Obviously this doesn't really have any bearing on points the author is making, but a small nit for posterity's sake - I think the point Clayton Christensen was

Obviously this doesn't really have any bearing on points the author is making, but a small nit for posterity's sake - I think the point Clayton Christensen was making in The Innovator’s Dilemma was not that people should adopt inferior technologies to gain leverage later. I think the point in that book was more that new technologies are often inferior in many ways to existing technologies when they first start out, and the way these new technologies survive/grow is by appealing to niches that value the existing ways in which the new technology is superior. Then, when the new technology matures a little more, the market to which it appeals grows a little larger, and this repeats.