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If what my parents do, in their clumsy sort of non-technical way, in the normal course of taking pictures and videos with their $75 point and shoot and downloading a few movies to watch without having to eat into their monthly bandwidth quota everytime my mom wants to watch one of a handful of old movies is "data hoarding" and exceeds the capacity of the machine a "power user" is using, then I think that both of these descriptors have lost all effective meaning.



Of course, your Mum also requires a car that can drive > 100 miles between fill ups.

The most "power user" cars in the world, Formula One, can only go around 60 miles between fill ups.

Large amounts of data doesn't make someone a power user, and lack of data doesn't make someone not a power user.


I think you are extending your analogy wrong.

A better analogy would be somebody who fills their trunk with their weekly groceries and commutes 60 miles total per day being considered the same as either an F-1 driver or a long haul trucker -- when their use cases for their vehicle are pretty normal.


>The most "power user" cars in the world, Formula One, can only go around 60 miles between fill ups.

Formula One is not a "power user", it's a sport.

A correct analogy would be truckers and professional vans.




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