The same goes for Microsoft's and Apple's OSes. The intrinsic quality of a technology is poorly correlated with its commercial success. There are a few cases wh

The same goes for Microsoft's and Apple's OSes. The intrinsic quality of a technology is poorly correlated with its commercial success. There are a few cases where a great technology did make a huge difference, but most people do not care if what they are using is efficient, maintainable, or more often that you would think, easy to use (what does matter is the steepness of the learning curve around t=0). The few cases where great technology made it to a broad use is when it opened new ways of doing things. I may be wrong but I think that personal computer advertising was quite poor but still gradually got users because of what you could do with it. Yet, is was really cumbersome to use at the time.