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> success by accident Sadly, it doesn't seem to be uncommon for a company (even Apple) to hit a home run and not understand why it was so successful. And then
by ken 7y ago
> success by accident
Sadly, it doesn't seem to be uncommon for a company (even Apple) to hit a home run and not understand why it was so successful. And then they're unable to follow up on it.
HyperCard still appears in top-10 lists of "greatest software ever" -- and it's usually the only one which is no longer maintained and doesn't have a modern equivalent.
- proverbialbunny 7y agoSteve Jobs was strongly adamant about the size of the iphone. Likewise, Steve Jobs saw hypercard as the future, wanting it to sync up online between people, being like the future newspaper. It's no longer maintained because it's modern equivalent is a web browser. When Steve came back to Apple he pushed hard for advancing web tech instead.
- scroot 6y ago> Likewise, Steve Jobs saw hypercard as the future, wanting it to sync up online between people Everything I've ever read about Hypercard indicates that the opposite is true: neither Jobs nor the company could "see" that Hypercard needed a true network component, nor could they even see the business case for it as time progressed.