Because markets do not follow logic and better tech loses all the time, it's called speculation for a reason.

And the result of Sony refusing to license Beta.  Made calling the BlueRay battle for supremacy easy.  No way they would make the same mistake twice.  What was that other DVD format again?  Marketing works.

1.Is Smooth Jeffrey Lebowski?

2.When will monero get pruning like aeon? Why can't bbr pruning be copied?

3. Is active development for aeon ongoing?

4. Monero iOS wallet?

5. Isn't monero price high enough that devs make it their full time job? I assume they own and get paid a lot of XMR.

Most of the example 'failures' you reference are the products themselves, and not their underlying technology. In almost every case, the better tech does win, or is eventually superseded by something even better than that.

For example, the underlying Laserdisc technology did prevail (through CDs and eventually DVDs), though the Laserdisc format did not catch on due to practical limitations that made it inferior to other options at the time. The superior image quality of Laserdisc was largely unrealized on consumer TV displays, coupled with the fact that users were unable to record onto the disk. But this is still an example of the better tech winning, as optical disk formats have since dominated in consumer media storage.

Even the VHS/Betamax example is terrible, because although Betamax lost the consumer videotape format war, it survived successfully as a professional and commercial video format.

3 years? But why? :-(

Unlike 99% all of the other scam coins, there was no premine, instamine, ninjamine, or any other way for the core team to have amassed an unfair share of Monero during its first couple months of existence. Therefore, the core team does not hold a ridiculous amount of Monero.

When it first hit the exchanges it was around 0.007 BTC.... so it was never "free" to obtain tons of it.

Their efforts are funded by the donations of the community and their own personal finances.

And lets not forget those like WarpTangent who worked for purely altruistic reasons.

Ohh, I didn't mean All of the time I meant alot of the time. My bad, I was playing loose with the verbage.

AFA the Laser Tech it was only competing with tape when released and cdroms didn't come out till much later. they had ample opportunity to own the market but in their case they priced the majority out of the market. IIRC I was making $2.80 an hour and the machine was $800 and one movie was $50 which is just an insane amount for the time. I think they only had 4 movies on launch and Logans Run was the one I wanted.

Any news on the Monero Trezor integration ? now that RingCT is ready.

I guess that in long term Monero will rise to 50 USD and probably more. I'm happy about great work done by the developers and fluffypony is one of the best on the scene. As Charlie Lee stated in his twitter post, XMR team are doing honest marketing, so they are not expanding as wide as Dash. But Monero has better technology and in long term it should surpass all the other privacy oriented alts.