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by digi_owl 3194 days ago
More and more i feel that focusing on consumer use of tech is a wild goose chase. How much tech do someone actually need while not working? If your social life is such that you need an itemized calendar etc to deal with it all then it is a second job.
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This a thousand times.

Unfortunately it's often more "scalable" to produce a uniform product for consumers vs tailored b2b/enterprise products. The former has little market power, the latter a lot.

For those of us that are two working parents with children, yes, yes we do. It is a second job, but one that isn't cleanly separable like a normal job. Shared calendars, Todo lists, spreadsheets and docs are a godsend.
As Gavin Belson said in the Silicon Valley pilot: "All these guys are like that, they're all about consumer facing."

You would expect a behemoth corporation to know better than a 20-something startupper, but still.

What about if I want to record all of my fleeting thoughts but don't want to physically jot them down?
Are you saying the real killer app for AR is notes apps? Seems unlikely to me, but I'm interested how you think that UX would look? Why is it better in AR than in a paper notebook/evernote/etc?