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Bill Gates once complained that independent developers, other software companies aren't keen about building software for Microsoft's modern graphical environment, Windows, so he had to put his own engineers to work on that. Legend then goes that it's how Office application suit was born :) .

With SpaceX Musk surely understands he's aiming way higher than the capacity of the modern space launch market. Your, whaaaaat, reasoning was - and unfortunately even now sometimes is - the standard among the industry professionals. That's why rather early on Starlink - the project which was going to employ Falcon's capacities - was born.

With Starship we see some obvious uses for launches - orbital tankers - because Starship doesn't really fly anywhere from LEO without refueling, Solar system probes - we probably going to see many, space telescopes, unmanned satellites of many kinds, manned orbital stations. I hope a Moon base - or several - would be another customer of Starship launches. Elon was talking about picking some slice of the world market of cargo and passenger transportation. Maybe we'll see some other uses which we don't see today.

The point, roughly is that, yes, here we have "build and they'll come", and SpaceX will help them to come in all possible ways. So I disagree that it's total nonsense, it might be actually a very good idea.




> Legend then goes that it's how Office application suit was born :) .

Legend indeed. All the main Office applications either started on the Mac and/or were bought from third-party developers.


This is a legend :) some apps were running under DOS even before porting to Windows... But still a legend no worse than some others :) .


No Office application came from DOS to Windows. They either came from the Mac (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or directly started as Windows apps (Access). Word for DOS was a completely different application with no relation to the Mac and Windows versions.


I guess the Word for Windows is as related to Word for DOS as Atlas V is related to Atlas II. Thanks.


Vertical integration has always been a key aspect of SpaceX (and Tesla for that matter). Starlink is perfectly in line with that strategy.




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