Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”

Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by kfprt on Sunday August 08, 2021 @11:03AM (#28107232)

I wouldn't oversell HN either. Arguably the value of HN lies in how relatively few users it has compared to FB or Reddit. Bringing to market a competitor to android/iOS that everyone including your parents could and would use would cost literally tens of billions. HN doesn't have that much clout, nowhere close.

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Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by zozbot234 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @11:13AM (#28107307)

> would cost literally tens of billions

You keep saying this as if it was somehow true or relevant. At this stage, we have no real need for an OS that grandma will want to use. That can come later. She can stay on iOS/Android for the time being.

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Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by eitland on Sunday August 08, 2021 @12:48PM (#28108070)

> that everyone including your parents could and would use would cost literally tens of billions.

We need a name for this, the classic "someones parents can't use it and therefore it can't work fallacy".

My parents don't use Mac.

In fact most people don't, including me.

Doesn't prevent Mac from being a huge success and a viable platform for developers.

Same with a good number of applications: A few hundred or thousand hard core users. Bonus if one of them is an oil giant, a defense giant, the armed forces of a wealthy country or something.

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