Re:Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)
by paulcole on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:58PM
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I tend to disagree more with your view of history than the view of history taken from the comment you’re replying to.
> I had my first 'smartphone' in 2003
For all intents and purposes, the first ‘smartphone’ didn’t exist until the iPhone existed. How do I know? Because essentially every smartphone on the market today looks like an iPhone.
> In 2020 I had a device that was utterly useless for work and had become little more than an entertainment device
This is what millions (billions?) of people want even if it’s not what you want.
I had my first 'smartphone' in 2003. By 2009 I had a device in my pocket that could almost replace my PC at both work and home and didn't spy on everything I did. In 2020 I had a device that was utterly useless for work and had become little more than an entertainment device that constantly sends data back to the mothership.
While unlikely it is certainly possible that hardware will advance to meet the need but the problem lies in how we do consumer software now. Because the hardware isn't the real product anymore predicting how it will develop gets much sketchier.
Either way, imagining that one change means another is possible or likely is silly.