"There’s a reason FiftyThree’s Pencil is considered one of the most beautiful and revolutionary pieces of hardware in recent years"
It is? Am I the one in a bubble here or are the writers of this article in some strange feedback loop?
It is? Am I the one in a bubble here or are the writers of this article in some strange feedback loop?
It's not just these writers...
When's the last time you saw something that wasn't described as beautiful or revolutionary? You know it's bad when Silicon Valley spends an entire scene on the breathless "change the world" superlatives of startup culture [1].
1: http://readwrite.com/2014/05/20/silicon-valley-hbo-episode-7...
Journalists should know better than throwing around weasel phrases like these. Consumer devices like the Pencil are outside the scope of interest, let alone work, of most hardware and embedded software engineers, and it has changed exactly nothing about the field in general, thus hardly making it "revolutionary".
I'm not seeing any attribution at all as far as who put together this post, could have been a summer intern. Hard to believe (because of no attribution) that it's anyone at first round of any significance.
Edit: Just saw carbocations comment re: bylines below.