alt Hacker NewsBut it still was lame and ultimately made the world a worse place; and mounting remote storage is convenient and often preferable to something like Dropbox for several reasons. The fact that these aren't what matters for gaining wide popularity doesn't make such statements false.
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brailsafe • yesterday at 10:07 PM
> ultimately made the world a worse place
I feel like people dramatically overestimate their impact on "the world" by way of making niche software choices or consumer products or whatever.
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sonofhans • yesterday at 10:04 PM
The iPod made the world a worse place? I’m skeptical; I see very little bad about iPods. Do you think the quote what about the iPhone?
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In all fairness, he did later have this comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27070138