I mean, it would be a lot more reasonable if the entire tech industry hadn’t gone absolutely 100% all-in on investing billions and billions of dollars into the technology before realizing that they didn’t have any use cases to justify that investment.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh you don’t have to convince me it was a mistake, his comment just wasn’t what it’s being made out to be. “Find a use for it or we’re fucked” is a lot different than “please use our product or we’re fucked”
TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Idk I don’t really see much of a distinction really
glimse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I dunno, there’s a pretty big distinction. “Please use our shitty thing” vs “Please make our shitty thing better so people want to use it”
It’s placing “blame” on the industry leaders for failing to make something useful
msage@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
But HE is the industry leader.
It’s not like it wasn’t him that sunk every successful product they still had in the last couple of years.