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> If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' Oddly, enough that’s what he ended up doing. We even describe the power o
by hk1337 4y ago
> If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'
Oddly, enough that’s what he ended up doing. We even describe the power of the engine in horsepower. Granted it’s not a 1:1 translation to an actual horse.
- vba616 4y agoThere were a lot of Ford models before the model T, as you might guess if you heard that they started with "A" and went through the alphabet (skipping some). More than one of them really looked like a "horseless carriage". For example: https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/48168 https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita... That apparently came to an end after the model T. And Ford's first car company failed. Maybe you could draw a parallel between Steve Jobs and his "second act".