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> Most cash-cows are really complex beasts. See Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Oracle I would argue that these products are cash cows no
by marknutter 16y ago
> Most cash-cows are really complex beasts. See Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Oracle
I would argue that these products are cash cows not because they're complex, but because they were created and marketed at the right time and place. In fact, I would argue that these products became complex after having become cash cows, after which adding features was no longer constrained by time or budget. Microsoft Office is amazingly bloated, for instance. I would argue that 95% of its users only ever use 5% of the features.
- Dn_Ab 16y agoWhat I wonder is, what is the coverage of features used by Every User? It seems unlikely that every user uses the same 5% of features. Thus the question is, does there exist some set of equivalence classes of feature usage across Office users that is bijective with the set of Office Features? And if not to which degree does it fail to be surjective. This would be a (silly) measure of how much users drive Office's evolution and how much its just a bunch of people thinking up nonsense to fatten up the feature list.