, that had only a small difference in hardware compared to incumbent offerings. With the exception of Beats and some accessories. Even some of their dongles were groundbreaking, like the lightning to hdmi video adaptor with a full ARM computer inside to compress and decompress the video stream in real time.