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zack14981 t1_ivsag5n wrote

Reply to comment by ShinjukuAce in [OC] Tech Layoffs in 2022 so far, percentage of total workforce by PieChartPirate

Did you also call the first iPhone stupid?

Seems like the only stupid one here is you.

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Twirdman t1_ivscgm1 wrote

One the first iPhone was not a dramatic departure from existing technology it was a significant improvement over existing technology so your analogy is stupid.

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Second some of those are just plain stupid. They serve no function. What need does crypto fill? We already had secure, instant, online fund transfers and have for years before crypto. Crypto added nothing to this. All crypto does is waste an inordinate amount of energy to produce random digital strings of nothingness.

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Trixteri t1_ivtkqce wrote

the only chain that wastes energy is Bitcoin. the digital strings of nothingness are proof that everything really does exist there.

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zack14981 t1_ivscre0 wrote

The metaverse is to vr what the iPhone was to phones. I’m not saying I like the metaverse, but if you’re going to talk about improving existing technology, they’re very similar.

You can call crypto useless, but the fact is that there are billions of dollars circulating around in the crypto space. Calling a business that operates in that space and makes money doing so “not a real company” is just fucking asinine.

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timmeh-eh t1_ivsf3av wrote

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…. Challenge there is people wanted phones. A shitty vr version of second life is the answer to a question nobody’s asking.

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Hole-In-Six t1_ivstktj wrote

Are you calling beanie babys stupid! Because the fact is there's millions of dollars floating around the beanie baby space. - Some guy in 1999

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timmeh-eh t1_ivwir4z wrote

Well while I do think that beanie babies were stupid people did actually want them. The challenge Meta is facing here is nobody wants to buy expensive VR hardware so they can have a virtual existence.

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aaahhhhhhfine t1_ivtfgen wrote

The iPhone isn't "stupid" in an abstract sense. But it is baffling that so many people are willing to pay so much money for them. They aren't that amazing. Hell, I'd take a midrange Android device over an iPhone any day of the week. The confusing thing is that so many people are willing to spend about twice what they should for iPhones that apple is somehow able to fucking thrive as basically just a hardware company. It's kind of amazing... Their software is mostly just ok (though they've got a few decent things)... They're really just a hardware company that somehow made that work.

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Etch_a__sketch t1_ivtgzzf wrote

There is no reasonable argument that Apple is just a hardware company lol. They actively develop several operating systems. To call Apple a hardware company is a complete misunderstanding of how Apple operate.

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aaahhhhhhfine t1_ivtiwxj wrote

Of course there is... They make all their money from hardware. Also Tim Cook was specifically picked for the job because he was their hardware supply chain guy and that's the company they are.

You are completely misunderstanding Apple.

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