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Black... nail... polish... Solves every LED problem. Xerox, why did you think the power led on your multifunction should light up not only my home office, but the room next to it too?
Black electrical tape is even better. Because then it can be trivially peeled off later instead of requiring polish remover and a brush.
Read something similar the other day about the original Walkman. The engineers wanted to add recording function, thinking it would help with sales and to only cost a negligible amount to add. Someone cleverer said no, because if you add that feature now people will be confused what it is for. If they don’t want to record audio, they’ll think the product isn’t for them.
Case in point: minidisc :) Recording was the killer feature for me. I recorded thousands of hours of band rehearsals with their stereo omni mics and the media quality.
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Black electrical tape is even better. Because then it can be trivially peeled off later instead of requiring polish remover and a brush.
Yeah, but electrical tape looks like garbage. Trade off is aesthetics vs ability to remove easily.
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More likely to go viral in that case, a headline saying "Walkmans sometimes record over your tapes!" When I was about 10, someone lent the school a tape of Holst's The Planets for a school play, one of the other students pressed the record button, and shortly thereafter the teacher played to the class a recording of me shouting "no stop" as I rushed for the stop button having seen what they'd done just a moment too l…
I thought that's what the little breakaway tabs on the bottom of the cassette are for Though I'll admit, when I used to use cassettes, I never write protected them
> But this isn't about the iPad or the iPod -- it's about product design. Obviously GenAI. The author time-traveled to us, stole that sentence and put it in his article. He got encoding issues on blogspot so he typed the dash himself.
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I have been thinking deeply about this problem. I bought a great, silent fan from Rowenta, with beautiful housing and does what it says on the tin with no fancy accessories. 3 speed + 1 very silent mode for sleep. Hey, it’s a European product, not some Chinese knockoff. At some point during design, one person must have said “you know, why not add a brilliant white light that turns on in silent mode? Wouldn’t that be…
Black... nail... polish... Solves every LED problem. Xerox, why did you think the power led on your multifunction should light up not only my home office, but the room next to it too?
I have some Black 3.0 (blackest paint on earth) I'm gonna try this with!!!
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…
I've never been enticed by a landing page (yes, datapoint of one). It's either recommendation from source I trust (which has included reddit) and some demo/review available somewhere. Never the landing page as they usually took too much scrolling to get to the point.[0]. Better host a quick video demo/video add instead of drowning the user in copywriting. [0]: Compare https://nova.app/ and https://www.gnu.org/softwar…
Read something similar the other day about the original Walkman. The engineers wanted to add recording function, thinking it would help with sales and to only cost a negligible amount to add. Someone cleverer said no, because if you add that feature now people will be confused what it is for. If they don’t want to record audio, they’ll think the product isn’t for them.
I have been thinking deeply about this problem. I bought a great, silent fan from Rowenta, with beautiful housing and does what it says on the tin with no fancy accessories. 3 speed + 1 very silent mode for sleep. Hey, it’s a European product, not some Chinese knockoff. At some point during design, one person must have said “you know, why not add a brilliant white light that turns on in silent mode? Wouldn’t that be…
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I thought that's what the little breakaway tabs on the bottom of the cassette are for Though I'll admit, when I used to use cassettes, I never write protected them
This story probably involves a cassette that someone copied at home and then didn’t break off that little tab.
Music back then wasn't cheap.
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I disagree here. That would be a marketing problem and I would have market it as for audio on the walk. With the focus on listening and the record option as a bonus.
Deciding on a product design that's easily marketable is also a marketing problem. You suggest adding it as a "bonus", but for whom? Recording what on the walk? How would you advertise that along the main feature people actually buy the thing for? If not, what purpose does it serve? It's a few cents, but that's still a few cents too much if that's not what you're convincing people to buy. Try to think of someone who…
It's often easier to just throw in everything that's easy to do with little thought about cohesiveness or user experience. Leaving the record feature out of the walkman was likely a more difficult idea to push than including it and I think they were right.