Early days of any era are full of competing standards that are essentially
unnecessary. The word "tragedy," applied to FireWire, sounds ridiculous. What
next? The ATM tragedy? Token Ring? FDDI? 100VG? SCI? SCSI? MCA?
How will the HDMI-DP redundancy play out? Who needs both? When one dies off (my
bet is DP will first), will we call that a tragedy too?
Another similar unnecessary "standard" is Thunderbolt. Some companies actually
prefer to use non-standard interfaces, even while pretending they're "better."
But then over time, it's those that exist in large numbers that win. Because,
just like Ethernet, PCI, HDMI, and USB, they don't just remain frozen in time.
Even if there's something out there marginally better, the technology that's
more widespread is bound to be improved, it is frequently improved in a
backward-compatible way, and then all the hype of years gone by sounds
strangely quaint.
Best not get overly dogmatic about these things.
Bert
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