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Microsoft product life cycle: 1> Microsoft sees successful tool and decides to copy it 2> truck loads of marketing money is spent 3> the product captures 5-1
by keanebean86 7y ago
Microsoft product life cycle:
1> Microsoft sees successful tool and decides to copy it
2> truck loads of marketing money is spent
3> the product captures 5-10% of the market
4> most people either don't care or mock it
5> at some point articles come out about how the product is mostly malware
6> Microsoft quietly kills the product 2 years later
- draw_down 7y agoWe're not supposed to say that stuff anymore! Microsoft is good now, because Linux.
- belltaco 7y agoCan you give some examples that you think follow that product cycle?
- keanebean86 7y agoIt's mostly the windows phone and app store. Bing except the malware and shutting down part.
- twblalock 7y agoI remember back when I had a Lumia 920 and searched the app store for “Facebook” there were several pages of results for apps called “Facebook” that all had similar icons. Searches for other popular apps had similar results. The store was full of fraudulent copies of popular apps in addition to the real ones.
- savethefuture 7y agoReplace Microsoft with Google and its pretty close.