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Every system is driven by user adoption. At this point, it will be nearly impossible to dethrone the current methodologies. Not saying it shouldn't be done, j

• zwkrt 7y ago
  The classic way that this has always happened in the past is by solving a specific problem in a hacky-but-cheap way as compared to existing tech. The issue I see here is I can already run Unix on a smartwatch or a car radio, so it seems difficult to understand where new computing paradigms will come from. Google's Fuchsia is a contender, but I wonder how realistic it is that it would ever become 'the standard'. Maybe the future is a world of truly heterogenous operating system design, but more likely we will employ a one-size-fits all approach just like every other industry. All car engines are about the same, all shoes are constructed with similar parts, all stoves are basically interchaneable, it is unrealistic to expect that software will be any different.
• Razengan 7y ago
  > Every system is driven by user adoption. At this point, it will be nearly impossible to dethrone the current methodologies. iOS, when the iPhone first came out, turned many of the entrenched perceptions about computing devices around on their head, and people embraced it. Even without the celebrity power of someone like Apple, an experimental system could still thrive today in the shadows with a small cult of followers nurturing and developing it, until it breaks out.