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Don't buy this do one thing and well for a second. Using your own example: Before the iPhone, you had seperate: GPS Camera Flashlight MP3 Player and many othe
by dmritard96 10y ago
Don't buy this do one thing and well for a second.
Using your own example:
Before the iPhone, you had seperate:
GPS
Camera
Flashlight
MP3 Player
and many other things
With the iPhone, you got all of these and a nice compact package that you could carry with you at all times. Thats not to say feature creep can't be a problem, but more that sticking to hard and fast rules like 'do one thing but do that well' is largely an oversimplification of the world to make the world more comprehendible to those that don't want to look at the real nuance of products/markets etc.
- nekopa 10y agoAlso, in the now famous introductory presentation of the iPhone, Jobs even spoofed the audience that there were 3 products he was about to release, spinning them all into 1 item.
- kalleboo 10y agoThe iPhone didn't have all that with version 1 though.
- dEnigma 10y agoIt didn't have GPS and I think no flashlight, but it did have a camera, could play MP3s (and Video) and even supported geotagging for photos (though not GPS based)