The oldest story in tech standards; a play in three acts:
> "We've developed Foo 2.0. It does not have feature parity with Foo 1.0, but it's more architecturally elegant in ways that are meaningless to the public. It took ten thousand man hours and was done instead of much needed upgrades to Foo 1.0."
*one year later*
> "Why is no one adopting Foo 2.0? Yes, it doesn't have feature parity with Foo 1.0, but it's frankly irresponsible of the public not to understand that 2.0 is a higher number than 1.0."
*ten years later*
> "Remember Foo? What a mess. Thank god Bar came along."
> "We've developed Foo 2.0. It does not have feature parity with Foo 1.0, but it's more architecturally elegant in ways that are meaningless to the public. It took ten thousand man hours and was done instead of much needed upgrades to Foo 1.0."
*one year later*
> "Why is no one adopting Foo 2.0? Yes, it doesn't have feature parity with Foo 1.0, but it's frankly irresponsible of the public not to understand that 2.0 is a higher number than 1.0."
*ten years later*
> "Remember Foo? What a mess. Thank god Bar came along."
*eleven years later*
> "Announcing Bar 2.0... "