This author had it right. Apple had to kill HyperCard because it let users be in charge of their computers, which is anathema to the company's business model. I

This author had it right. Apple had to kill HyperCard because it let users be in charge of their computers, which is anathema to the company's business model. In doing so, they also killed their chance at being in the applications software business (even today, they're not really a big player) and they lost out on the chance to define the web browser, which is what HyperCard could have become. I wrote a blog post about how endemic this problem has become across the industry, Everything Old Isn't New Again (Yet) https://mimix.io/en/blog/everything-old https://mimix.io/en/blog/everything-old