The Achilles heel of Android and iOS

[Matt Maier]

Of the two skills, engineering and sales, it's the sales skill that's more
generally useful (provided there are other humans around).

If an engineer does good engineering they STILL have to find a salesman.

If a salesman does good sales they don't necessarily even need a real
product or service at all.

Engineers don't like that, but it's as real as the sky being blue. You
don't have to manipulate the laws of physics to create value. All you have
to manipulate are people. And even if you do manipulate the laws of physics
you still have to manipulate people anyway.

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Alejandro Tejada
> <capellan2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Buying a NEW PHONE or Tablet is almost like
> > BURNING MONEY, just for the fun of it.
> >
> > Just imagine this (not so far away) scenario:
> >
> > For any reason, people stop jumping in line
> > to buy the latest and greatest phone or tablet
> > and prefer to wait... and wait... just for a few weeks
> > or even a few months (because time flies
> > when you are busy),
>
> Yes and I have a crystal ball that tells me exactly when that is going
> to happen...
>
> 1st sign - the fashion industry disappears. Men and women no longer
> feel it's necessary to wear 'this season's fashion'. Designer shoe
> shops all disappear because no one needs Jimmy Chu's any more, a
> sensible pair of last year's pumps from Target will do just fine.
>
> 2nd sign - economical city cars, not SUVs (small trucks to the rest of
> the world) become America's most popular vehicle purchase. Men in
> particular no longer base their car purchasing preferences on the size
> of their genitalia.
>
> 3rd sign - Facebook, twitter, instagram and their ilk all fade into
> oblivion because no one feels the need to advertise to the world how
> great their life is, and what wonderful things they have, and how many
> more friends they have.
>
> 4th sign - the nightly news is predominately filled with feel good
> stories about individual random acts of altruism, especially to those
> of different race, religion, social or economic background.
>
> 5th and final sign - the world is in a massive depression that makes
> the 'Great Depression' look like a short period of austerity. Even so,
> people will be buying the latest and greatest with money they don't
> have right up until everything collapses around them and ONLY when no
> one will accept their CREDIT cards will they be FORCED to stop buying.
>
> But just to be clear, even after that day, if Apple is only 10% the
> size of what it is now, or maybe gone all together, someone somewhere
> will have to buy something that is better than what you or I have to
> prove that they are better than you or I.
>
> PS saw an excellent video of a couple of guys who went out to gauge
> user response to the new iPhone 7 the day it was officially announced
> - even though it wasn't actually available.
>
> One guy would ask people in the street if they had an iPhone 6 and if
> they'd like to try the iPhone 7, and if Yes, he told them that a new
> feature was the ability to very quickly migrate ALL user data to the
> iPhone 7 at which point he'd hand it to his colleague to do the
> transfer. Whilst this was happening the interviewer would ask the
> owner a couple of questions whilst the 'technician' simply cleaned the
> iPhone 6, removed the case and put a new one on. They'd then hand back
> the 6 to the owner who was 'amazed' at their data was all just there
> so quickly. And yes, many owners thought the iPhone 7 was smoother and
> brighter - cleaning, who'd have thought; but many also liked the
> lighter feel and faster response???
>
> And you wonder why people are so eager to go out a buy the latest and
> greatest when they can't even tell the difference with what they've
> already got. It's not about the phone/shoes/handbag/car, it's about
> the perception of 'the haves' vs 'the have nots'.
>
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