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The operative word for the MVP is "viable". What was viable for Apple with the iPhone was a beautiful touch-UI, amazing hardware, and some native apps built by
by tomasien 14y ago
The operative word for the MVP is "viable". What was viable for Apple with the iPhone was a beautiful touch-UI, amazing hardware, and some native apps built by Apple. It wasn't native apps from 3rd parties (not available until 2008), the fastest processor possible, or the optimal screen size or resolution. They iterated those things.
Minimal and viable mean different things for different projects, but defining and adhering to those are important for everyone.
- gfodor 14y agoThe problem is that this changes the scope of the word so much as to render it meaningless, since the arguments during meetings just shift to what exactly is "minimally viable."
- tomasien 14y agoWhich is pricelessly what you should be arguing about: what do we agree is minimally viable for what we're trying to do? If you can't decide that then you can't decide anything.
- siglesias 14y agoI think as Jobs himself said, the iPhone would have been a successful product if it were simply one of the three products that it was marketed as: the phone, the widescreen iPod, or the "Internet in your pocket." Instead it was all three. In addition to that, they did Maps, Calculator, Calendar, a Camera, Notes, Mail, Stocks, and Weather. And before the damned thing even shipped they managed to get Youtube on there. I think you'd have to do some pretty cruel and unusual things to the definition of "minimum" to get it to describe iPhone 1.0. That product went way above and beyond what it needed to do to get Apple a foothold in the phone market.