Will could be a push or wishful thinking so I agree on that it will not help directly.
Maybe is time to watch Merchants of Cool ?
It has everything to do with convenience and making teens fell "super powers"
If enhancing the product's usability is under your control, then you might be able to manufacture some cool
And that�s a question that really contributes to the question
Unless you give a shit about UX/UI to the next generation of newcomers of course
2014-02-12 15:10 GMT-03:00 Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com>:
too bad, this is not forum, where you can stick certain topics on top..
because this one reoccurring on a regular basis and contributes nothing to
answering
the question :)
but let me try to answer
Why Smalltalk is not popular?
because it's not.
This time I agree with Igor "extremely literal" answer.
Popularity is like "being cool", a social consequence out of your
control (a fad most of the times), you can't "turn cool" with pure
will.
But there are some attributes that might put you in the "cool
technology" list some day:
* Simplicity
* Reliability
* Performance
* Modernicity
* Interoperability
* Ease of use
Among others.
I think that if you focus in what you do, do it the best you can, get
feedback from "foreigners" and work hard, ceteris paribus, the success
is inevitable.
Regards,
Esteban A. Maringolo