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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by anigbrowl on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:13AM (#2880217)
He's spot on with one thing: manufacturers shouldn't let their customers tell them what to build. The general public usually doesn't know what it wants until it has already appeared.
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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by SoftwareMaven on Saturday August 13, 2011 @01:09AM (#2880329)
I agree. You learn about your customer's pains, then build a product to ease them. Asking your customer what features they want is lazy product management and gives you " me, too" products.
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Re:Windows Laptop Makers Can’t Catch Up to the MacBook Air by JamieEi on Saturday August 13, 2011 @11:41AM (#2881141)
Yet it still happens all of the time at big companies.
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