From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Date: 1997/08/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 268801474 References: <5tvvsj$lh2$1@news2.digex.net> <5u2arn$gpt@sun585.failife.com.au> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: << The trouble is not that people mention it. The trouble is that they are made to mention it by people who claim that better technology will win out in the end. Get mad at them.>> But it is a bad example. The critical factor in the VHS victory was that it came out with longer playing tapes earlier, at a time when tapes were still quite expensive. True, the image quality was not as good, but that was not what mattered most to consumers. Thus this even it really much better cited as a simile for cases where technical folk misunderstand customers needs, and concetrate on aspects of what they see as quality which in fact are unimportant.