The Beta vs VHS analogy is flawed because one of the *main* reasons Beta lost was because it had a shorter time limit that prevented it from holding a full-length movie in many cases. Rental houses did not like the idea that they often had to stock two beta tapes for a movie, vs one for VHS.
Go look it up.
If you start taking a deep look at all the "innovations" in IT then you see that Apple really did not invent too much of what is in today's technology. Real innovation is in things like wireless etc, not wired technology. There are MANY other wired standards that are very good, but for some reason people think Apple is so innovative because they have ONE of those.
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