Nintendo Wii: Sold like gangbusters.
64bit Processors: The computing standard.
Battlestar Galactica: Considered one of the greatest sci-fi series of all time.
Facebook: Continues to be the world’s leading social media platform by literally BILLIONS of users.
High Definition: HD only got even more HD.
iPhone: Set the standard for mobile smartphone form factor and function to this day 16 years later.
The only ones that look wrong to me are iPhone, Wii, and downloading movies from the internet. The rest are dead on. HD literally did exactly what they said, as soon as it got popular it was already on to 2k then 4k then 8k.
They said 64bit computing explicitly calling out the need for more 64bit apps. Dead on as well. When apple went 64bit only there was a huge uproar, even from me, because even in 2018 that was a huge problem.
Facebook they literally agree it’s fun and distracting but that it’s not revolutionary so there’s no reason for the hype. It’s the same thing as with TikTok.
I’m really surprised with how accurate it is honestly.
I disagree. HD lasted a super long time. That there would be a new standard after HD was never a question. As far as standards go it lasted a very long time and did about as good as any standard could.
64 bit was an absolute necessity. That it was a lot of work to switch to does not mean it was overhyped.
I don’t like Facebook but that doesn’t mean its success can be ignored. It became the biggest social network and was regularly mentioned in the same breath as Google and Microsoft, so I can’t see how it’s overhyped as much as I don’t like them.
The point is you should read the article rather than going off of headlines. Each thing in the list states as much.
The HD paragraph literally states exactly what happened. As soon as HD had made it to mainstream (actual tvs, laptops, monitors) it was already outdated. They were saying to not overhype it because it will keep happening. And they were completely right.
64 bit they were complaining about being overhyped because it was. Until you were able to get almost any app in 64 bit it was useless for all but the most tech savvy.
No one is ignoring the success of facebook. they’re saying that facebook as a social network was overhyped. It wasn’t the first, there was nothing remarkable about it. Just because Cavendish bananas are the most popular and most successful bananas of all time doesn’t mean other, very good, very tasty bananas didn’t exist before them. Cavendish bananas are just successful.
Nah, the iphone is also overhypped and overpriced
…seriously? It changed cell phones. It changed the world, honestly. If you don’t like the OS and the price, that I completely understand. But saying a device that changed the world is overhyped, I mean… what do you think it was hyped to do and didn’t follow through on?
Jesus, tell me you are a fanboy without telling me you are one.
They made marketing teams to believe we only should be using the huge screen model, that was what they changed to the world and liking it is subjective.
There were alternatives to using other brands and models, not having an iPhone was not a big deal and was mostly sold to people who wanted to show off or enjoyed the advantage of using it inside their Apple systems.
Steve Jobs was a damn good seller, he sold hype and people swallowed it whole, but as far as real innovation with the iPhone… not really.
I feel like the world used flip phones and used their phones exclusively for talking and texting. Blackberries were rare and browsing the internet on them was awful. The original iPhone kickstarted a paradigm shift of how phones were viewed. Now they’re computers and we do everything from ours phones.
They made our lives way easier, and they made our lives awful. And it’s all because of touch screen phones that became so demanded because the release of the iPhone and Steve Jobs skills at selling it.
I’m not saying in any way that iPhones are better than android phones, I’m saying the iPhone is what started this shift in how we live our lives.
Edit to say that you have the big screen thing backwards and I wonder your age and if you lived through that change. Apple tried to convince everyone that the original iPhones screen was big enough, then they increased it to 5” because androids phones were growing… it took Apple years longer Samsung and LG to make these huge screens.
I think you could argue downloading movies from the internet is the only true mistake, but again internet speeds weren’t great then, Redbox was doing well, and even YouTube was still young. The iPhone complaints are about first gen, and wii was great , but imo was a bit over hyped.
For a “calm your asses down 2008 will not be known as the Golden year of computing” the takes are all reasonable.
HD is still the standard for most? I don’t know of a single person who uses a 4k TV. 4K is still in early adopters phase.
4K is the norm for a few years now. Every new tv you bought since at least 2020 is 4K. Can you even buy 1080p TVs anymore?