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I think it's fair to say if something is before its time then it's poorly implemented because it doesn't address any audience. Sometimes newer tech compliments
by menzoic 7y ago
I think it's fair to say if something is before its time then it's poorly implemented because it doesn't address any audience. Sometimes newer tech compliments older tech but "before it's time" almost feels like a euphemism in that case since it's all hindsight, it could have well turned out differently.
- doomlaser 7y agoIt could be excellently implemented, but if it's too expensive for the market, the market won't buy it. Look at NeXTSTEP. Today it's powering a billion iPhones and millions upon millions of Macintoshes, but for its first 15 years, it was sitting in a box that was too expensive for the market to bear. Carmack and Romero loved them and they built Doom on them, but the market went for commodity x86, MS-DOS and Windows 95. The components simply weren't commoditized to a level of being cheap enough to address a large enough market to thrive.