I have to say, I do get a certain kick out of seeing the success of things I use, which started out being ridiculed. Twitter is an excellent example -- in its

I have to say, I do get a certain kick out of seeing the success of things I use, which started out being ridiculed. Twitter is an excellent example -- in its earlier days it really was something special, but people mocked it in the manner he describes. And of course now it's indispensable. Basically everything Apple made in the last 10 years or so would be another example. I think it's because to ridicule this things is to imply that their users are essentially idiots, whereas the one doing the ridiculing is a free-thinking skeptic. Then, slowly, you watch them all get iPods and Macbooks and Twitter accounts...