19th
May
2006
“It’s our human nature to emulate things that are good. It’s our nature to make things complete. But when forming a market strategy, these tendancies won’t help out much. Too often companies go after market leaders by trying to reach parity in feature sets, or worse, by trying to do a little bit of everything. Below is a diagram analyzing the competitors in online photo sites circa early 2005. I’ve been using this diagram to show that you can compete smartly by not doing what your competitors are doing…”
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19th
May
2006
“Let’s say you have a digital camera that shoots in Raw format. However, you’ve been using JPG files ever since you got it, due to a sense of familiarity, simply not having the time to figure out Raw, or because you don’t like the larger file sizes. Sound familiar? That was me too, up until about a month ago.”
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19th
May
2006
“Too many of today’s web companies simply copy Google’s sparse homepage because they think some of that success might rub off on them. But Google was successful in spite of their design, not because of it. Google rules the web today because their technology was so great, so unique back then, that users were willing to overlook their hostile user experience.”
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