&gt; The proverbial &#x27;general public&#x27; never could be bothered to spend those ten extra minutes getting to understand that orange icon with the stripes<p>Eh, the general public didn&#x27;t care about smartphones for awhile either (email on blackberry? who needs it?)<p>The same can be said for VR right now, I think<p>RSS never got its chance.  Google Reader seemed to have growth until it was killed<p>Google could win a little bit of confidence back from the dev community if they brought it back.  I wonder how much it would cost them.<p>Admitting your mistakes is nothing to be ashamed of.  When big companies do it and provide what their most passionate users (computer&#x2F;tech addicts) want, it shows strength, not weakness.