[zkirill]

I am feeling relieved that there's a shiny new thing out there to distract investors, opportunists, and potential competitors, so that the rest of us can continue building in relative peace, solving immediate problems that sound less sexy. The innovation windfall will benefit our startup because it will bring better hardware and services at lower cost.

I remember learning that the introduction of the automatic paintball guns dramatically decreased the price of paint. This benefited all players but not equally. The price of paint for players who did not switch to automatic and kept using manually reloaded paintball guns was reduced to virtually zero. New players sprung for the shiny new automatic paintball gun and usually only played a few games before moving on. The regulars improved their skills with manual reload. When they upgraded to automatic they would have excellent paint conservation discipline and arguably would have a lot more fun for much less cost.