Cerabyte's Ceramic Storage Medium Hyped as Industry Disruptor

[Bwaze]

Steam and a few other delivery stores killed the physical copy, when I first used steam I never thought it would completely remove the need for a disc drive.

Cell phones have replaced the home for most users. They had to break up the landline monopoly.

Uber has replaced taxis almost everywhere.

Steam and others have killed the physical copies, but it has take literally decades - and it's just the delivery method of same type of product.

The same can be said about cell phones replacing landline - it wasn't really a product of a startup, the whole industry established itself before beginning to slowly replace the stationary phones - and in many countries households still have stationery phones, even if noone uses them any more - here for instance you can't buy internet & TV package without getting a landline phone with it, no matter which company you choose.

And Uber is even illegal in some countries, and where it is popluar taxis still exist.

 

[AusWolf]

Internal company politics and poor leadership generally allow holes to open in the market for smaller competitors to enter and eat their lunch, it's happened again and again throughout history. I don't think it's as unlikely as you might think.

Larger companies have the advantage of having enough capital to weather the changes in the market.
Smaller companies have the advantage of reacting to changes quicker (if their leadership is competent enough).

Similarly to ships: bigger ones don't feel the waves as much, but small ones can manoeuvre through rivers and shallow water.

Like basically everywhere else, not everything is about size.

 

[Pizdarenkowitch]

Microsoft has already everything working ... i guess the only one missing puzzle here is about the writing and reading speed which is 720KB/s which is not so grEat if you consider that a silica plate like that can actually be filled up to 360TB!!!