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If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

ChadNauseam wrote: post #5

Apple messed up one thing about the iPad, which made me never use mine and eventually give it away. Basically, my iPad would die in a couple days if left unplugged. Because I only want to use it about once a week, that means I have to leave it plugged in all the time. Of course I or someone else inevitably wants to plug something else into that charger, so the iPad gets unplugged and forgotten about. Then, in a week…

> my iPad would die in a couple days if left unplugged.

Something wrong with your iPad then. All three of mine would easily hold a charge for more than 2 days even when turned on but unused (so asleep).

Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by vjvjvjvjghv »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #21
ChadNauseam wrote: post #5

Apple messed up one thing about the iPad, which made me never use mine and eventually give it away. Basically, my iPad would die in a couple days if left unplugged. Because I only want to use it about once a week, that means I have to leave it plugged in all the time. Of course I or someone else inevitably wants to plug something else into that charger, so the iPad gets unplugged and forgotten about. Then, in a week…

> my iPad would die in a couple days if left unplugged. Something wrong with your iPad then. All three of mine would easily hold a charge for more than 2 days even when turned on but unused (so asleep).

Mine loses maybe 20% over 2 weeks if unused.

Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by jongjong »

In any case, the landing page needs to be perfect. Anything less and you have 0 chance.

The most important innovation is in sales and marketing.

If you don't have brand recognition, your landing page has to make up for that. Making up the difference seems to be getting more difficult with each passing year. People are extremely cautious and getting increasingly so.

The average B2B user nowadays is literally triggered by anything remotely unfamiliar.

Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

momojo wrote: post #20

I've had so much fun writing small apps in pure JS and HTML witj Gemini (no harness or agent, just the free web chat) because it's forced me to keep my index.html below 1000 lines. I love the forced constraints. It's liberating. My day job is wrangling production-level codebases of a monolith service, so my tiny web apps let me live out the fantasy of cutting features instead of adding them.

One of the most important [to me] books, was The Simplicity Shift[0], by Scott Jenson.

It was written pre-iPhone, when phones had seriously limited screen real estate.

He talks about how important it is to “weight” features, and order them by importance.

I am wrestling with this exact type of issue, right now, with a screen of my app.

[0] https://jenson.org/The-Simplicity-Shift.pdf (a PDF of the entire book. It’s a short read)

Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by inigyou »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #6
ChadNauseam wrote: post #5

Apple messed up one thing about the iPad, which made me never use mine and eventually give it away. Basically, my iPad would die in a couple days if left unplugged. Because I only want to use it about once a week, that means I have to leave it plugged in all the time. Of course I or someone else inevitably wants to plug something else into that charger, so the iPad gets unplugged and forgotten about. Then, in a week…

Is it even possible for tablets to hold a charge so long and provide near instant wake? Why didn't you try powering it off when done?

all of my phones hold a charge for 2-3 weeks in aeroplane mode with no installed apps. Even my 6yo phone with 6yo battery does. A tablet has a much bigger battery but not a proportionally bigger power drain when the screen is off, you might hope for months in aeroplane mode with no installed apps.

Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by inigyou »

robbak wrote: post #12

> For markets that have purchasing processes with long lists of feature requirements, you should probably just crank out as many features as possible and not waste time on simplicity or usability. This was great snark.

That isn't snark — it's reality.

Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by [deleted] »

inigyou wrote: post #26
paulryanrogers wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it even possible for tablets to hold a charge so long and provide near instant wake? Why didn't you try powering it off when done?

all of my phones hold a charge for 2-3 weeks in aeroplane mode with no installed apps. Even my 6yo phone with 6yo battery does. A tablet has a much bigger battery but not a proportionally bigger power drain when the screen is off, you might hope for months in aeroplane mode with no installed apps.

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Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by claw-el »

admjs wrote: post #22

The hardest part of product management is saying no to reasonably good ideas. Bad ideas are pretty easy.

People generally classify the opportunity cost as zero, and if you want to say no to the reasonably good ideas, others will put pressure on you to just do it.

Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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Post by hankbond »

Our_Benefactors wrote: post #9
Retric wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They boot reasonably quickly, just turn it off. While on they are constantly listening for a “find my” signal so it’s easy to locate. For the overwhelming majority of people it’s a good tradeoff.

Not a solution. Something like “shutdown after n hours of inactivity” would fix it though.

every e reader I have owned does this.
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