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Comment Re: This could have been seen from a mile away... (Score 1) 148

Newton was certainly not a successful product, but as it encompassed many of the things we take for granted in modern smart phones, I can't see it as a blunder either.

A former boss of mine told me "you can tell the pioneers by all the arrows in their backs" - meaning that a good, but incompletely-formed idea gets sorted out by the market over time, and not always to the benefit of its creators.

Comment Wonder if he can make it funny again. (Score 3, Insightful) 30

Two problems for the Onion of today, one of their making, one out of their hands:

1. To get an article published, the headline has to slay, and the quality of the article is way down the priority list. (This from a years ago article about how the writers room there works).

2. The world has gotten far weirder and dumber than it was when The Onion was a subway stop rag. Many times nowadays it's hard to tell whether a news story is legit or parody. ('US Senator thinks a woman can swallow a camera to do a gynecological exam'. 'Orange moron decides where hurricane should go with Sharpie', 'Inject bleach to ward off COVID'...)

I'm barely looking at The Onion at all these days because the humor is samey-samey due to 1., and edgeless due to 2.

Used to be my fave humor stop.

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