Bill Gates, first to market? Gates has proven anything by innovative.
He's the quintessential, 'let the other guys put it on the market and
we'll steal it and market it better.'
DOS? He bought the company?
Windows? Stole the idea from Apple (who stole it from Xerox Park)
Internet Explorer? Netscape was their first.
The Zune? Don't make me laugh.
Gates has been watching and copying for as long as I remember.
Ron
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On Oct 19, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Technical Writer wrote:
And I know of a CEO who used to either get there first, or let the
wannabes struggle over the crumbs. Name of Bill Gates.
Quality is primarily a subjective opinion; witness the 90+% of the
population of the planet using Windows, despite the occasional Blue
Screen of Death, or necessary re-booting orre-installing required.
Similarly, whether a product is crap or not is again an opinion,
not an objective evaluation that can applied in all cases. The
Debian flavor of Linux is considered "the best" by some, and "the
worst" by some. The opinions are subjective.
Everyone TW wants to believe that he or she is producing quality
documentation that creates a warm fuzzy in the user, and makes
customers-for-life of the company that produces whatever is being
documented. I simply suggest a reality check may be more useful.
If the TW is documenting software, perhaps he or she should change
fields to one with a slower pace of life (and writing). The option
is to accept the realities of the marketplace, and how those
influence and constrain the production of technical documentation.
In a world in which dynamic onlne help files are rapidly replacing
hard copy documents, it seems more useful to focus on developing a
skill set that enables high-volume production of acceptable quality
content, rather than obsessing over trivial (to most users) details
of grammar, construction, or voice.
In that direction may lie the future of TW--get it written, get it
online, and concentrate on the Pareto principle of satisfying the
needs of the majority of users rather than obsessing over the
subjective opinions of the minority.
< From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[email protected]> > ...or similar biggies realize that
time-to-market is everything, > > Time-to-market is not everything
if you sacrifice quality. If you're first on the market but your
product is crap, the fact that you were first on the market is
irrelevant. > > I know a CEO who got fired because all he cared
about is being first on the market but his products were crap and
failed often. Other company's that were slower to market but turned
out quality products, stole marketshare from that company. The
company almost went under until the board of Directors wisely fired
him and put a new CEO at the helm.> > > -Gillian> >
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