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Good deflection, but there are all sorts of relevant observations one can
make. A clear and obvious one is this:
If I make a widget and my widget is used by 7% of the population, if I want to
improve the widget I will consult the 7% user group. I won't look to the 93%
who may hold opinions on widgets, informed or not, right or wrong -- because
they're not the users. I don't care if the 93% wants the widget to be made of
plastic, titanium, aluminum, steel, manganese, strontium, or plumbum. I don't
care whether the 93% swears they'll buy a new widget every 6 months if only
I'll re-tool to make my widgets fit the extra-large hands of NBA centers. I
don't care what symbology or social-signaling value my widget carries, because
I'm not making widgets as social signal devices.
I'm making them for the 7% of people who use widgets.
Shame the bike "industry" can't do that. Shame you couldn't imagine it as one
explanation. Too far inside the industry yourself, perhaps?
April 22, 2015, 9:05 a.m. - tibor96
#!markdown Good deflection, but there are all sorts of relevant observations one can make. A clear and obvious one is this: If I make a widget and my widget is used by 7% of the population, if I want to improve the widget I will consult the 7% user group. I won't look to the 93% who may hold opinions on widgets, informed or not, right or wrong -- because they're not the users. I don't care if the 93% wants the widget to be made of plastic, titanium, aluminum, steel, manganese, strontium, or plumbum. I don't care whether the 93% swears they'll buy a new widget every 6 months if only I'll re-tool to make my widgets fit the extra-large hands of NBA centers. I don't care what symbology or social-signaling value my widget carries, because I'm not making widgets as social signal devices. I'm making them for the 7% of people who use widgets. Shame the bike "industry" can't do that. Shame you couldn't imagine it as one explanation. Too far inside the industry yourself, perhaps?