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This highlights the core tradeoff when developing a new product. "Don't waste time" vs. "Don't ship crap" "Fail fast" vs. "Wow your customers" "Ship early, s
by apike 14y ago
This highlights the core tradeoff when developing a new product.
"Don't waste time" vs. "Don't ship crap"
"Fail fast" vs. "Wow your customers"
"Ship early, ship often" vs. "Sweat the details"
The MVP philosophy focuses on the left side. The Apple philosophy focuses on the right side. Leaning to the left side is efficient, and might be necessary to stay alive. Leaning to the right side can be immensely satisfying and profitable.
A lot of companies can only afford to fail fast. However, if you can afford to sweat the details like Apple or Valve, there's nothing else like it.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoApple sweats the details, but overall they're very selective about which details to sweat, to the exclusion of all else. They're realistic about the fact that you need to ship, and that if you want to both sweat the details and ship, you've gotta focus on a few core features, and either nix all the others, or put them on the roadmap for future builds/patches/expansions. Seems to be the best of both worlds so far.