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Is the incompleteness of your application hiding behind the term ‘Simple’? (gaurat.net)
1 point by nreece on June 20, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I think that Joel Spolsky did put it into better words, and covered the topic more in depth:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html

'It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features. So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies. [...] Unfortunately, it's never the same 20%. Everybody uses a different set of features. [...] When you start marketing your "lite" product, and you tell people, "hey, it's lite, only 1MB," they tend to be very happy, then they ask you if it has their crucial feature, and it doesn't, so they don't buy your product.'




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