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by gouranga 5138 days ago
Superior technologies succumb to marketing from lesser products.

Going back to the guy who built a motorbike in the desert, the Citroen 2CV is a remarkable piece of engineering and design, but everyone would rather drive a disposable iPod (ford) than a LISP machine (2CV).

This is precisely due to marketing and turd polish.