If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
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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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Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#3Read 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.
Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#4Survival bias powers these "insights", 100% of the time.
Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#5Apple 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 when I actually want to use it, it's dead, and I use something else. The result was, I literally never used it.
Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#6Apple 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?
Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#7Survival bias powers these "insights", 100% of the time.
Maybe, but you can't count how many times I see it happen in reverse too. Without saying it directly, a person reveals that they believe there is nothing left to invent or that whatever is currently best established can never ever be replicated or (gasp) beaten.
Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#8Apple 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…
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.
Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#9Apple 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…
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.
Re: If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
#10Earlier 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.
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