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> "Apple is successful, therefore your criticism of [unrelated company and their unrelated product] is irrelevant. I see this a lot. It is ridiculous.
It's usually put against the class of arguments that being derivative or being recombinant is in itself a valid criticism of a product. The company isn't going to give up any revenue just because it found a better target market for a similar good; and neither will accepting the existence of predecessors help the predecessors any. Not to falsely represent your point, but do you believe that changing industries makes t…
Untrue. Ensure keep bringing new flavours and slight changes to formulation. That's tricky to do because regulation - the fact that Soylent appear to ignore all regulation is a bug not a feature.
> Soylent is aiming for use in perpetuity while Ensure/Boost are meant to be stopgap measures,
Soylent supporters need to stop spreading this lie. It's been debunked in every single Soylent thread. It's purely dishonest FUD by now.