Friday, November 18, 2022

It is with a grain of satisfaction...

It is with a grain of satisfaction that I watch this latest generation of bleeding-edge technology loses its luster.

It happened with Steel, Railroads, Automobiles, generation-by-generation. "This time it will be different..."

Perhaps it will be different. Software is relatively easy to reverse-engineer for an existing user-base who expect a defined look-and-feel. The big investment is creating the user-base. Software is almost free to clone once written, unlike cloning blast furnaces, railway grades and automobile assembly plants.

That suggests that the profitability of running virtual universes could collapse with lightning speed.

My hat is off to Musk for pushing to get clean metrics of real, human eyeballs and adjusting the payroll to match.


8 comments:

  1. Once Elon has boiled off all the bots, DEI fluff, and less than competent staff he will probably be left with 10% of the old staff and 40% of the users. That will be his grounds to sue the old board and CEOs into the ground for stock fraud.

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  5. Much of the 'programming' is nothing more than vaporware, and the 'cloud' is actually just somebody else's computer... sigh

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  6. the cloud is somebody else's computer they can and will KICK YOU OFF OF if you do something they don't like. Look at the banks refusing to work with FFLs or SalesForce (a cloud app) not doing business anyone who offends the left.

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