Fantastic post! But can we please, please stop calling power point presentations "decks".
Sure, but we can't call them PowerPoint presentations either.
How about "Presentation?"
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>I walk twice around the earth before even considering a subscription service. I can't imagine going back not having music subscription service. I don't have to make a decision which album to buy anymore and I don't have to worry about my kids pirating music.
That's because the music subscription service was designed from the ground up to be exactly unlike the previous music business model; in fact the spotify model boils down to legal napster. The problem is when something really has no reason to not be a one time purchase, like companies on instagram charging me $15 a month to send me three new pairs of socks twice a quarter, or maybe they mail me a wooden box once a mo…
I've actually moved to preferring subscription software for things like 1Password (which moved from purchase to subscription).
Software is a moving target where everything else is changing around it - OS, hardware, web infrastructure, etc. and having devs continuing development on a tool I'm using is useful. The subscription model in this case accurately reflects the reality and is better than randomly having to pay $45 on occasion to upgrade to a version that still works.
I'd also argue that Spotify is better than legal Napster with its streaming and music playlist curation. Spotify may be the best software application I use on a regular basis.
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Is there something I missed? I wouldn't call Vive "here".
I think Vive is pretty good and Rift is even better (I own both). What are your gripes with it?
Is the Rift better now?
I had them both before the Rift had its non-xbox controllers. The Rift let in light through the nose, had no room scale (needed to be in a chair), and just generally seemed like a worse experience.
Did things change or are there other reasons you like it? Are the controllers just that much better?
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#124There's a lot of griping about the "subscription economy" here. In light of this, the fact that their sales deck is (apparently) successful indicates that it is indeed highly effective.
That is, it sounds like they have an uphill battle, and apparently this deck has helped them gain ground. I'll give these techniques a try and see if they work for me (even though the clickbait title irks me).
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My first freshman physics class consisted of random symbols scribbled onto a random blackboard. I was not from a physics background though. The learning new stuff you're not familiar with is why it's noteworthy.
Understand but the article fails to do that for me. I do want to learn this stuff. Do you have any book/blog suggestions?
The topic comes up relatively often on HN. Here's a thread from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18241160
You may or may not resonate with this particular article's theory, but I like seeing things like this posted here because you can collect more and more examples. The textbooks will take you only so far though... ultimately you need to go take the in-person exam.
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> There are also other nuisances like forcing the framerate up to 60fps by frame interprolation, causing everything in 24fps (most content) to look awful, and in certain implementations, jitter. THat's just a shitty TV. My now almost 5 year old Smart TV handles 24hz just fine... the panel is actually running at 120 so 24 is an even multiple. Personally, I really like my smart TV and use many apps for stream non-mains…
As far as I can tell, its an intentional modification (makes the show look "better"), and I only usually see it on the more expensive, newer home TVs. Whats your TV model/brand?
What you’re talking about is one of those brain-damaged “motion enhancement” things. Just turn it off in the options.
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Sure they do. 3D TVs and bent TVs are two glaring examples of something people never wanted. The only way companies could uphold that view was by ensuring that no manufacturer had sensible alternatives - effectively forcing people that wanted a TV to buy it. And then pretending that the sales were proof that people wanted it. It is the exact same with the majority of subscription services. For a company I get that it…
Agreed, and I'd add high-end smartphones with <5" screens, and non-"smart" TVs with decent picture quality as things that people still want but are forced into alternatives.
For me the 5" screen of the regular Pixel (2) is perfect.
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Seems as though you actually agree with the article's premise, which you mistook to be about the sales deck. The point is that your messaging should be about what the buyer needs, not what your product does. You happen to have different packaging for it (as do I[1]), but overall it seems we're in agreement. [1] https://www.gkogan.co/blog/buyers/
With all due respect, I disagree. No business in the world needs another product or solution. No business needs a subscription-based business to thrive. Nor does every business need to do inbound marketing to survive as well. Plenty of businesses thrive without it. What Zuora and Hubspot (and many others have done) is use the same principles as religion to sell an ideology to their potential customers - an ideology t…
You guys are on the same page. Heck, the article even uses the term "Promised Land", that evokes thoughts of heaven/hell in most, I would say.
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VR is already here and better than you might expect
Is there something I missed? I wouldn't call Vive "here".
Odyssey+ is on sale for 300$ and is a darn good headset.
It's WAY better than most people imagine, even if it isn't "there" enough to be mainstream, yet.