The big breakthroughs never happen. We just continue to iterate and A/B test ourselves into a convenient oblivion.
The big breakthroughs never happen. We just continue to iterate and A/B test ourselves into a convenient oblivion.
The Snapchats of today are just looking to do things differently enough to make some coin before the real next big thing arrived. It's like how much customization for AIM and other desktop messenger accounts existed before smartphones, but then after smartphones became ubiquitous, there is no "profile" or anything that takes up real estate. Just your name and your messages.
Going back to industrialization, just look at bikes. There were zillions of kinds of bikes in that era but nowadays we only really know 2: on-road and off-road. So even if things seem crazy now, it will only be crazy in retrospect as we live through a more technologically reasonable future.
Eventually we increase the ease of texting to the point where we're reading minds and the user never has to touch their phone.
I may be serious, I can't tell.