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> If you can't grok an analogy, that's on you. Please review and respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycomb
by lapcat 2y ago
> If you can't grok an analogy, that's on you.
Please review and respect the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> 1975: Don't bother writing MicroSoft BASIC. The customer base is miniscule.
You're cherry-picking a single success, with the benefit of hindsight. How about listing all of the nascent technologies from 1975? It's likely that many of them flopped, and investing in them was a waste.
> if your company, or its leadership, lack vision for the future and only invest in the present
I am my company, a sole proprietor with very limited resources. I do invest in the future to some extent, but I can't invest in every possible future. The Vision Pro future does not look particularly promising.
Besides, you don't need to be first to be successful. I certainly wasn't the first to any platform, not even close. The thing about hockey is, there's only one puck on the ice. And it's a zero-sum game, one winner and one loser. But that's not even remotely true of tech.
- reaperducer 2y ago[flagged]
- lapcat 2y ago> I recommend you do the same. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I quoted where you violated the guidelines: "If you can't grok an analogy, that's on you." That's a personal insult. Could you please quote where you think I violated the guidelines?
- 1123581321 2y agoHe gave you a great fuller explanation, and understood what you were saying the first time. You are being rude.