[Telepathy] future of Telepathy?

[Daniel Pocock]

On 28/04/16 16:36, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro
> <mailto:daniel at pocock.pro>> wrote:
> 
>     On 28/04/16 14:16, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> 
>     > You might get surprised, because yes, crushing majority of facebook
>     > users would rather stay connected with 350 friends on facebook than
>     > be alone on a motorbike forever. You need to ask the ordinary users,
>     > not your IT friends circle.
>     >
> 
>     This is where you need to think about it more deeply
> 
>     Look at Apple: they are happy to have 10% of users who absolutely love
>     them while the other 90% buy other products.  Would they make a change
>     to their business model that might lose some of those people to try and
>     get bigger market share?  I doubt it.
> 
>     Look at Jeremy Corbyn (Britain's new Labor party leader): like Apple,
>     his message is constant.  No monarchy, no nuclear weapons.  People
>     either agree with him or they don't but everybody knows where he stands.
>      He doesn't care about all the mainstream voters who are uncomfortable
>     with his views and maybe he won't ever be elected PM, but he sticks to
>     his values.
> 
>     We need to take the same approach as Apple and Corbyn: prioritize our
>     values.  Serve our biggest supporters as well as we can instead of
>     losing sleep over everybody and everything.
> 
> 
> These analogies are flawed, however. Apples and oranges.
> 
> Apple is a for-profit company and even that 10% of the marketshare
> is enough for it to still be the highest valued company in the world.
> Btw now they reported losses after longlong time. Yes, I'm pretty
> sure there will be business model adjustment. Make no mistake,
> profit is the number one priority for Apple.
> 
> But you need to look into our own field - OpenOffice, Calligra Office,
> MeeGo, Mozilla is getting rid of Thunderbird and FirefoxOS, ICQ,
> MySpace, and so many more are left behind because they couldn't
> stay relevant today. Even BlackBerry is a sinking ship these days,
> despite their strong values of privacy.
> 
> Yes, we should keep our values up high and always in front, but at
> the same time we need to understand our target users as well as the
> "business landscape" and make sure we're ahead. Otherwise we'll
> get left behind in our world of ideals and illusions.
> 


Without our ideals, we would end up being indistinguishable from the
millions of "free" apps that people can download from Google Play