Watching stars up in the mountains away from light pollution is wonderful -while you're doing it. But then you start to realize that it was daylight when you climbed up that mountain. Now it's dark, and the path was kind of winding, wasn't it? Maybe we could just stay here until daylight, but it's now quite cool and the ground is starting to get damp. That night was a long time ago, and now I try to stay where there's a fair amount of light pollution, and even better, internet access. This is the newest comic from Randall Monroe at xkcd.
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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.