It's probably already been written below, but the core problem appears, when the software is not being SELECTED by INFORMED receivers. In that case, no 'evoluti

It's probably already been written below, but the core problem appears, when the software is not being SELECTED by INFORMED receivers. In that case, no 'evolution'/survival-of-the-fittest is happening. E.g. when you are using an app tied to a service you are already sold on, you cannot select an alternative app to use (because e.g. your fitness-chain only has their own app). Similarly, if you are a gmail user, most users are not informed enough to figure out they could access their mail with an alternative IMAP client. Good software happens when you can choose between competing alternatives. But the world is currently filling up with siloed monopolies that don't have to compete. I see something similar with christmas calendar candles. Every december, supermarkets stock christmas candles of horrible quality. They get away with it, because every shopper only needs to buy a single calendar candle, and every shopper is an inexperienced christmas-candle buyer. Meanwhile, the rest of the year, you can buy big candles of the same size, of excellent quality, just without the dates of december marked out. TL;DR: A lot of inexperienced candle buyers exist only in december.