The worst kind of tech hype is when something is portrayed as inevitable and unstoppable, with criticism or doubt blithely dismissed as "they don't get it".
Just because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.
#Hype #Tech #TechBros #Journalism #TechNews
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Some journalists have real difficulty believing that multiple giant companies can make the same huge mistake all at once, despite lots of examples from the past few years.
Adrian Cochrane
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in reply to Kaye • • •I did try to find a "juicero is here to stay" headline! ๐
Unfortunately looks like it disappeared too quickly to generate such articles, but on the other hand it did burn through $120 million of funding from Google. ๐
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Exactly ๐ฏ
Tales are told by Wendy Taleo
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in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •but sometimes you look back in time and most of the stuff you use today were deemed hype when they launched.
Even as a kid in the eighties I rolled my eyes when grownups called video games a hype ๐
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in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •The 3D TV one hurts a little, it was cool! (but expensive to make content for...)
With the "metaverse" I'm sure it'll stick around, it just won't be Meta's. If you have no furries on your platform something has gone wrong...
DocRekd
in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •Similarly I think that, after the hype passed and all of those #ai bs blow up, it will still remain some reasonable applications, at the very least better digital assistants and better speech to text, that we won't call ai anymore
cameronbosch :endeavourOS:
in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •"NFTs are here to stay"
Let me laugh even harder next to my Bitcoin, oh wait! ๐
JamesK
in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •@sepdroid โJust because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.โ
10/10, no notes
thepoliticalcat
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Indeed! ๐
Yet tech journalists assured us they were here to stay, "like it or not" ๐ค
ResearchBuzz
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in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •When I would talk about the Metaverse being a pile of shit I would literally see comments telling me "but Meta are pouring Billions into it". Same with NFTs, Crypto....
People either don't learn or we have an unending supply of idiots.
FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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Yeah, that's the most concerning thing. The "google plus is here to stay" article claims that it must succeed because Google is pouring so many resources into it.
Maybe some people are so convinced by the wisdom of markets, they cannot comprehend the existence of bubbles?
Samuel Leuenberger
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It's weird how VR and 3D keep being hyped as if they'd never been tried before.
The first 3D films were in the 1910s, then another hype wave started in the 1950s (some of Hitchcock's films were in 3D), then the 1980s, then the 2000s. Every time it failed for similar reasons (the 3D didn't really look 3D, people needed to wear special glasses, some people couldn't see it etc).
Chris ๐คฉ Reinbothe
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Windows Phone, Kinect, the Apple Car etc! ๐
Chris ๐คฉ Reinbothe
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in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •p.p.s. Special mention to Apple for spending over $10 billion on the Apple Car and ending up with zero to show for it:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/28/apple-car-10-billion-spent/
They avoided "here to stay" headlines by simply never releasing the product they'd sunk $10,000,000,000.00 into making.
All big companies make really bad bets, even the largest prestige projects can end up being a total waste of time and money which are abandoned and forgotten. There is never an inevitable success from anyone.
Apple Spent More Than $10 Billion on Apple Car Before Canceling Project
Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
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Yes, definitely. Also, it implies a deep insecurity if they feel the need to say something is "here to stay".
Lu
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FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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I think Google originally took the "Circles" idea from Diaspora, which is still around but unfortunately not being developed much nowadays... ๐
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in reply to FediThing ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ • • •>that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.
hehehe... *golden shower*.
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