I want the “Save” button to work in my version of MS Word for Mac. It’s irritating. But getting the fix won’t change my opinion of the product one way or the other. It just eliminates an aggravation. What I really want is a new word processor experience but I don’t know what that is. So I am left with comparing what I think I want to my existing experience with features and functions familiar to me. I have limited my thinking to making the status quo incrementally better.
Napster changed the way people listen to music. They were truly disruptive. For good or bad things changed forever. Yesterday, I asked a group of college students “who pays for music?” One hand raised. People want free music but do they really want the kind of music you can get for free? We will find out soon enough.
Alex Osterwalder has a new book out called, “Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want “. In it, he talks about observing how your customers interact with your product, not just giving it to them and taking credit for a new customer. A product that gets put on the shelf is one nobody tells their friends about.
Free songs that sound like every other song and get listened to once on a streaming service will very likely not be what we call music in the future. Is that what we want? Really?
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