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Is it a niche though? Like the old Tolstoy quote "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" - are happy consumers alike in t
by garethsprice 15y ago
Is it a niche though? Like the old Tolstoy quote "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" - are happy consumers alike in the same way, but are the disconnected all unhappy in their own way?
There are plenty of techniques and products for the disconnected, but few of them ever gain wide traction - possibly because if a problem gets large enough, the market changes to reflect mainstream needs (eg. Facebook pulling Beacon when outrage became widespread).
- jodrellblank 15y agoMangling Robin Hanson's http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/08/reliability-theory.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/08/reliability-theory.htm... post, happy users have features they use which do what they want well enough and possibly features they ignore, wheras unhappy people have one or more feature which aren't doing what they want, or are missing. But which specific features aren't doing what they want will differ from person to person.