If anything the anecdote should be about identifying what users actually want. They didn't really want a faster horse, they wanted a way to get around faster. T

If anything the anecdote should be about identifying what users actually want. They didn't really want a faster horse, they wanted a way to get around faster. They couldn't envision a different way so they embedded the "faster horse" solution in their response. However Henry Ford correctly identifies the core problem and gave them that.