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Re: The Elimination Strategy – Why More Makes Your SaaS Worth Less

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Post by whiplash451 » Fri, Nov 01, 2024, 9:03 PM UTC

resoluteteeth wrote: post #4

> The most valuable companies in the world aren’t built by adding. They’re built by eliminating. Not by giving customers more options, but by systematically removing every friction between them and what they want. > Amazon eliminated: > Store visits (shop from home) > Product hunting (search + recommendations) > Price research (automatic price matching) > Return trips (free home pickup) > Shipping decisions (Prime =…

The point is about what Amazon eliminated back then and in that sense, it is definitely true.

Re: The Elimination Strategy – Why More Makes Your SaaS Worth Less

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Post by whiplash451 » Fri, Nov 01, 2024, 9:06 PM UTC

Lots of comments about how Amazon, Netflix and Uber suck today. But the author’s point is about what these companies brought to customers when they started (and before getting enshitified).

Interestingly, all of them became the anti-thesis of the article in the end.

Re: The Elimination Strategy – Why More Makes Your SaaS Worth Less

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Post by margalabargala » Fri, Nov 01, 2024, 11:47 PM UTC

immibis wrote: post #28

margalabargala wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying they do this, but Tesla has computer-adjustable suspensions. If Tesla announced that they had the ability to adjust the wheel angles and did to over time to make tire rotation unnecessary, it wouldn't be out of the question. You are correct that mechanical wear and tear cannot be fully eliminated. No one can OTA a new set of wiper blades. But the amount of control that software has over a car absolutel…

If Tesla that they had the ability to adjust the wiper blade angles and did over time to make blade replacement unnecessary, it wouldn't be out of the question. Similar rhetoric could be applied to most maintenance. Summer/winter tyres? We'll just adjust the tyre pressure and handling characteristics in software! Battery replacement? We'll just optimize the charging curve in software! Brake pads? Software adjusted br…

No, it doesn't work like that.

The rubber composition, and tread patterning, on snow tires are categorically different from summer tires and adjusting pressure and whatever "handling characteristics" are won't give you the same level of control in snow.

Plus the tires wear down entirely eventually.

For the 12v battery, theoretically an EV could pulse-recondition an underperforming 12v battery, though I doubt any currently do.

There's a big difference between someone thinking software can solve everything, and pointing out that software has already solved some things, and the opportunity exists for it to solve more.