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It's important to also realize they aren't doing this because they're motivated to disrupt the military/industrial complex, they're doing it because Elon is a master of public relations and has promoted SpaceX heavily.
Tablets are great devices for consuming media, but they suck for typing and suck for creating. Laptops are a lot better for creating but I still haven't found anything that can match a good, solid desktop with multiple monitors and a clicky keyboard.
There's a substantial cohort of the population[1] that thinks If something is illegal it must be wrong. They wouldn't make it illegal unless it was. Getting through to these people, in my experience, is almost impossible.
[1] Probably not on HN. But we're not representative of the country at large.
This sounds similar to the cry of every company that is about to be painfully disrupted.
Now, if you wipe out poverty entirely and bring everyone up to the same standard of living and education you'll probably see a shrinking global population. But that isn't happening yet and won't happen for a long time.
Of course I don't mean to downplay the risks, more research is vital.
LinkedIn probably has the advantage here because it was started explicitly as a resume/business/hustling platform, whereas facebook started as a way for students to keep in touch with friends.
The corollary of this is that if you can't compete in your current vertical you choose a more restricted vertical and try to be one of the fat cats within that.
[1] "Rebecca Black's Friday" Inspired Sale - unlike her music, our services don't suck
It's probably going to do the job quite well just because it will pique the curiosity of a few and they might end up going.
Sure, facebook is creepy and annoying and provides little value to me but until average people start deleting their accounts it doesn't matter at all.
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I hope the writing in their articles is more straightforward.
If I have to choose between Steam and GOG, and it is available on the both[1] I go with the latter and have not been disappointed.
[1] Generally yes in my case because I'm a crotchety old man who plays video games from before the dawn of time.