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Overall, I got everything wrong. Technically, commercially and socially: wrong, wrong and wrong. I thought things would develop along lines that were of intere
by scandox 5y ago
Overall, I got everything wrong. Technically, commercially and socially: wrong, wrong and wrong.
I thought things would develop along lines that were of interest to me or which appealed to my personal aesthetic of computing (textual). And that viewpoint turned out to be the most myopic possible in terms of predicting what would actually happen.
If I predict something then almost certainly it will not occur.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoYou thought that we'd still be working with command line terminals? Or is there something more to it?
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoTo be fair, if you go back to the early releases of Windows and the Mac it wasn't clear that they would succeed. Both struggled to penetrate the market early on. People were happy with Word Perfect, Lotus 123 and dBase running os DOS. Even the developers of those applications were caught with their pants down when Windows did take off.