> Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.
> [...]
> If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
> Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.
> [...]
> If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular.