On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 18:14:47 UTC, Dave Jones wrote:
Only if the new product meets all the use cases of the old product. Again this is what you dont understand.
Why did the iPhone, and after that the smartphone industry as a whole, completely crush the classic cell phones when they have such a poor battery life? Smartphones don't have everything previous phones had. The pros simply outweighed the cons.
You don't need a new product to do everything the previous product did for it to be successful enough to replace it. I used to be all about being able to replace a phone's battery manually. With basically any newer smartphone now, you can't anymore.
Just because phones aren't doing everything PC's are doing doesn't mean they can't overtake their market. All they need is to have sufficient advantages over them, and even if you don't think this is the case right now, the average user could very well disagree. Just like with removable batteries (which wasn't even a really technical thing).
