the first 10+ years of PCs and clones on the market, many were sitting idle on workers’ desks…
No. Literally from Wikipedia: “Third-party software support grew extremely quickly, and within a year the PC platform was supplied with a vast array of titles for any conceivable purpose.”
Not a million chatbots with flaky guardrails and dubious value, getting pushed on random people. The value of a PC program was explicit and understandable.
IBM marketed thier PCs very effectively and launched with a Billion dollar boom, but then lost market share and ultimately lost their ability to sell PCs…
… Because the PC Compatible emerged? Yeah I know. That’s evidence of success.
Moving goalposts to a different metaphor (the dot-com bubble) makes me think you realized your first attempt at a metaphor sucked
The Wikipedia article is yours to peruse and fix if you think it’s wrong. It has examples. I just quoted something that was particularly funny given your insistence that AI is literally the PC and clones.
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No. Literally from Wikipedia: “Third-party software support grew extremely quickly, and within a year the PC platform was supplied with a vast array of titles for any conceivable purpose.”
Not a million chatbots with flaky guardrails and dubious value, getting pushed on random people. The value of a PC program was explicit and understandable.
… Because the PC Compatible emerged? Yeah I know. That’s evidence of success.
Moving goalposts to a different metaphor (the dot-com bubble) makes me think you realized your first attempt at a metaphor sucked
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The Wikipedia article is yours to peruse and fix if you think it’s wrong. It has examples. I just quoted something that was particularly funny given your insistence that AI is literally the PC and clones.
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