Re: Killer app? RE: Extro-biz

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 09:07:02 MDT

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    Nice one.

    --- Emlyn O'regan <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au>
    wrote:
    > How does it take off? I'm pretty fuzzy on this;
    > basically, you'd need to get
    > accepted by social groups a bit at a time. Phone
    > companies could sell it as
    > a feature of newer devices. Hopefully it would be
    > hugely attractive to
    > twenty-somethings, as a start.

    Interoperability with the other popular scheduling
    apps
    might help a lot - but beware what happened when the
    IM
    world tried that. (Companies changing the specs
    withoutbnotice, specifically to reject competitors'
    compatible products. A good reverse-engineering team,
    monitoring the latest releases of and patches for,
    that
    which you want to be compatible with would help.) If
    you could pull this off, though, that could easily get
    your foot in the door - or, at least, convince
    competitors to adopt the same features. (Extropic
    goal
    met, even if the business would probably only earn
    minor profits at best.)



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