It's kind of amazing how often the folks that pull ahead in a market are the folks that didn't fall asleep. For example: DOS wasn't technically better than any

It's kind of amazing how often the folks that pull ahead in a market are the folks that didn't fall asleep. For example: DOS wasn't technically better than anything else; it was just the one that was being aggressive about adoption. Or the fact that Sony was really in a position to OWN portable music in perpetuity, but went to sleep. Apple wasn't asleep, and didn't have outsized anxiety about digital music, so the iPod entered a market without a dominant "Digital Walkman".