Since you've self admitted to being "that guy," here's how I think that guy is wrong.
Almost any tech product, has predecessors. When the iphone came out That Guy was all over it. It wasn't the first phone that had web browswing, emails and music. It didn't even have whatever it didn't have at the time. Basically, just a nokiaberry with reality distortion. Nothing new.
That guy obviously missed the point because within a few days every website was getting iphone web traffic. Sites that had one nokiaberry hit every 3 months were now testing on iphone. When the app store opened, all the users were installing (even paying for) apps. People made sure they had a data plan. The important thing about the iphone is not that it could do web browsing, its that it could do web browsing in an easy, pleasant way.
I don't know if chromecast is any good. But pointing to an android-on-a-stick is missing the point. There are lots of ways of getting youtube or netflix onto your TV. Consoles, set top boxes, laptops, smart TVs, android sticks. They're all clumsy and most people don't use them. The hard part that is missing is doing interaction (eg, text search) in a way thats easy and pleasant and fits into people's slob time.
Almost any tech product, has predecessors. When the iphone came out That Guy was all over it. It wasn't the first phone that had web browswing, emails and music. It didn't even have whatever it didn't have at the time. Basically, just a nokiaberry with reality distortion. Nothing new.
That guy obviously missed the point because within a few days every website was getting iphone web traffic. Sites that had one nokiaberry hit every 3 months were now testing on iphone. When the app store opened, all the users were installing (even paying for) apps. People made sure they had a data plan. The important thing about the iphone is not that it could do web browsing, its that it could do web browsing in an easy, pleasant way.
I don't know if chromecast is any good. But pointing to an android-on-a-stick is missing the point. There are lots of ways of getting youtube or netflix onto your TV. Consoles, set top boxes, laptops, smart TVs, android sticks. They're all clumsy and most people don't use them. The hard part that is missing is doing interaction (eg, text search) in a way thats easy and pleasant and fits into people's slob time.