Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/13

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Subject: [Leica] In the hands of its engineers, not bean counters
From: masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)
Date: Sun Mar 13 16:26:51 2005
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A company in the hands of the engineers is in no way some key to
success. Most engineers are absolutely horrible at things like User
Interface and they tend to focus on technologies which excite them -
not those which people want or need.


Dave


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:27:46 -0800, Brian Reid
<reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
> Horse puckey.
> 
> I was an employee of Digital Equipment Corporation for many years. At the 
> end, so many people believed that the fate of the company was in the hands 
> of its engineers. They were totally wrong, and this is one of the reasons 
> why that company no longer exists.
> 
> If you can't sell a product, it doesn't matter how good it is. If people 
> don't want it, then you won't be able to sell it.
> 
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