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Remember that the architecture people are solving problems that they think they can solve, not problems which are useful to solve
And the fact that customers never asked for this feature and none of the earlier versions really took off as huge platforms doesn’t stop him.
We could spend years and thousands of people possibly and wind up with things that didn't contribute all that much to the ways that people are actually using the devices and hardware today. So my biggest advice is that we need to concentrate on actual products rather than technology, architecture or initiatives
It's really hard for people to accept how rarely future proofing and and planning for broad generalizations of things turns out to deliver value.
A product can be clearly judged ... Architectures and Technologies, SDKs and Toolkits can always claim that nobody picked it up; the Applications didn't use it the Right Way. You have to be using the things to make value from it.
— Kunal