| ▲ | ryno364 6 hours ago |
| Reid Hoffman hates Musk. Think what you will of Musk (we all have our opinions), but Hoffman criticizing one of Musks companies is the equivalent of Steve Jobs criticizing Windows. Its a personal quibble and therefore not really news worthy. |
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| ▲ | petilon 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you want to know why you shouldn't choose Windows it makes sense to get Steve Jobs' opinion and then evaluate the opinion. |
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| ▲ | duxup an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I would want jobs opinion because Jobs would give a good analysis, more so because I would value his opinion. Any other person selling an alternative… might just be BS. | |
| ▲ | mbmbn 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It’s like Bill Gates criticizing Apple… if you really want to split hairs about the analogy used. | | |
| ▲ | epistasis 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is not a very good comparison because Jobs was well known for very pointed and accurate critique of software, which was one of his super powers at Apple. Bill Gates was known for figuring out how to manage software engineering, but nobody would listen to Gates about that, and in fact the only time I ever saw him critique software, talking about the complete usability failure of Windows and Microsoft's supporting websites, it did not require any sort of deep insight. Hoffmans critique about which businesses have good promise should be taken seriously, if with a grain of salt. | | |
| ▲ | mbmbn 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | It’s an analogy, it’s always going to be imperfect! Jesus Christ. | | |
| ▲ | epistasis 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sorry if that came across a bit too strong with too much overthinking, but in a pool of comments like this I'm trying to add a bit more meat instead of the lazy cynicism I see elsewhere! |
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| ▲ | petilon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you want to know why you might want to buy a product ask the company that made it. If you want to know why you might not, ask their competitor. In both cases the answers are valuable, but in neither case should you take the answers at face value. | |
| ▲ | mixmastamyk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Better, like Balmer criticizing the iPhone. Because he famously did and got it 100% wrong. ;-) | |
| ▲ | observationist 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's like some random lottery winner criticizing Apple - there's no special insight or perspective there. He is a fundamentally uninteresting, and pridefully smug person. |
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| ▲ | not-kinsale-joe 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Steve Jobs did have valid criticisms of Windows. |
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| ▲ | blenklo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| He still can be right. But yeah its clear that xAI is a trainwreck and Space-X is weird cult hype. |
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| ▲ | jklinger410 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is like the guy at Techdirt writing another article about how dumb Elon is. |
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| ▲ | expedition32 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That's like saying nobody should have listened to MLK criticising segregation because he hated the KKK. |
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| ▲ | trollbridge 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think that’s a pretty inappropriate comparison and you should withdraw it. Please edit your post? | | |
| ▲ | EdwardDiego 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The faux outrage is odd. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > faux outrage Less faux than a bit silly. Their outrage isn’t fake. It’s just misplaced. The comparison doesn’t work because the KKK’s violent racism isn’t comparable to commercial competition and the relatively-polite quibbles of two San Francisco billionaires. That’s less insulting than just wrong. |
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| ▲ | stackghost 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | lol, far more odious things get posted every day on this website. |
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| ▲ | Demiurge 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It would only be like that if MLK was trying to become the lead white supremacist. | |
| ▲ | fourseventy 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | ridiculous comparison | | |
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