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You're being needlessly pedantic. It's pretty obvious that by "service" he means a business where you are paid per hour you work: all freelancers, consultants,

by emmett 14y ago

You're being needlessly pedantic. It's pretty obvious that by "service" he means a business where you are paid per hour you work: all freelancers, consultants, and all other businesses where the owner is a critical daily employee. Yes, that's not a typical word for the distinction, but you know what he means.

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saraid216 14y ago
> You're being needlessly pedantic. Um, no. I was being exactly as pedantic as he was. The difference was that my word choice was actually correct.
- davidw 14y ago
  Do you understand what I am trying to communicate, or not? It does not seem like a difficult concept, so cut out the "Comic Book Guy" routine. Go ahead and actually correct my terminology if you care to - furthering everyone's knowledge is always a plus - but otherwise you are not adding anything.
  - saraid216 14y ago
    No, I don't. As far as I can tell, you were trying to use made-up words to say that Jason Fried was lying when he said he was inspired by his cleaning lady's business model because there was some particular difference between those two business models that you found significant but could not express except to vapidly define "services" as "that which cleaning ladies do" and "products" as "that which 37s is moving towards".
    - davidw 14y ago
      Woah: I never called anyone a liar. Product business and service business are fairly common labels. http://swombat.com/2011/4/26/services-products http://swombat.com/2011/4/26/services-products http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/what-should-you-do-with-your-crappy-little-services-business/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/what-should-you-do-with-you... So I don't think they're made up at all, seeing as how they're in common use. It's probably true that there is not a black or white line between the two, and both can be good businesses, but I did think it fair to point out that cleaning is very much a "service" whereas 37 signals started out doing services (sites and so on) and moved towards products, which tend to scale up more.
rhizome 14y ago
It's less than not-typical, it's just wrong.

by emmett 14y ago

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saraid216 14y ago

> You're being needlessly pedantic. Um, no. I was being exactly as pedantic as he was. The difference was that my word choice was actually correct.

davidw 14y ago
Do you understand what I am trying to communicate, or not? It does not seem like a difficult concept, so cut out the "Comic Book Guy" routine. Go ahead and actually correct my terminology if you care to - furthering everyone's knowledge is always a plus - but otherwise you are not adding anything.
- saraid216 14y ago
  No, I don't. As far as I can tell, you were trying to use made-up words to say that Jason Fried was lying when he said he was inspired by his cleaning lady's business model because there was some particular difference between those two business models that you found significant but could not express except to vapidly define "services" as "that which cleaning ladies do" and "products" as "that which 37s is moving towards".
  - davidw 14y ago
    Woah: I never called anyone a liar. Product business and service business are fairly common labels. http://swombat.com/2011/4/26/services-products http://swombat.com/2011/4/26/services-products http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/what-should-you-do-with-your-crappy-little-services-business/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/what-should-you-do-with-you... So I don't think they're made up at all, seeing as how they're in common use. It's probably true that there is not a black or white line between the two, and both can be good businesses, but I did think it fair to point out that cleaning is very much a "service" whereas 37 signals started out doing services (sites and so on) and moved towards products, which tend to scale up more.

rhizome 14y ago

It's less than not-typical, it's just wrong.