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People who made money with their phone had fully adopted Blackberry devices long before the iPhone came around. It may not have been as fun or slick, but when $
by randomdata 4y ago
People who made money with their phone had fully adopted Blackberry devices long before the iPhone came around. It may not have been as fun or slick, but when $80/hr. was on the line you weren't exactly going to wait around until something better showed up like the average consumer could.
The parent is right. The success of ChatGPT in business is that it brought awareness of the capabilities of GPT that OpenAI struggled to communicate beforehand. It was a breakthrough in marketing, less so a breakthrough in tech.
- pixl97 4y agoEngineers rarely become billionaires, salespeople do. You could have the best most magic product on earth and sell one of them versus the person that puts it in a pretty box and lets grandma use it easily. This is something that many people on HN seemingly have to relearn in every big innovation that comes out.