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The more these tech bloggers cover trivial apps such as Instagram, the more people will make these type of apps rather than work on hard problems like healthcar

The more these tech bloggers cover trivial apps such as Instagram, the more people will make these type of apps rather than work on hard problems like healthcare or education.

orblivion 15y ago
It's self-correcting. Facebook can only buy so many Instagrams.
bradmccarty 15y ago
Please don't do that. I'm a tech blogger, and it drives me insane that things like healthcare or education apps don't get the attention from readers that they deserve. Do things that matter. Please. I will continue to write about them, even if nobody reads it.
spindritf 15y ago
But this way smart people can score some money fast and go on to build something with a larger and more lasting impact (vide today's stories about Elon Musk and his space exploration project). While we get a cool product for immediate consumption every once in a while.
jasonlotito 15y ago
People are working on healthcare, education, and other problems like that. It's just they aren't all paying much attention to the audience you're paying attention to. These types of startups also aren't focused on being bought, but actually solving real problems. And this takes time, and energy. Don't assume that just because you don't read about us on TechCrunch we aren't out there trying to solve real problems.
InclinedPlane 15y ago
Education expenditures in the US in 2010: $901 billion Health care expenditures in the US in 2010: $2.6 trillion
- R_Semtex_III 15y ago
  Not included in this breakdown is the amount pocketed by the Medical Industrial complex (read:FDA/AMA et al) for its 'protection' in such ventures. All a cost of doing business in the sordid World of Health and Medicine in the US, I'm afraid. I wonder how much lobbying, bribes and nefarious acts it took before Eli Lilly could just bounce people off the FDA review panel like an overzealous virgin at a strip club for compromising the release of a (alleged-at-the-time, and confirmed after approval/use) dangerous drug? http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/02/26/health-us-congress-prasugrel-idUKTRE51P7TV20090226 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/02/26/health-us-congress-...
laconian 15y ago
It's the same problem with politics. The coverage is so much about the meta aspects of politics, the daily "he said, she said", not the actual policies that are being proposed. It's easier to employ people to write about the superficial horse races aspects, and because the subject matter is trivial, the audience is larger. It's profiting on the dilution of the media and everybody loses.

The more these tech bloggers cover trivial apps such as Instagram, the more people will make these type of apps rather than work on hard problems like healthcare or education.

orblivion 15y ago

It's self-correcting. Facebook can only buy so many Instagrams.

bradmccarty 15y ago

Please don't do that. I'm a tech blogger, and it drives me insane that things like healthcare or education apps don't get the attention from readers that they deserve. Do things that matter. Please. I will continue to write about them, even if nobody reads it.

spindritf 15y ago

But this way smart people can score some money fast and go on to build something with a larger and more lasting impact (vide today's stories about Elon Musk and his space exploration project). While we get a cool product for immediate consumption every once in a while.

jasonlotito 15y ago

People are working on healthcare, education, and other problems like that. It's just they aren't all paying much attention to the audience you're paying attention to. These types of startups also aren't focused on being bought, but actually solving real problems. And this takes time, and energy. Don't assume that just because you don't read about us on TechCrunch we aren't out there trying to solve real problems.

InclinedPlane 15y ago

Education expenditures in the US in 2010: $901 billion Health care expenditures in the US in 2010: $2.6 trillion

R_Semtex_III 15y ago
Not included in this breakdown is the amount pocketed by the Medical Industrial complex (read:FDA/AMA et al) for its 'protection' in such ventures. All a cost of doing business in the sordid World of Health and Medicine in the US, I'm afraid. I wonder how much lobbying, bribes and nefarious acts it took before Eli Lilly could just bounce people off the FDA review panel like an overzealous virgin at a strip club for compromising the release of a (alleged-at-the-time, and confirmed after approval/use) dangerous drug? http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/02/26/health-us-congress-prasugrel-idUKTRE51P7TV20090226 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/02/26/health-us-congress-...

laconian 15y ago

It's the same problem with politics. The coverage is so much about the meta aspects of politics, the daily "he said, she said", not the actual policies that are being proposed. It's easier to employ people to write about the superficial horse races aspects, and because the subject matter is trivial, the audience is larger. It's profiting on the dilution of the media and everybody loses.