Is anything actually popular because it's based on open standards? You could argue TVs or DVD players are but these are real appliances designed to do a specific job, not an open platform for geeks to guess what that job could be. I can't think of a single IT success story in this area. Maybe because technical standards incite initiatives that are technology-driven the outcomes are rarely useful to normal people whereas proprietary products tend to have a point so have to aim higher in the first place.
Why would the general public pay for a 'platform' as opposed to a real product? Windows may be a good example but how long before people realise it isn't that useful? Are people still fooled by choice and plausible speculation vs a useful product?
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Is anything actually popular because it's based on open standards? You could argue TVs or DVD players are but these are real appliances designed to do a specific job, not an open platform for geeks to guess what that job could be. I can't think of a single IT success story in this area. Maybe because technical standards incite initiatives that are technology-driven the outcomes are rarely useful to normal people whereas proprietary products tend to have a point so have to aim higher in the first place.
Why would the general public pay for a 'platform' as opposed to a real product? Windows may be a good example but how long before people realise it isn't that useful? Are people still fooled by choice and plausible speculation vs a useful product?
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