The terrible twos…

No, this isn’t an essay on parenting. This post is mostly about competing technological standards that seem often to reduce to X v. Y. Remember eight-tracks v. cassettes? Betamax v. VHS? Blue Ray v. regular DVDs? UNIX v. DOS? MacOS v. Windows? Android v. iPhone? All clashes between terrible twos, some still going on. Consider Betamax v. VHS. The first system was clearly better, but the U.S. basically forced the rest of the world to adopt the inferior VHS. In the UNIX v. DOS battle, morphed no...