Posted by Adam Richardson - December 22, 2008
An article in the New York Times says customers are being more attracted to "simple" products:
And, as it turns out, the buyers of consumer electronics could very well have been a leading economic indicator. Over the last year, they chose to buy two inexpensive and simple products, the Wii and the Flip, over competing gadgets bristling with more features.
But the article conflates two different definitions of "simple"
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Posted by Adam Richardson - December 16, 2008
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Posted by Adam Richardson - December 9, 2008
Today is the 40th anniversary of what came to be known as "The Mother of All Demos", Doug Engelbart's presentation to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. In this one 90 minute presentation he showed, in working form, for the very first time all of the following technologies:
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Posted by Adam Richardson - December 4, 2008
A couple of recent articles dovetail nicely about how specifications, and what those specifications describe, influence how people make buying decisions.
The first is from a study looking at how choices between competing products are made, first based on subjective criteria, and then when specifications are introduced.
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Posted by Adam Richardson - November 25, 2008
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Posted by Adam Richardson - November 17, 2008
Despite the vaguely technical title, the latest James Bond installment, Quantum of Solace, is almost completely devoid of gadgets.
Gee-whiz gadgets have been a mainstay of the Bond oeuvre, from car ejection seats to lighters that convert into pistols, from watches with lasers to personal jetpacks. But with the "reboot" of the series starting with the last movie, Casino Royale, the film-makers have dramatically downplayed the use of devices as deus-ex-machina methods of getting Bond out of a jam.
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Posted by Adam Richardson - November 13, 2008
I’ve been mulling for a few days about writing a post about the current sorry state of the US car industry, thinking about the $25 Billion proposed “bail-out”, the crashing sales, and even the crazy proposed merger of GM and Chrysler. But Thomas Friedman at the New York Times has pretty much written it for me, so go ahead and read it.
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Posted by Adam Richardson - October 1, 2008
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the new Palm Treo Pro, and I was fairly critical of the new smartphone. Why? Basically because I felt that it was good, but "good" isn't good enough in today’s dynamic smartphone market. To delve a bit more deeply into this I thought it might be interesting to use the Kano model as some people may not not familiar with this approach.
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Posted by Adam Richardson - September 10, 2008
iTunes 8, announced yesterday, introduces a couple of things which point toward a future where Apple branches out beyond its pay-as-you-go buying model for media. Are these a harbinger of new buying options that will appear in iTunes 9?
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Posted by Adam Richardson - September 4, 2008
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