This is rather funny. -----Original Message----- From: Raquel Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wish I could take credit for this!
THE EVOLUTION OF A PRODUCT: STREAM, trickle, OR DRIP Please regard this post as just one person's opinion. It is not intended in any way to disparage HumanWare as the fine company that it has the potential to be. But given recent events with this product named the "Stream", I can't help but make comparisons to the drugs developed to treat a variety of urinary problems. Given the history of the this product - its anticipated climactic release, and its constant adjustment timetable in order to meet anticipated performance expectations, alogy may be all to accurate. Perhaps, its the choice of the product name, which means steady and regular, but whose current status as to its availability can only be described as premature. I'm not blaming HumanWare for this - all the blindness tech companies have this "need" to just "get ux up" for the summer conventions, regardless of the ultimate performance that follows. Clearly, given the still unsatisfied and performance anxious customer base, the company needs to consider changing the name of this product. The question for the day is whether it should be renamed the "Drip", or the "Trickle", the state of affairs with this product having characteristics in common with both alternatives. A "drip" is a sporadic release, and that certainly has characterized this product's history. A "trickle" on the other hand usually is due to a forced slow down in delivery, which can often be quite painful, again anticipating pent up demand. So I think that either name would suffice, but a new one definitely has to be chosen. Perhaps, what this product needs, rather than just fixing the part of a defective headphone jack socket, is to borrow some products from the pharmaceutical industry. Maybe, FloMax just cure the problem of our newly named Drip or Trickle and rescue it from its state of anticipation, finally satiating the demand of customers. I think that the FloMax family is preferred to the Viagra product family as a possible help for production problems, however, because viagra is only a thirty-six hour remedy, and our supplier of the goods the problem that's going to reach almost three months very soon. All of this is meant to point out that what blindness tech companies do in the name of product releases and upgrades needs to be compared to similar situations with sighted companies making high tech products. Perhaps because the market is bigger and because there are more choices, the behavior we experience as a blind consumer group seems to be far worse than that which we would get from companies whose products have larger markets and whose customers greater variety. If you can't swim down one stream because it is blocked or polv can always find another one. Not so with blind tech. It's just something for the manufacturers of products for our marketplace to ponder as they consider their own highly anticipated and well delayed product climax. Did you miss a message? Well, don't. http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.
