Comment by cj
5 hours ago
Except businesses love it.
A lot (and I mean a lot) of people in IT like centralization specifically because it’s hard to blame people for doing something that everyone else is doing.
5 hours ago
Except businesses love it.
A lot (and I mean a lot) of people in IT like centralization specifically because it’s hard to blame people for doing something that everyone else is doing.
And HN users love it too. I've had people on this site say how great it is that their system routes 30% of traffic on the internet.
I'd be horrified. That's not the internet or computing industries I grew up with, or started working in.
But as long as the SPY keeps hitting > 10% returns each year, everyone's happy.
"No one gets fired for buying IBM!"
"No one gets fired for buying Microsoft" "No one gets fired for buying AWS" "No one gets fired for buying Cloudflare"
Perhaps the most graceful death of a tech company is that sentiment? Before some perception shift?