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by simonblack 1391 days ago
It won’t happen overnight, it will start out as a poor alternative, but slowly growing to become the robust and cheap ... solution that everyone uses.

That's the perfect definition for "The Innovator's Dilemma", the 1997 book by Clayton M. Christensen: what happened in the hard-drive industry, and other industries, as cheaper alternatives arrived and put the previous 'top-dogs' out of business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma