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The right stuff?

Posted on | November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment

I found this on BoingBoing.net.

You been to BoingBoing lately?

Give the piece a read!  What I am wondering is if we need to think about this when we talk about education?

No not the phones but the idea of giving people what they really need and not the crap that we want them to need!

Hmmm… Apple/education?

I am thinking I am onto a very big thing!

How Apple wins the smartphone game: By ignoring the marginal customer

According to the 2008 “Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study” by J.D. Power & Associates, Apple’s iPhone — a smartphone with no turn-by-turn directions, copy-and-paste, physical QWERTY keyboard, user-installable programs, expandable flash memory, or removable battery — rates a perfect five-out-of-five in the “Features” category, winning out over HTC, Motorola, Palm, RIM, and Samsung.

There’s only way to interpret that data: for iPhone owners, Apple has provided every feature that matters, even if that means leaving some features out. Obvious at first, it becomes something more when you ask the follow up: why are phones with more features perceived by their users as still having the wrong features? (Or worse, not enough features?)

Restraint, I believe it’s called. Or perhaps focus.

(Let the grousing in the comments commence!)

Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Survey [JDPower.com via Apple Insider]

The problem with education is simply a lack of focus!

Trying to do too much or too little or not knowing what it is trying to do!

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