It's not so much the single occurrence as the general activity that I was railing against.
You view it as "creating something that 1.4 million people wanted", I view it as "1.4 people thought it was marginally amusing for a brief period".
My complaint isn't that those 1.4 people aren't there, it's that their approach to the "product" will result in a non-viable long term position.
I'm not saying you can't make money on fads, I'm saying that you can't make money long term (ie enough to recoup investment) on fads. This case may be small, but it's a symptom of a type of thinking that is gaining prevalence - the same type of thinking that caught us in version 1.0 with our pants down.
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It's not so much the single occurrence as the general activity that I was railing against.
You view it as "creating something that 1.4 million people wanted", I view it as "1.4 people thought it was marginally amusing for a brief period".
My complaint isn't that those 1.4 people aren't there, it's that their approach to the "product" will result in a non-viable long term position.
I'm not saying you can't make money on fads, I'm saying that you can't make money long term (ie enough to recoup investment) on fads. This case may be small, but it's a symptom of a type of thinking that is gaining prevalence - the same type of thinking that caught us in version 1.0 with our pants down.