The Robot Co-op (who made 43 Things/Places/People) launched a new website equivalent of the ubiquitous suggestion boxes we see in real life: the whole premise of the site is for people to suggest that someone should do something.
The result is a long and entertaining list of serious and useful suggestions, as well as funny ones.
Here's my suggestion for Robot Co-op: they should make an anti-should do this site, called shouldn't do this, because what's infinitely more attractive in telling people what to do is to tell them what NOT to do!
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If it should be done, go out and do it. If it shouldn't be done, go out and stop it. If you can do neither, maybe no one else can. Perhaps you can learn to live without (or with) it.
The betamax died out in the mid 80's do to the same reasons MiniDisc, and 7" audio disks died. Sony kept the tech proprietary. The tapes, discs, whatever material had to be bought along with the machines, from Sony ALONE. At Sony's prices. Which are, even today, still at the top of the bar for consumer electronics. The VHS was licensed freely and had very strong competition driving down costs on both the machines and consumables along with raising competition for features on the machines. But Sony tech stagnated and did not continue to keep up with feature upgrades since they were not making the sales.
This simply a case of keeping too tight a hold and not having a strong enough brand to carry the price tag. Apple runs this risk as well. And, as competition increases giving other devices and OSes equal footing, Apple continues to loose market share. JUST LIKE Sony. It's simply a case of market econ.