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Comment by csallen

6 hours ago

That's the incorrect application of the Jevons Paradox. We won't get bigger apps, we'll get more apps.

Think about what happened to writing when we went from scribes to the printing press, and from the printing press to the web. Books and essays didn't get bigger. We just got more people writing.

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