> On Aug 18, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: >> >> Another example of well designed objects be killed by rights. As the >> founder said, the business model is broken by the rights/changes >> promotion. > > This is something we UX designers often forget: That great products are both > killed *and* born out of purely business dealmaking, regardless of the UX. > It's sad to watch a business deal fall apart and kill a great product like > Pandora, but we have to remember that it was a business deal that enabled > the product to exist in the first place. For example, as great as iTunes may > be as a user experience, its success has as much to do with Apple's ability > to secure profitable deals with the record labels as it does with the UX. > Without those advantageous deals (deals that, if I recall correctly, were > markedly better than many other music stores were able to negotiate), the UX > couldn't exist.
I agree that the iTurns succeed because the have one of the greatest sales in the world. But there's still the paradox, if it's good for use like Pandora (and people want it), why the business model broken? Cheers, -- Jarod -- Designing for better life style. http://jarodtang.spaces.live.com/ http://jarodtang.blogspot.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
