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by pinaceae 4465 days ago
you talk as if this already was a runaway success with consumers. did i miss something? cuecat bombed as well.

maybe it will take off, maybe it will not.

drawing any conclusions right now is bs.

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The cuecat has had an interesting second life as a book scanner. Niche market, yes, but works great for the purpose.
Many products come before their time, then bomb. Time passes, technology catches up, society gets ready, business models evolve, and the product succeeds.
Did you get the memo? HN users can deduce the future from a few well stated postulates that engender no controversy or original thought. When expectations are shattered by renegades and outliers, HN spends the next two weeks publishing reasons why we knew it all along.