Remember that they choose to create this application at that exact moment. Maybe, 1 year later, they would have worked on a totally different idea and you would have said: Luck is involved, right timing, etc.
I was thinking more in terms of the product than these particular guys, who were wise in all of the products they decided not to bring to market.
What I am trying to express poorly is that you can't look at the success of a particular new technology and say "if it weren't for that implementation, nobody would have built it or brought it to market". If it weren't for the Wright Bros. someone else would have had powered controlled flight. If the DropBbox guys hadn't made a successful online filesystem, someone else would have (successfully) filled that niche eventually.
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Remember that they choose to create this application at that exact moment. Maybe, 1 year later, they would have worked on a totally different idea and you would have said: Luck is involved, right timing, etc.
I was thinking more in terms of the product than these particular guys, who were wise in all of the products they decided not to bring to market.
What I am trying to express poorly is that you can't look at the success of a particular new technology and say "if it weren't for that implementation, nobody would have built it or brought it to market". If it weren't for the Wright Bros. someone else would have had powered controlled flight. If the DropBbox guys hadn't made a successful online filesystem, someone else would have (successfully) filled that niche eventually.