Indeed. Sometimes the "build it and they'll come" doesn't work at all.
It Itanium had excellent Linux support on day one it could have been a different story.
To this day I complain loudly IBM has no entry-level desktop/deskside POWER machines that are appealing to people who would buy a generic x86 workstation. If all they have is hardware for current clients to upgrade to, the platform becomes legacy pretty quickly.
I will go as far as saying ARM servers would never have happened were it not for pioneering stuff like the Raspberry Pi and other small hobbyist boards that served as an entry level and proved ARM was viable as a Linux host.
It Itanium had excellent Linux support on day one it could have been a different story.
To this day I complain loudly IBM has no entry-level desktop/deskside POWER machines that are appealing to people who would buy a generic x86 workstation. If all they have is hardware for current clients to upgrade to, the platform becomes legacy pretty quickly.
I will go as far as saying ARM servers would never have happened were it not for pioneering stuff like the Raspberry Pi and other small hobbyist boards that served as an entry level and proved ARM was viable as a Linux host.