Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "The Rise And Fall of the "Tech Bro"" video.

  1. Microsoft is still selling the same OS and the same office tools as 30 years ago. Google is still an advertising company and Jeff Bezos is still a glorified Sears Catalog distributor with larger warehouses. Do you know why? Not because these guys are stupid. It's because there are only so many product and service categories that every human being on the planet needs. Look up the total worldwide market for violins. Will it surprise you if I said that Apple makes more money in half a day than all the people together who are making violins? Probably not. How many violins does the average person buy each year? THAT is the problem. ;-)
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  2. If you think EE is fun ONCE YOU HAVE TO DELIVER, then you are close to delusional. Been there, done that. No fun at all. You may have a point about career resilience, but you know why, right? Because embedded systems haven't changed in 50 years (we do exactly the same things with 32 bit ARM cores that we used to do with 8 bit Z80s and 6502s in the deep past) and analog design hasn't changed in 70 or 80. EE is simply more mature than CS. The rate of change is slower and some things (like PCB design) haven't changed at all.
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