Subject | Re: Adobe's Low hanging .... ? |
From | Sandman |
Date | 07/13/2014 16:18 (07/13/2014 16:18) |
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Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
Follows | Mayayana |
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MayayanaOk, if so, then I've always thought about it incorrectly. The dictionary has this to say about it:
Fad. Fashion. Craze. I think you're right about the definition, but it doesn't have to be past. It's just that people in the heat of the craze (I'm not naming names, but nospam :) don't see it as a fad when it's happening.
I don't see that the fad has to be connected to the result. In other words, hula hoops were a fad in the 60s and midi dresses were a fad in the 80s. PCs were a fad in 2000. None of them are gone now. None of them were entirely pointless. They're just not current fads now.I didn't mean it had to be completely gone, I meant that the "enthusiasm" part needed to be over for it to become a fad.
So what I was getting at is that cloud is a fad -- cloud being basically synonymous with online services -- that's being heavily hyped, mostly by companies that are trying to find new profits, and by lapdog media who want to keep their advertisers happy. Cloud has happened in large part because we finally have fast Internet connections, but also because we now have the computer power and software that we need, which has slowed the market. If people are content with their tools they won't buy new ones.Of course. But I always thought that a "fad" was something that was widely popular for a short time until its novelty wore out, like the definition on wikipedia:
But that's not to say that everything cloud is destined to be short-lived. I was trying to emphasize the distinction: The hype as opposed to the actual thing. The media says you want lots of cloud now -- for fun and profit. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Google are all hoping to lock in as many people as possible to as many cloud services as possible, through as many devices as possible. So the tablet fad is also part of that. Companies want to get people stuck in a new kind of pervasive walled garden.Well, I'm with you on the hype vs. the "actual thing" so to speak. And I have full understanding for a company to want to keep their customers (what you call "lock in"), which is something commercial companies have worked hard to do since... well, since there has been commercial companies. :)