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I wasn't a consumer back then but I absolutely know the analogy and followed the logic.
by jvanderbot 2y ago
I wasn't a consumer back then but I absolutely know the analogy and followed the logic.
- ggm 2y agoYes it's a compelling analogy. I just find it striking this event is closer to the end of the Vietnam war 22 years before Job's return to Apple in 1997, than the 27 years from 97 to today. There are almost certainly HN readers who weren't alive in 97, and yet the Jobs story works much as "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it" vietnam era quotes work: they're part of the culture now. I doubt we have many 13 year old HN people but it won't be long before there's a cohort here who lived entirely in a post Jobs world.