I was an early adopter of linux; single-boot in August 1992. Not because of anything that would happen only after some future threshold, but because it was wort

I was an early adopter of linux; single-boot in August 1992. Not because of anything that would happen only after some future threshold, but because it was worthwhile for me when I did it, at the time. The motivation was in the present, not in the far future. So I'm an early adopter. </bragging> So what. I still say that the advantages are described in vague terms like "cambrian explosion" and are supposed to arrive much later, that means those advantages don't exist. EDIT: Actually, let me put that differently. If you posit something impossible, then any consequence is possible: If pigs have wings, then anything is possible. The consequence ("cambrian explosion of uses" or whatever) are meaningless if they depend on an impossible condition. So it's necessary to show that the condition isn't impossible, see? So what could the possible but currently unmet condition be? I'm sure it's not an unwillingness to produce a phone that'll sell to 10% more users than the last phone. Your other part was the existence of an open source community. There is one that serves the current users, what's stopping the next 10% of growth? What I'm saying is that they have to be install because of current reason, not because of a future Cambrian explosion. So name it or argue that it plausibly exists. Naming only something vague in the distant future is tantamount to saying that it doesn't exist.