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We've seen this story with all kinds of technologies in the past (Symbian and Blackberry -> iOS and Android. Yahoo and Altavista -> Google. Netscape -> IE, IE -
by jsnell 3y ago
We've seen this story with all kinds of technologies in the past (Symbian and Blackberry -> iOS and Android. Yahoo and Altavista -> Google. Netscape -> IE, IE -> Chrome. Lotus/WordPerfect -> Word/Excel.)
Most potential users are not actually yet a users of any products in this space.
Also while nobody will just spontaneously switch to an equally good or worse product, transformative improvements can and do happen.
Finally, users can be swayed by discounts and marketing to switch to an equally good or only slighly better product.