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Graham Cottle29-Sep-14 22:25
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Plamen Dragiyski30-Sep-14 2:24
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The best product of Microsoft is Windows XP. Although sometimes is crushes, it is the most stable of all windows out there (until Windows 7). What happened to Microsoft? Bill Gates retired. Although it is the face of the company, Bill Gates is a techie guy and as all techie guy it cares for the detail. That's why Windows XP, Visual Studio 98/2003/2005, VirtualPC (first version) and a lot other great products are developed (either created or perfected) by Microsoft. Then techie lead retired and business guys got the lead. Result was Windows Vista. Techie guys do care about the product, business guys do care for the company (and money). So the product itself, the contact with OEM and other details become meaningless.
Now Apple do the same mistake. Steve Jobs although having a trade talent is a techie guy. It do cares for the product and created or perfected great products like iPhone, iPod, TrueType fonts, etc. Now Apple is collapsing under the care of the company itself and the money. Instead caring for the product, Apple is trying to bind the already won market to itself.
On the other hand Google is so techie company that goes for what every techie wants: experimenting. Experimenting products never "just works", they are experiments, they are meant to challenge the tester to find the mistakes. But the problem is simple users do not want to experiment, they want something that "just works".

So under-techie is bad, over-techie is also bad (unless you have billions of dollars to spent like Google).
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