No, I've just seen the same story play another 10 times for different companies. As we all did -- but some behave like they just came on the interwebs yesterday. Makes all those downvotes look silly in hindsight...
See the contradiction? You first call the u-turn "inevitable" and then go on to say that "without kicking up a fuss there would not have been a u-turn".
You can't have it both ways. My case is simply: the u-turn was inevitable and the fuss was also inevitable.
What could have been different though is people not responding to this with awe, shock and vows of "abandoning Instagram" and such, as if the situation would not have changed in a week.
Especially internet-savvy people who have seen this tons of times. Some regular Instagram user shocked with the license change and thinking his photos will be sold without his consent? Well, that's OK. But a-list tech bloggers writing the same thing? WTF. That's what a call faux-rage.
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Does that make me a prophet for thinking that this is exactly what will happen and that the whole thing is a non issue?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4937548
No, I've just seen the same story play another 10 times for different companies. As we all did -- but some behave like they just came on the interwebs yesterday. Makes all those downvotes look silly in hindsight...
Just because the u-turn was inevitable doesn't make it a non-issue. Without kicking up a fuss there would not have been a u-turn.
See the contradiction? You first call the u-turn "inevitable" and then go on to say that "without kicking up a fuss there would not have been a u-turn".
You can't have it both ways. My case is simply: the u-turn was inevitable and the fuss was also inevitable.
What could have been different though is people not responding to this with awe, shock and vows of "abandoning Instagram" and such, as if the situation would not have changed in a week.
Especially internet-savvy people who have seen this tons of times. Some regular Instagram user shocked with the license change and thinking his photos will be sold without his consent? Well, that's OK. But a-list tech bloggers writing the same thing? WTF. That's what a call faux-rage.
Right, but no uproar = no u-turn, you can't have one without the other.