Re:Amazon Prime Air
by icebraining on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:43AM
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He was neither a reviewer (the product was not even available) nor a journalist. And his opinion was well founded. The iPad didn't have wireless, it did have less space than a Nomad, and "lame" is pure personal opinion.
That post is always trotted out (particularly on HN) as an example of how normal "nerds" are so disconnected from the general public, but what it ignores is that not everyone cares about what the general public will buy. Not everyone is a startup founder looking to sell gadgets to Average Joe. Some of us are just looking from the perspective of our own lives, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
Guess what: for CmdrTaco, and probably for many on Slashdot, the iPod was a crappy player. Deal with it.
Re:Amazon Prime Air
by code_duck on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @10:11PM
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You've missed the entire point of that example, which is that the iPod turned out to be a 500 billion dollar smash hit that turned apple from a doomed company to one of the top 3 tech companies of the 00s and 10s.
That post is always trotted out (particularly on HN) as an example of how normal "nerds" are so disconnected from the general public, but what it ignores is that not everyone cares about what the general public will buy. Not everyone is a startup founder looking to sell gadgets to Average Joe. Some of us are just looking from the perspective of our own lives, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that.
Guess what: for CmdrTaco, and probably for many on Slashdot, the iPod was a crappy player. Deal with it.