Yes, it seems a chicken-or-egg stage. If it is widely accepted, not using it would be like surfing the web without a browser. However, as it stands, it's like having a browser, but no web pages to view with it. But, it may be even a steeper challenge than that, as this is hardware. This might be the perfect solution to someone's problem, but I don't know what that problem is. Then again, I'd rather buy 21 Inc's IPO instead of Twitter's. I can't estimate the bounds on the possibilities created here. It's like nothing at all, or holy crap everything is different now.
Cisco and Qualcomm do not try and sell you something that you might have marginal utility for at some indeterminate point in the future. I read part of whoosiz Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz. It convinced me AH aren't good, they're lucky. Fuckin' $400 for something you can get from Newegg for $159 or Butterfly Labs for $50 is asinine.
Right!? But why the heck did they sign on? I'll buy it could be just for positioning, but there are very smart people at these companies that have been working along side 21 Inc for many moons. I have to think that the intended culmination of their efforts wasn't a bunch of bitcoin mining and an over-priced Raspberry Pi node. There must be an enterprise strategy, or maybe this can be stuck in Androids for a meshnet service? There must be another to market strategy.Cisco and Qualcomm do not try and sell you something that you might have marginal utility for at some indeterminate point in the future.
Damn, you aren't kidding. And they have thrown ridiculous amounts of funding at it. At $116m, they've got almost half the money thrown at Spotify. ...okay. Half of me is spitting out "micropayments bullshit, WTFever" and the other half of me is worrying at it like a dog at a bone. This is like the Voynich manuscript. It may be utter gibberish but what if it's notI'll buy it could be just for positioning, but there are very smart people at these companies that have been working along side 21 Inc for many moons.