[openbeos] Re: Think useful, not cool

  • From: Erik Jakowatz <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 13:57:20 -0700

Ah!  Now I'm getting you on a totally different level; what an excellent
point!  Though now I'm wondering how this relates to the OpenBeOS
folks.  We've already got a spec for a kick-ass OS; aside from getting
developers to write cool stuff for the OS (so that people will use it),
where do we, the OpenBeOS guys specifically, need to be putting our
marketer hats on?

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Helmar Rudolph wrote:
> 
> > A super cool OS will, of course, ease the path to super
> > cool apps, but one has to convince developers that your
> > super cool OS is where they want to target those apps.
> 
> That's one element. The other one, as I said time and time
> before, is that BeOS has very few super cool apps. Most of
> them use the traditional paradigm (copied from Windows/Linux)
> and are barely innovative, lest using the BeOS to the
> fullest.
> 
> Developers need to think like users, like marketers, like
> geniuses...; they need to get into existing software and ask
> themselves "why doesn't that software do this or do that;
> can I possibly put that into my application?", etc. Really,
> what is needed is lateral and innovative yet practical
> thinking instead of copying what already exists.
> Only this way the BeOS can ever become successful, because
> we need USP (unique selling propositions) plastered all over
> the place, making it easy for people to dump Linux and
> Windows in favour of BeOS, whether they already have a PC or
> are considering getting one.
> 
> Just my 0.02.
> 
> Helmar

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