"Kent M Pitman" <······@world.std.com> wrote in message
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> The question above contains a misconception. Being powerful is
> probably as much responsible for its demise as anything. I have a
> personal rule of thumb (that still needs a pithy title) that says that
> when a high end market leader goes head to head with a low end market,
> the low end market leader will generally win out... Certainly that's
> what happened here, anyway.
>
> There's an easy assumption that power, elegance, etc. are things that are
> market survival characteristics. I see little evidence that this is so.
The pithy title would be "The Innovator's Dilemma". See:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066620694/qid=1029029303/sr=1-2/ref=
sr_1_2/103-0215871-8404608
Very interesting discussion of how disruptive technologies succeed, and how
they don't.
-- Harley