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Tech-savvy users don't drive adoption. They provide insight on product direction to help a nascent company with an immature tech product cross the chasm to main
by sowbug 9y ago
Tech-savvy users don't drive adoption. They provide insight on product direction to help a nascent company with an immature tech product cross the chasm to mainstream usage, saving it from the usual fate of foundering aimlessly until it runs out of funds.
These two suggestions -- Mozilla getting involved in meetups and not deprecating an API allowing vim navigation in the browser -- would take Mozilla even farther from relevance, assuming any nonzero opportunity cost to those actions.
- JoshMnem 9y ago> Tech-savvy users don't drive adoption. I think that they do to some extent. People ask their tech-savvy friends what to buy/use, or they use what work computers provide, which are configured by tech-savvy users. > Mozilla getting involved in meetups Not only meetups -- I'm talking about the feeling of the community in general. I've been using the browser since Mozilla Application Suite and was a very active early evangelist. The community was much different back then. > not deprecating an API allowing vim navigation in the browser I think that you are underestimating the enthusiasm people have for some of those Firefox tools. :) > would take Mozilla even farther from relevance Re-creating the grassroots-driven community would not make Mozilla less relevant. It's exactly what they need to do to survive.