Why Do Fads Fade? The Inevitable Death Of Flappy Bird
What a weird article. It feels like the author wanted to convey his insight that the reason fads fade is due to the gameplay having a constrained information density. And then he felt the urge to follow the tradition of anchoring the thesis in a concrete current example, and he chose flappy birds. But flappy birds is not at all an example that satisfies the hypothesis. Flappy bird, as he mentions, was deliberately pulled from the store by its creator. Why didn&#x27;t he choose pokemon go instead? Because that hasn&#x27;t fully faded yet? I&#x27;m not trying to personally attack the author, I&#x27;m just making a comment that the style in this article probably isn&#x27;t what we want to emulate in our own stuff.