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-D-M-G- t1_iu5whx5 wrote

Apple - ever thought asking your customers what they want instead of what R&D wants to provide. It's called Customer Driven Products. Some guy name Jobs used to talk about it.

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LowFunctioningGenius t1_iu7cwy5 wrote

It’s actually not like that in most cases. People don’t ask for the things they get, as much as it’s the company that develops based upon an initial idea and then they see what customers think. I use apps like this all the time with my clients and students. Just because it doesn’t do anything for you, doesn’t mean it’s useless.

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me_me_me_me_me t1_iu8lpgc wrote

I dunno if you do this for a living but the last thing you want to do when building a brand new application is to ask users what they want. Users don’t know what they want. They only tell you what they don’t want and even then not until after you build what they said they wanted.

Far-and-away THE BEST way to deliver new applications is to quickly build and deliver a small, limited app that actually works and does something useful on live content. At least that way you can completely start over without losing much time.

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