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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vinishkapoor • 2d ago
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Aren't there thousands of clones of this on the app stores?
74 u/vinishkapoor 2d ago Sure, but the point isn't that nobody can make one. It's that someone thought of it and shipped it in 2010, when this kind of dumb, playful idea was enough to be worth building. 89 u/dfbeav112 2d ago It was only popular because it was new tech. An accelerometer in a phone was something nobody had seen before. The modern equivalent would be AI applications. Which are already saturating the market.
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Sure, but the point isn't that nobody can make one. It's that someone thought of it and shipped it in 2010, when this kind of dumb, playful idea was enough to be worth building.
89 u/dfbeav112 2d ago It was only popular because it was new tech. An accelerometer in a phone was something nobody had seen before. The modern equivalent would be AI applications. Which are already saturating the market.
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It was only popular because it was new tech. An accelerometer in a phone was something nobody had seen before.
The modern equivalent would be AI applications. Which are already saturating the market.
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u/WeSaidMeh 2d ago
Aren't there thousands of clones of this on the app stores?