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The great thing about humans in groups - once you are charming enough to sell the right 10-20% of a population on your own, with luck, other people will soon st
by rphlx 15y ago
The great thing about humans in groups - once you are charming enough to sell the right 10-20% of a population on your own, with luck, other people will soon start to copy them, and pretty soon you are the Catholic church, or Facebook, or Apple.
- simpleH 15y agoThis has been well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle
- ashishgandhi 15y agoYou mean 10-20% of Apple customers were exposed to personal interactions with Steve Jobs? I'm not sure on that. Example: Apple had almost spent nothing on adverts or anything in India until a year (or two) ago. And yet the iPod was super duper popular. (Other products not as much as for the average Indian the price of the product + 30% tax by the govt. on the import puts them out of reach.)
- mayanksinghal 15y ago> And yet the iPod was super duper popular. Sorry, I disagree. Any stats on that? > You mean 10-20% of Apple customers were exposed to personal interactions with Steve Jobs? SJ > Technologists/Journalists > Masses is what people are suggesting.
- ashishgandhi 15y agoI don't sit on archives of data but if I Google something on those lines the top result is http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2006/08/71639 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/news/2006/08/71639. Indirect measure of the popularity of the iPod in India.