[dalbasal]

Incrementalism is the name of the game.

Cheaper, better devices... about an order of magnitude here. A larger user base, by more than that. A better understanding of UX paradigms. ETC.

The majority of successful products of the last generation were conceptualized and attempted during the dotcom, circa 95-00. Smartphones, social media, online dating, ecommerce, travel, cloud computing.... The user base, infrastructure, technology, culture and such just weren't there yet.

If you wrote off everything that was attempted but failed to catch fire in the 90s, you would have written off almost every tech product created since.