Thanks for the tl;dr. Isn't this the same for most industries, and for pretty much everything? Genuine innovation takes lots of effort building things that pe

Thanks for the tl;dr. Isn't this the same for most industries, and for pretty much everything? Genuine innovation takes lots of effort building things that people don't know they want yet, even IF they are in fact monetizable. And a LOT of things are not monetizable, or face serious difficulties gaining marketshare in environments with deeply entrenched players and expectations. The history of computing has much more to do with "innovation" in monetization schemes rather than computing itself. Great things get built only when someone discovers some hackish way to get people to purchase it. The monetization itself usually makes the product/technology worse than it would be without the monetization (e.g. DRM, copyright, ads, preinstalled spyware).