> Again, not arguing. Just trying to say that there could be multiple points of view. And if something works one way for someone, it may be completely useless and even stupid for others.
Yeah, but it's about who the thing is useful to, and how many people are in that category.
Amazon is very useful to the general population.
AWS is very useful to startup and corporations in general.
Zoom is very useful to the large amounts of people that like human interactions and consider text-only to be cold and distant.
Crypto so far is useful to... not that many people, and worst of all, many of those people are scammers and grifters and criminals. Many of the others it's "useful" to look a lot like marks, gullible people that lose a lot of money.
When a business the size of AWS decides it's not worth investing into it, that's a bad sign. They'll go for anything that can make them a ton of money long term.
The fact that AWS didn't find anyone to talk to about blockchain doesn't mean anything. They are just in their own bubble, talking to the CTO/CIO of large corps.
But just look at the mobile apps of the major enterprises, all of them are completely awful. But it doesn't mean that mobile tech is dead, right? Or even further, just go to any web app of any major US bank. It seems that they still think that Web is not for them. I guess all those CIO/CTO still believe that sending a paper check is a very efficient tech. So what can they say about blockchain? Nothing. I don't think any of the current enterprises would even catch it. They missed mobile and still catching the web.
According to a public stat, right now there are about 3000 Ethereum nodes hosted on AWS. Maybe similar numbers for other blockchains. But AWS didn't go to ask those customers about their use of blockchain. Maybe because it's mostly college kids, and AWS Sales Managers don't care about them. But that's the only people who can answer the question why exactly they use AWS for their blockchain hosting and how AWS can help them.
I've just googled the number. There are about 1M users of AWS, which compared to global population of 7B people makes it useful for about 0.01%. So it's a pretty negligible number, outside of NH. With that low number anything can be comparable useful imho.
I'm not sure how you measure share of scammers, so it's hard to compare. But I'm wondering you you care about scammers but not legit people who want to use blockchain tech? Latter is a magnitude larger audience.
Yeah, but it's about who the thing is useful to, and how many people are in that category.
Amazon is very useful to the general population.
AWS is very useful to startup and corporations in general.
Zoom is very useful to the large amounts of people that like human interactions and consider text-only to be cold and distant.
Crypto so far is useful to... not that many people, and worst of all, many of those people are scammers and grifters and criminals. Many of the others it's "useful" to look a lot like marks, gullible people that lose a lot of money.
When a business the size of AWS decides it's not worth investing into it, that's a bad sign. They'll go for anything that can make them a ton of money long term.