• Ferk@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    I mean, isn’t that what “get on or get left behind” means?

    It does not necessarily mean you’ll lose your job. Nor does “get on” mean you have to become a specialist on it.

    The post picks specifically on things that didn’t catch on (or that only catched on for a period of time but were eventually superseeded), but does not apply it to other successful technologies.

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      Yeah, I realized it suffers from (inverse) survivorship bias, only pointing out the ones that didn’t survive.

      Didn’t one company claim something like “the internet is a fad” or “touchscreen phones are a fad” and went bankrupt/became irrelevant because they didn’t adapt?

      • thanks AV@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        touchscreen phones are a fad

        Blackberry? I was like 10 at the time so this is based off my memory of who had what phone but that seems like the right guess