Their claims sound too good to be true, if you ask me. I am especially skeptical since they advertise that they will export your data to GitHub [0] and give their own website's repo as example [1].
[0] It's on the bottom of their homepage somewhere.
> You want someone to handle business, support, etc. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.
Is this really true? I mean that as an honest question, because, while being a coder with a typical distaste for shallow marketing folks myself, I think these "business things" actually constitute work, if done right (first and foremost good user support).
I would imagine that there exists a similar comment in a board for marketing guys and gals, where they say:
> You want someone to program the database. People who can do that are a dime a dozen.
The main difference being that the Homepage scaled much better, made it's creator a million dollars and had no physical counterpart product that had to be manufactured from a handcrafted original.
But otherwise, it's really "smaller" and "cheaper", I guess.
The main problem here seems to be: Why must every company on earth have its own Wikipedia page?
That said, I can see why e.g. Microsoft, the East India Trading Company and BMW should be recognized in an encyclopedia. And there are examples of products (lines) that could/should be mentioned in a vast online encyclopedia as well (e.g. Windows, BMW 3 series) because they influenced industries/trends/zeitgeist and/or lifes.
But why, for the love of god, should every consultancy, contractor, forrester and his second cousin have an entry on this site?
"If we are not able to be alone, we will only know ... how to be lonely."
This counter-intuitive conclusion might be the most important statement in this video. It is not so much about technology being bad or social networks eroding our real connections to other human beings, but much more about losing the ability to be silent, thoughtful and ... well just be alone sometimes.
He says Kiln has some advantages over github in the corporate space, while github has features for socialized open source coding:
So, specifically, Kiln gives you corporate things like:
* code reviews
* access control and permissions
* fast code search
* a news feed to follow code you care about
GitHub gives you things that match the sociology of open source projects:
* public home pages
* a social network, with profiles
* fork and pull workflow
But doesn't github actually provide at least two of the four points he mentions for Kiln?
Practice makes perfect. Writing short, concise pieces of text that express your thoughts in an easily digestable is really hard, a challenge of its own (despite what you want to say) - it's like a form of "professional" art, that few master.
That's certainly true for the office. But, as the author points out later in the article, many PCs were bought to serve as cash registers and info terminals, and those are replaced by tablets more and more.
So IMHO it's not that far fetched to say that individuals and businesses are buying less PCs than they were when Win XP came along. Doesn't say they aren't buying them anymore, just less.
While many of the OP's claims seem genuinely true, it saddens me to see how mad he becomes halfway through, after rightfully assessing facts, like the obvious flaws behind some the Apple patents.
But what started as a well presented and valid argument essentially became an unresortfull, self righteous Apple-Bashing that culmulates in "But as proud as you [Tim Cook] are, as disgusted I am. [...] Today, values have won and I hope the whole world listens. Your values have won, mine have lost, [...]"
[0] It's on the bottom of their homepage somewhere.
[1] https://github.com/the-domains/the-grid