In the classic book Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore divided the early market for a product into three groups, not two - the technophiles, the early adopters,

In the classic book Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore divided the early market for a product into three groups, not two - the technophiles, the early adopters, and the early majority. The author of this blog thinks of himself as an early adopter, but he's actually a technophile - he buys these products not because he needs them or because they solve actual problems he has, but rather because he collects IoT gadgets for a hobby. In Crossing the Chasm, Moore basically disregards technophiles as a market, being too insignificant to support a product. As I'm prone to saying, what characterizes early adopters is that they have a problem so frustrating, so confounding, that they will buy a buggy, incomplete product simply because it solves their problem. This separates them from technophiles in that they don't want the product, but rather need the product. This is a little different from Moore's view. Moore argues that early adopters choose products in order to develop a competitive advantage - they'll tolerate bugs and incompleteness in order to have an edge over their competition. Moore's early majority is a different market - they're not looking for a competitive advantage, but rather parity. They want to use the same product their competition uses. That's where the money is, but crossing the chasm from early adopters to early majority is HARD (hence the name of the book). An early majority product will need real polish in order to achieve the grace the blog author wants - no MVPs here! You don't get the early majority market without something really excellent, something with the classical and romantic in at least moderate harmony. But yeah. The problem with the blog author's PoV is that he's not actually an early adopter. He's not solving problems, except satisfying his hobbyist lust for the latest tech. So he's picking things up early in the MVP learning cycle. And frankly, features do outweigh gestalt at that point.