On: Technology as It Should Be

[usefulcat]

Talk is cheap. If you want to know what people really value, pay attention to what they do, not to what they say.

[yjftsjthsd-h → usefulcat]

Caveat: this only works when people can have/do what they really want. Ex. In a world where 99% of people haven't even heard of a smartphone that doesn't use Android or iOS, you can't tell if people value things that neither platform provides.

[WJW → yjftsjthsd-h]

Fair enough. OTOH huge swathes of the dev community, who DO know about the alternatives, still default to iPhones and Androids all the time.

[thomastjeffery → usefulcat]

Desires are expensive. Looking at what people do isn't as great an indicator of what they want to do as you might think it is.

[usefulcat → thomastjeffery]

'Desires' taken out of context are also not very meaningful (e.g. "if money were no object.." type speculations). Cost, particularly relative to means, being a prime example of such context.