Many large tech businesses start out as "toys" because its easier to build a new technology to pursue something trivial than something essential. That's just ho

Many large tech businesses start out as "toys" because its easier to build a new technology to pursue something trivial than something essential. That's just how development works. Hobbies will pay more for something that might be a novelty than an improvement in efficiency. Tesla started with Luxury cars for the same reason, and those cars could be considered "toys" of a certain type. The next Microsoft or Google could very well be developing a "candy crush" style game in VR right now, because that is the market that pays for experimentation.