25 Sep
2005
25 Sep
'05
9:57 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once stated:
If you're talking about VHS and Beta, I suspect that VHS won because the
licensor allowed the adult movie industry (read: porn) to make VHS tapes
while Sony (holders of the Beta format) did not license their technology to
the adult movie industry (read: porn).
Now, in reguards to that, the PC had four things going for it: 1) I 2) B
3) M 4) cheap to license. I also seem to recall that IBM wanted too much
money to license MCA so the industry just ignored that.
-spc (Now, had IBM licenced MCA to the adult industry (read: porn) it
might still be a viable contender today 8-P
Between the 3", 3.25", and 3.5",
the 3" does seem to be the best.
BUT, THAT isn't what decides what becomes the defacto standard.
Dysan thought that it was software availability.
Tony seems to think that quality is a factor.
I think you misunderstood me. What matters _to me_ is the (design)
quality. I've long since realised that's generally a reason for something
to be non-successful. After all, the IBM PC caught on, as did VHS (in the
latter case, the Philips V2000 system was better designed and better built).