Because some of the requirements and solutions are so niche as to appear invented. It’s not parody and appears earnest, but deeply specific to this one individual.
Examples:
“I believe that a phone should offer very reliably just these features:
Calls
SMS
E2E encrypted foss IM
Deep sleep and push notifications (or any alternative for notifications without draining the battery”
Very few people outside of HN would agree with this. A phone is currently the primary computing device for the vast majority of people.
And for radio:
“Just add some streaming addresses to a simple script.”
Podcasts: “ I listen to podcasts. Sometimes. With a modified version of the sxmo_rss.sh script.”
A staggeringly small population want to handle their radio and podcast listening by just editing a small script.
Even a lot of the HN crowd want an easier life than script editing to solve these sorts of needs.
Examples:
“I believe that a phone should offer very reliably just these features:
Calls SMS E2E encrypted foss IM Deep sleep and push notifications (or any alternative for notifications without draining the battery”
Very few people outside of HN would agree with this. A phone is currently the primary computing device for the vast majority of people.
And for radio: “Just add some streaming addresses to a simple script.”
Podcasts: “ I listen to podcasts. Sometimes. With a modified version of the sxmo_rss.sh script.”
A staggeringly small population want to handle their radio and podcast listening by just editing a small script.
Even a lot of the HN crowd want an easier life than script editing to solve these sorts of needs.