• Optional@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Indeed, although every one of us who have seen a tech hype train once or twice expected nothing less.

    PDAs? Quantum computing. Touch screens. Siri. Cortana. Micropayments. Apps. Synergy of desktop and mobile.

    From the outset this went from “hey that’s kind of neat” to quite possibly toppling some giants of tech in a flash. Now all we have to do is wait for the boards to give huge payouts to the pinheads that drove this shitwagon in here and we can get back to doing cool things without some imaginary fantasy stapled on to it at the explicit instruction of marketing and channel sales.

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      22 minutes ago

      Xml also used to be a tech hype for a bit.

      And i still remember how media outlets hyped up second life, forgot about it and a few months later discovered it again and more hype started. It was fun.

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          1 hour ago

          The trackpad and trackpoint of my aging linux laptop stop working if the thing gets its lid shut. The touchscreen continues to work just fine, however. It turns out that while two stupid things can’t make a good thing, they can sometimes cancel each other out.