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	Texrat	2010-09-09 , 21:18
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Originally Posted by jnwi

I agree with you, but on the other hand I also believe that to make geeks happy you have to make the mass market happy. We're not entirely different, we're a superset. The most frequent complaints on this very site are about stuff that s40 does better. And you could've found out about that exactly by listening to the mass market.

So even if I'm restating what you're saying, I think we need to be more precise and say that a winning product satisfies *all* the needs of the geeks, not just the *geeky* needs of the geeks. When I read about focusing on geeks, I think about things like the terminal application, but that's only half of the picture.

Well, obviously "geek" is broader than the stereotype. I'm an old school terminal command-line coder from the DOS/Unix shell days, but I still loves me a sweet GUI.

So let me qualify by saying socially-adept, broad-minded geeks. Satisfy that class, and you have a dynamite product.

But I disagree that satisfying the average user will usually trickle up to geeks in general. The Apple example makes the point. You can easily please the masses and lose true geeks.

I see the most frequent complaints about what enterprise tools do better-- but maybe we focus on different threads.

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