Comment by alberth

> " One of the very first PaaS offerings in history actually belonged to Canon ... until it was abruptly killed by Canon itself"

There are dozens of examples of people being first to market and not winning (Canon). As so, what's so interesting about this article?

- Facebook won, when MySpace and others were first to market

- Google won, and it was crazy late to market over Yahoo/Altavista/Excite.

- Starbucks won, when plenty of other national coffee chains existed

etc