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A device with 96% market share in the developed and developing world, that is also a fashion item, that most adults spend a good chunk of their waking life staring at… is over.

I do love HN at times, I really do.

In my case smart phones never started, I did and do find the form factor aggravating for everything but phone calls and reading but they aren’t remotely over.



> A device with 96% market share in the developed and developing world

honestly that sounds ripe for disruption


Over does not mean dead, the fax machine is long over, doesn't mean it's dead. The phone will take a long time to die, but it's certainly over for the phone.


So your definition of over is something that will die at some point in time.

Guess the Earth is over because in a few billion years the Sun will expand.



Would be helpful if it had anything to do with what we are discussing.

If you’d have said saturated I may have agreed but the adoption curve flattens because everyone who will adopt it has adopted it.

By that (and your apparent) definition of over, houses are over, microwaves are over, cookers are over, electricity is over…




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