Political arguments are fine and dandy but aren’t worth shit in money and candy. As a person hustling for money the reasoning for the climate doesn’t matter. I don’t care why iPhone is more popular in rich countries. I care that I can get a market share.
A. I didn’t report you. So let’s get that out in the open.
B. I’m not being a fanboy. My preference doesn’t matter at all. I’m making an argument that as a business I should focus first where the most money is. It happens to be with the iPhone vs Android and others.
I don’t see any personal value nor community value in debating this with you so this will be my last post with you on this topic.
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Let’s stop it, I agree. But I want to stress that I appreciate your first point.
Thank you.
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Saw this in another thread. Thought it fits right in there. A case on what not to do if you ask me. They want people to invest a lot of money in something thats brand new, unproven and requires a subscription to be (fully) functional.
Over 400 euro for the hardware + 14 euro per month subscription fee. Hardware that’s pretty much useless without the subscription. A hard pass from me. I wonder who their target audience is. A product for those with disable income for sure. I think the cheaper 89 euro item they sell is just a reservation, you have to pony up the rest of the money later.
Not seeing anything special sound quality wise. Plus latency will also be an issue. Something you can’t really compensate for when making music live over the internet. If only one person on your ‘call’ has a lag spike or just bad pings my bet is that it will feel terrible to use. Can’t really make up for 100ms pings in real time.
Context: I’m a consulting security architect/fractional Chief Security Officer. I’ve worked with maybe a hundred different dev teams, from Fortune 50 to 5-person startups over about 20 years, and see as much of the business side as I do the engineering side.
Two things:
First, either your business model can align with the interests of your users, in which case they’re your allies, or it doesn’t, in which case they’re not. If you have the choice (and in this context we do), the first path is easier and delivers better results for everyone.
Second: Almost any technical model can work well if you take the design of the installation process and software quality seriously. Given the propensity of music folks to (need to) keep machines locked to specific OS versions for decades to keep old software alive, independent installs without auto-updates are probably good, but that doesn’t mean a smooth update process can’t be built.
Free third opinion:
Read Kathy Sierra’s book Badass: Making Users Awesome. She talks about how to design software so it actively supports users learning how to accomplish their goals via that software. If more audio tools implemented even half the stuff she talks about, we’d all have so much more fun with the tools we use.
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the reviews are good.
I look forward to reading this.
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It’s so simple and yet so ignored.
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