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by arithma 2357 days ago
Users don't know about this performance gap, but there is a gap, and that gap is an economic opportunity.

Since the current practices are so inefficient, users are having to pay for this from pocket as hardware expenses. Buy a $1000 smartphone, to get the same experience as last-year's.

A different stack (don't need to reinvent the universe), can be branded as brutally efficient, uses slim hardware, and strict engineering practices to provide a much better experience at a fraction of the price (1/5 possible.)

I believe nobody is doing that yet since there are two main barriers:

1- Risk of no-market (I think this might be proven unfounded, given the current trend in price hikes)

2- Capital investment necessary to get started (But this also can be solved given the obvious appetite for the next-big-thing money being poured left and right, without anything catching on yet)