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I think the main reason Kiko failed was impatience.
Impatience by investors not letting the market for Web-based apps mature.
I wrote a post about this. The apps out there are so rudimentary that we're still in the feature checklist stage that we saw with word processors in the 1980s.
Having an ecosystem of competing apps ensures that new features are tested out, dropped, or shared around.
But it takes *time*. And I get the sense that we're accelerating again; that there's no room for the 'two people who whipped up an app over the weekend' and who'll wait to see what happens.
Keep killing off the geese and eventually you'll kill the golden one, too.