[REBOL] Re: Killer App in REBOL
From: dness:home at: 9-Aug-2001 21:07
Ryan Cole wrote:
> Pringles made the "killer" chip, and they sat out to do exactly that. I will agree
> though, in that humans are not very creative as we like to believe, and that our
> sheer intelligence applied to this situation, well, is not much when compared to the
> masses of asses, at least on a relative weight scale.
>
> But, we are armed with a pretty darn interisting language, a few bold fellas, and
> other things that have yet come to mind.
>
Well, there is always danger in _any_ generalization, but it strikes me that attempting
to produce a `killer chip' is a very much more well defined activity than some vague
general
wish to create a `killer app'. The domain is reasonably well defined. The criterion of
what
constitutes `good' is probably reasonably well known (from market research) in advance,
and
we are looking for `improvement' in something pre-existing, in itself a fairly well
constrained process.
And, while I am not likely to do either, I would be much more comfortable (assuming I
_knew_ something about potato chips and their marketing) with a narrower and more
targeted wish to `improve' some existing product than to set out on some vague trip into
the unknown.
IME, `killer apps' are, like `happiness' most often a serendipitous and tangential result
of doing something else and being lucky on the way. That's also perhaps why those who
are
so successful in producing a killer app, are almost never successful repeating them in
`Act Two'.
