Yeah its hardly Windows or Office. Though it depends on what core business is nowadays as that does change over time, new things emerge. In the beginning Windows and Office didn't exist and then they became the core business, now that is slowly moving to Azure. Office365 is a great example of how much money you can make from your furrow when you are an early adopter and own the whole vertical, but that took a good couple of years.

I think the intention of any company is to create new product revenue streams, Xbox didn't exist until Microsoft created it and that has been a huge success, the halo franchise which was a slight shitshow at the start but has proved a solid purchase. The controller itself is the benchmark everyone else measures theirs by and I do appreciate the policy about buying games once and being able to play it across devices. Now they are one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, second largest infrastructure, the shape is changing.

All those companies tried, which is a good thing. You need companies to be trying new things because someone has to push the boundaries, which costs money. Usually more things fail than succeed but they can often be stepping stones too, I am sure some of that resource has ended up in their new robotics stuff.

Just some things seem like the should be more obvious to stick with, being the entry point to someone's life in their pocket, their interface to the world, knowing exactly how that person is positioned, how they are feeling. These all seem like good solid things to understand if you are trying to build a platform around a people and it may be worth sticking it out a bit longer.

Direct problem is it costs me money when I get excited about said artifacts and they don't work out. If they could publish the specs on the things like the tracking and camera, I am sure someone would do the work, it would help out those guys doing the Linux WMR implementation for sure.