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Re:Firing Frankness by stcredzero on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @03:03PM (#18710033)
That was the the prime example of the better tech losing.

You have to have marketing and market fit with tech that's good enough. That's the lesson of history, time and time again.

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Re:Firing Frankness by achillesheels on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:45PM (#18712015)
I really wish engineers understood that, while product is difficult to nail, it’s at most 40% of the solution. Because of their lack of professional customer-facing, engineers can’t apprehend how much friction exists in the market; mostly from just the ordinary regularity of people’s daily lives.
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Re:Firing Frankness by stcredzero on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:18PM (#18717286)
I'm an engineer who really wishes engineers understood this better.
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