Maybe low hanging fruit only hang low in hindsight. There’s a kind of control-certainty associated with some things, we got this, and there are some things where we at least know what we need to work on. Other things are more vague. So we now have more of the first category (in some areas) and this makes the apples appear to be lower than they were and most likely still are.
I think the tech industry has also changed over time. I joined just as the iPhone and thus smartphone apps became a thing, but we just haven’t seen shakeups like social media, cloud computing, web frameworks, etc recently.
Crypto is effectively dead, LLM’s ended up mostly hype with limited utility, so what’s there to talk about? Random interesting side projects, retro technology, random science stuff, a bit of news, etc and that’s what HN front page looks like.
Perhaps we have reached peak Apple. I was a fanboy for a long time but when USB-C came to the iPhone something clicked for me. There was no good reason except money making why they didn't do it sooner. Perhaps the magic spell is broken. Yes, their computers may be good, but maybe the company that makes them, isn't.
I always wondered how the empire explained they had blown up alderan to all the planets. When part 5 began one could reasonably expect the rebellion to be much bigger..
The point was to instill fear in any would-be dissidents; This effect might have cancelled out any increase in determination the attack might have spurred.
I bought a Meta Quest 3 and it also seems to miss apps that were there before on the Oculus Rift a few years back.. at least I recall having a Google Earth app, now I can't find it.
Because Google never updated the app to support the Quest or released it on the Quest store, which is a different store than the Rift, and probably has different requirements.
You could try the Wooorld or Wander apps, though, as alternatives, which are on the Quest store.
You can use the MQ3 as a PCVR headset by plugging in a very fast USB 3 cable and in that case you can use the Rift version on the Quest to run Google Earth. I was also looking at this model
I know you can use a Quest Link cable to play some things on the PC store and almost included it, but I didn't see Quest on the supported platforms for the store page and assumed it needed to be on there explicitly if it was going to work.
I'm now cross-referencing it with Lone Echo, which I know works on Quest 2 and 3 since I played it recently, and it also only says Rift and Rift S for supported platforms, so yeah Google Earth probably still works on Quest 3 via a Link cable, especially since it still has new reviews as of January 2024 on there. Haven't tried it myself though.
I would suggest reading 2-3 books from your tech domain, I mean the tech stack your startup will be using, and maybe 2-3 more about your niche (for example if you are in online advertising, read books about advertising in general and online in particular)
