Both points of view are valid, and both are represented in the Squeak community. There are projects to make 'businessy' frameworks to harness the power of Small

Both points of view are valid, and both are represented in the Squeak community. There are projects to make 'businessy' frameworks to harness the power of Smalltalk for conventional applications. There are also lots of people who love Squeak precisely because it's so different from their day jobs. They do what they find fun, and care not a jot if there will be one other person who might find it useful. Sometimes this is frustrating, in that you feel the effort could be channeled elsewhere, but if it weren't like that it wouldn't be Squeak. There will be real world applications for Squeak all the way down, but it clearly won't be another general ledger or another social bookmarking widget. It might be an iPhone that anyone can reprogram for themselves, or it might be a device that no-one has realised they need yet, or...