I wonder if he would ever have done this if SSDs had arrived a few years earlier? In 2007 my hard disk was indeed the greatest bottleneck on my computer by an o

I wonder if he would ever have done this if SSDs had arrived a few years earlier? In 2007 my hard disk was indeed the greatest bottleneck on my computer by an order of magnitude. Replacing my spinning platter with an SSD (around 2010) has all but eliminated this problem. It's funny how innovation works: the advantages of a Chromebook are no longer linked to it's original purpose, but we have found the incidental advantages that came along with solving the original purpose so beneficial that it's now carving out a solid niche based on those alone. It makes me think of a detonator and an explosive. You need something to initiate an innovation, but that doesn't always have to be what sustains it.