The *business* of software
Tenuous analogies between the US elections and the business of software
I'll award a small prize to anybody who can come up with the best analogy between the US elections and the business of software. I may also award one to the most tenuous.
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Permalink Reply by Andy Brice on -
Here is an attempt at the most tenuous.
What have Obama and Windows 7 got in common?
No matter how bad they are, surely they got to be better than the previous one!
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Widman on -
Amazon.com spend lots of money for years to become a house-hold name. Only now are they capitalizing on it.
Massive money. Mini advantage (just brand/image). Now garnering lots of extra money.
(They also continue to spend a lot of money on user experience, but that's beside the point.)
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Permalink Reply by Sohail Somani on -
The guys with more money win?
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Permalink Reply by Steve D on -
As much an observation as an attempt at an analogy to the software world, but here goes: despite everyone focusing on surface issues (I'm referring specifically to Andy's and Sohail's replies), it really is the product/candidate with the most substance that wins.
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Permalink Reply by yadu tekale on -
crossing the chasm.
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Permalink Reply by Sohail Somani on
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Steve D said:As much an observation as an attempt at an analogy to the software world, but here goes: despite everyone focusing on surface issues (I'm referring specifically to Andy's and Sohail's replies), it really is the product/candidate with the most substance that wins.
Can you give an example of this in the software world?
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Permalink Reply by Mark Dalgarno on -
In terms of programming languages McCain and Barack are like Java and C#. Both essentially the same if you were looking for the Lisp candidate.
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Permalink Reply by James Moore on -
HD-DVD and Blu-ray - The backers of both spent large amounts of cash pushing their individual technologies to a slightly weary crowd before a final showdown which Blu-ray won comfortably, due to its significant support from the PS3 wielding 18-35 demographic, banishing HD-DVD into oblivion with just a few HD-DVD fan-boys talking about a comeback sometime in 2012.
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Permalink Reply by Ken Hughes on -
It doesn't matter how passionate you are about your cause (software product / running party) and how much you think (or know) it will change the lives the people (US public / software users), people will go with what meets their needs (political change / different product)...
Software...
People have little interest your great new graphics and web 2.0 features when they cannot get their task done because you didn't add reporting to the product.
US elections...
People don't care about how tough you plan to be on terrorists, or whether your going to allow oil drilling in the Bay Area when there is a real danger of there bank foreclosing on them because you didn't sort out the economy.
So - listen to your market, and give them what they want...
.. KJ
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