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The author seems to keep making the same mistakes - the latest being on iPhones and BTC.

Do I care that Android devices have larger market share? Not at all. Apple is on the high end, profitable part.

Should you care that the crypto ecosystem has a few bad actors, and may not be for 90% of the population? Not at all, and for the same reason.

Some customers are said to be the "harbinger of failure" [1]. Considering the author employment history, I might say the same: some employees may be harbingers of doom for the company that hires them.

If he had been working at Apple (=>iPhone) instead of Sun then Google, he might have had more of a point... but still, past performance not being indicative of future performance, I'm extremely cautious about old hackers who think they know it all and extrapolate WAY outside their area of competence.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...



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