by forrestthewoods 4 days ago
Worse products win all the time. Inertia is almost impossible to overcome. VHS vs Betamax is a classic. iPod wasn’t the best mp3 player but being a better mp3 player wasn’t enough to claw market share.
Google and Meta don’t use Git and GitHub. Sapling and Phabricator much much better (when supported by a massive internal team)
What was the better mp3 player than the iPod?
unironically Zune is goated in its own way
anything from Cowon. Always has been
sansa clip+
Anything from iriver.