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Comment by DrewADesign

10 hours ago

Right, but it’s essentially a fancy text editing environment. It should never have needed anything but barebones hardware.

> essentially a fancy text editing environment

No, it’s an IDE first. Not a text editor that’s extensible. It has a lot of features built-in, pre-enabled, and configured out of the box.

Yes, it can edit text. But it can do a lot more.

  • And it clearly violated the "only pay for what you use" philosophy. Like driving a bulldozer to get a soda.