A piece of software that it's hard to imagine a company making: Candy Crush, but it only works when you're offline.

· Bits and Bobs 2/23/26
  • A piece of software that it's hard to imagine a company making: Candy Crush, but it only works when you're offline.
    • The end-user might want it: "only let me play this addictive game when I'm on a flight," or "only allow me to play this if I turn off the other useful parts of my phone, which gives me a nudge not to use it."
    • If you build the software yourself, you can align it with your interests easily.
    • But if a company built the software, adding a feature of "it only works offline" makes no sense; they might as well get the incremental use from online, too.
    • Now with infinite software we can make our own software more easily.

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