There is a benefit of hindsight here: The micro, in the beginning, was a bit like 3d pronters now. Nice toy for enthousiasts but that's it. It took the GUI, wordprocessor and spreadsheet to get them out of the toy category and in the usefull category.
Mainframes etc could also deliver this, the main differentiator being price. IBM was dreaming of a mainframe for each city, and phonelike terminald in the company. Minitel and internet proves the vision was right, only the price wasnt
The category killer needed to be cheap as well ad usefull.
Node also has an obvious benefit: same tech in frontend and backend, hence less devs needed. A.k.a. cheap, at least it seems so in the short term. History will judge us both on the long term, I guess.
Mainframes etc could also deliver this, the main differentiator being price. IBM was dreaming of a mainframe for each city, and phonelike terminald in the company. Minitel and internet proves the vision was right, only the price wasnt
The category killer needed to be cheap as well ad usefull.
Node also has an obvious benefit: same tech in frontend and backend, hence less devs needed. A.k.a. cheap, at least it seems so in the short term. History will judge us both on the long term, I guess.