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November 27, 2003
The "Good Enough" factor
I've written before that I'm a big fan of VentureBlog. At the moment various weblogs are pointing towards the article on Accelerating Acceleration. However, here is a related post that is also brings up an interesting point.
As the low end of any technology gets better and better, it eventually hits "good enough" and then that aspect of the technology no longer becomes a significant differentiating factor.
Look at how we now take the Internet for granted - it's become ubiquitous - and how that relates to say the mid 90's. In more recent times, "technology" such as XML and to some extent Web Services have been used to differentiate products - but now the technology is just "there". And no longer a "unique selling point".
The original example is that of mobile phones - where we have moved from choosing a model based on standby-time to asking ourselves what the resolution of the integrated camera is. Notice that already, we take it for granted that new phones have cameras. Compare that to how you viewed the mobile phone just a couple of years ago.
Posted by Matthew at November 27, 2003 07:51 PM