> Mass adoption is rarely a quality indicator. I wouldn't want to pay for the mainstream VHS model(s) when I could use Betamax (perhaps even cheaper). Oh, but

> Mass adoption is rarely a quality indicator. I wouldn't want to pay for the mainstream VHS model(s) when I could use Betamax (perhaps even cheaper). Oh, but it is. Imagine you were then, back in those days. A few years after VHS won, you couldn't find your favorite movies on Betamax. There was a lot more hardware, and cheaper, available, for VHS. Mass adoption largely wins out over almost everything. Case in point from software: Visual Basic, PHP, Javascript, Python (though Python is slightly more technically sound than the other ones), early MySQL, MongoDB, early Windows, early Android.