BeOS was like those Transmeta Crusoe CPUs, Segways and other products that gave journalists something to write about even if adoption was not going to happen.
The circus aspect of the media wanting to write something (as they have pages to fill and eyeballs to feed) must be quite costly to small companies wanting to get a legit product out there. I can still remember the name of Jean-Louis Gassée from his frequent soundbites in the tech press about the wonders of what BeOS was going to be. Did he actually do anything in between conferences, interviews and scheduling media appointments? If so, how did he get the time?
The 'look what we could have won' tech retrospectives are also part of this media cycle, a version of garbage-in-garbage-out applies where those companies that got hyped get recycled as article-worthy a decade on...
I find it sad this is being downvoted. I think this rings true.
Perhaps too true?
HN has its bents and focuses, but it's at least more conversationally balanced than reddit (perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965536 partially explains some of the reasons why). The news media is of course pure bias and content/distribution/agenda masquerading as fact-based objectivity (eg, https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI).
Where else can I look for... the kind of apolitical, discussion-focused information sharing that eg used to happen on blogs circa 2007, but in discussion community form, and within a community framework that is bias-resistant?
BeOS was like those Transmeta Crusoe CPUs, Segways and other products that gave journalists something to write about even if adoption was not going to happen.
The circus aspect of the media wanting to write something (as they have pages to fill and eyeballs to feed) must be quite costly to small companies wanting to get a legit product out there. I can still remember the name of Jean-Louis Gassée from his frequent soundbites in the tech press about the wonders of what BeOS was going to be. Did he actually do anything in between conferences, interviews and scheduling media appointments? If so, how did he get the time?
The 'look what we could have won' tech retrospectives are also part of this media cycle, a version of garbage-in-garbage-out applies where those companies that got hyped get recycled as article-worthy a decade on...