You know, often I see these long speeches, always in retrospect about how one technology won over the other with a myriad of reasons. In almost all of these ca

You know, often I see these long speeches, always in retrospect about how one technology won over the other with a myriad of reasons. In almost all of these cases, the winners had one thing in common: They had better user interfaces. Not quality, not specifications, but user interface. All the google vs altavista, facebook vs myspace, iphone vs android and so on, always seem to end up with the simpler and more effective user interface winning. The post-analysis always points to a huge confluence of things happening, but for now I'll stick to my simple rule: Software that is easier to use and gives the user what he wants faster (and has the same feature-set and price) than another equivalent software will always become more popular, given enough time.