Comment by TeMPOraL
2 days ago
In other words: "who's gonna pay for that?".
The sad thing about continuing development of existing technologies is that all reliability, robustness, and multi-purpose capabilities get optimized away over time. In the ideal world, companies wouldn't even sell you hardware or software, they'd just charge for magically doing the one thing you want at the moment, with no generality and no agency on your end.
It's a miracle we still have electric outlets in homes, and not just bunch of hard-wired appliances plugged in by vendor subcontractors.
> In other words: "who's gonna pay for that?".
As opposed to what? Everyone pays the overhead and price of apps designed for things like local-first Bluetooth sync?
This is a situation where the market will prevail and people would go toward (and therefore pay for) apps designed to fit their needs, not apps designed around rare and unusual scenarios.
Build specific tools for specific situations. You won’t get anywhere trying to get all general purpose apps to focus on niche requirements.
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