Re: Looking for Profile hard drive... dead or alive

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Mar 10, 5:58 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> AMart79...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>sell it now as I have permission to start a MBP fund. (The iPad's
> >>capabilities continue to amaze me.)
>
> > The iPad's incapabilities still amaze me and keeps me woundering why
> > anyone would buy it!  It's the usual Steve Jobs way of making you buy
> > version 2, 3, and 4 because it lacks certain features that all of the
> > competitors versions already have at a more decent price.
>
> There is always tension between the "controlled evolution" product
> model and the "wild west" model.
>
> The controlled model offers interface uniformity, predictability,
> and, hopefully, higher average quality of user experience.  This
> comes at the cost of dampened innovation and weakened capabilities.

That's true, though the capabilities the "i" devices lack are seen as
features by the media industries who are embracing them :-)

> The wild west model, in contrast, frees developers to do anything
> they can think of, in almost any way they can imagine, resulting
> in rapid innovation and availability of new features.  The down side
> is, of course, that non-technical users may be confused and
> disappointed by their encounters with the chaos of unbridled
> creativity.

The other downside is there's a lot of permutation to go along with
the innovation of the wild west, leading to an illusion of choice, at
least until someone emerges as the defacto vendor in a segment.

Matt