Think this will make it easier for them to invest in strategically important technologies (like AI) in adversarial countries (China) without getting pushback like they have been
This is so true. When I was a kid I could have gotten my parents to pay $5 / mo for me to explore my creativity. $200 not so much. I think this pricing is actually a really good thing for consumers.
Failures are always interesting, but it is incredibly hard to pinpoint why it failed. Lots of things can go wrong, and it is usually a combination of factor that kills a company.
I was once told only to take advice from people who succeeded repeatedly at a task. Building a company and succeeding is impressive, but there may be a lot more factors in play than just the actions of the founders. Building several successful companies makes the difference.
I started following a lot of indie games on Reddit, and it was a huge bummer to watch great-looking, fun, polished games crash and burn time after time
It definitely scared me away from investing in my own game ideas.. not sure if that was a good thing or not
Using git on the command line can be hard to learn and unintuitive for people - the desktop client makes things easier and that's a good thing (kind of like how the GUI made computers accessible to more people and ended up benefiting everyone in software...)
TBH, I felt the same way for a while... but I found that I really only need to actually remember a handful of things.. git add, git commit, git pull --rebase, and the git rebase -i HEAD~N
Other than those, when I need something I don't typically use, I have google. And most of those instances where it's not one of the commands above, the UI is usually pretty bad anyway. I do like the preiew/diff in VS Code a lot though on the git tab.
I do wish there was a way to post-operate on the most recent commit (uncommit) via the gui though. I tend to work in a branch, regularly squashing and rebasing against upstream branch... then would prefer to be able to (via gui) uncommit the most recent commit, just so I can preview/edit a final pass at once. That is about the only workflow that I sometimes want/need that isn't really in the box, or otherwise more of a pain in the UI anyway.