You sound as this is unimpressive. His motive was the right timing for a product. Knowing about the computing power, UIs, a.s.o. at the time of market launch is

You sound as this is unimpressive. His motive was the right timing for a product. Knowing about the computing power, UIs, a.s.o. at the time of market launch is essential. There are enough developers (and especially academic organizations) who get that wrong or ignore that totally.