On 08/03/2012 11:59 AM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> So... why didn't they just make the 4GB drives to start with?
>
>    You could just as well ask why don't they make 64TB drives right now.

Yep, I'd be interested to hear the answer to that one too.

And why they aren't making petabit network cards yet. And why nobody 
sells gigabit USB connectors. And why there's no 64-core CPUs yet. [That 
last one at least has a plausible explanation: There's no software yet.]

Basically, why do all technological devices have to improve in small 
increments? Why can't they take big strides?

Sometimes there's a plausible answer. Nobody needs it. There's no 
software for it. The laws of physics make it difficult to cross this 
particular boundary. But a lot of the time, it just seems arbitrary...

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