There’s usually a very good reason for that. It’s called complementary products. You don’t use something because it needs something else to be useful. That something else is not being made, because there’s no use for it, because nobody uses the original something. Communities can be like that: a product doesn’t fly, because there is no community and there’s no community because there are no users.
This is why Apple Vision pro did not become popular. Without software make use of its capabilities, it’s just an inconvenient and expensive extra monitor. But nobody would revamp their UX for a product nobody has.
Have published on this exact issue: Kütt, Andres. "Technology diffusion in ecosystems: a new model." Procedia Computer Science 268 (2025): 34-42.
This is why Apple Vision pro did not become popular. Without software make use of its capabilities, it’s just an inconvenient and expensive extra monitor. But nobody would revamp their UX for a product nobody has.
Have published on this exact issue: Kütt, Andres. "Technology diffusion in ecosystems: a new model." Procedia Computer Science 268 (2025): 34-42.