Me too. But I think we would be in a minority, and products are not designed
to please the minority! I'm not convinced that it's primarily a question of
marketing muscle. Persuading the buyers to want your product is only one
part of marketing. Producing the product that the buyers want is the other
part. I think the buyers want features. You and I may not think that the
buyers need all those features, but I think they want them, and software
publishers give them what they want. If enough people decide that they want
more stability and less features, will software publishers try to convince
them otherwise? I don't think so. I think that if and when the majority of
buyers become more interested in stability than they are in features, that's
exactly what the software publishers will give them - just like the motor
manufacturers.
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Brendan Reynolds
brenreyn_at_indigo.ie
Steve<STEVE_at_NOSPAM.COM wrote in message
<3734c2ef_at_news1.us.ibm.net-...-Brendan Reynolds wrote in message ...
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--I think the analogy with the motor industry was interesting, though. I
just
--don't think the market is at the same point that the motor industry was
at.
--I think the users want features, and are prepared to put up with bugs in
--exchange for features. If two mass-market applications were released
--tomorrow, one with lots of features and lots of bugs, one with very few
-bugs
--and very few features, which one would sell?
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-If both had the features that I needed, I would be one of the only ones
-buying the few features less bugs version :(. And the magazine awards would
-clearly go to the more features (more items checked) package.
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-Steven
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Received on Sat May 08 1999 - 21:08:08 CDT
