Re:Instacart Launches Costco
by ChuckMcM on Monday April 22, 2013 @07:00PM
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I don't think this concept is appreciated enough. Sure, the valley is a microcosm of people who are both willing to adopt early and willing to invest in some lifestyle changes in order to use clever technology.
However, as pg points out, to know if something is good you have to have someone volunteer to use it. While people in the Bay Area may use something nobody else does, the number of things they won't use that a larger portion of the population will is a small number. So when Steve and Steve were pushing their "friendly" computer at the Computer Club it was to a group of people would would spend $1,000 on something they didn't have an immediate use for, but they found uses for it, and from those uses inspired other people to see uses for it.
I've got a Zaurus Wizard, a Psion handheld, an HP Pocket Computer, a Palm Pilot, a Handspring, a Newton Message Pad, REX organizer, and an iPad. A lot of people have the iPad but much fewer have any of the other gizmos that led up to it.
However, as pg points out, to know if something is good you have to have someone volunteer to use it. While people in the Bay Area may use something nobody else does, the number of things they won't use that a larger portion of the population will is a small number. So when Steve and Steve were pushing their "friendly" computer at the Computer Club it was to a group of people would would spend $1,000 on something they didn't have an immediate use for, but they found uses for it, and from those uses inspired other people to see uses for it.
I've got a Zaurus Wizard, a Psion handheld, an HP Pocket Computer, a Palm Pilot, a Handspring, a Newton Message Pad, REX organizer, and an iPad. A lot of people have the iPad but much fewer have any of the other gizmos that led up to it.