SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: eliminating ideas that don'
Re: SIGIA-L: eliminating ideas that don't benefit the user
From: Phil Glatz (phil_at_glatz.com)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 19:38:45 EDT
At 02:24 PM 04/26/2001 -0700, Christina wrote:
>Turns out a way you can get funding from VC is to have more features.
also a good way to persuade baffled users to upgrade - Microsoft (among
others) has been doing this for years
much cheaper to put out an upgrade release than to re-engineer the beast --
and now instead of using only 20% of the features of Word, the typical user
is probably using 15% these days!
when I worked at Micropro, we called this "checkbox marketing" - those
checkmarks in the magazine ads must be convincing!
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