사실은 내가 지금 맡은 프로젝트에서 내가 가진 완벽주의는 내 성질만 버려 놓을 수도 있다.
아무도 내게 안정적인 소프트웨어를 만들기를 기대하고 있지 않고
오직 빨리 개발해서 오픈하든, 버리든 알아서 할 소프트웨어를 원하고 있다.
혼자 열받고 있는 건지도 모르겠다.
다들 대충 만들고 시장에 팔고 버그 패치를 원한면 그 때 돈을 더 받으면 된다.
그게 소비자의 돈이든 회사의 돈이든 내 알바가 아니다.
그렇게 하는 편이 자본주의 세상에서 이득이고
소비자들(유저 혹은 나를 고용한 사람 등...)에게 내 제품을 받아들이게 하는 방법이다.
비슷한 예로 'disruptive technology'라는 용어가 존재한다.
처음에는 허접하지만 싼 가격과 간편함으로 승부해서 점점 high end 시장까지 먹어버리는 것 말이다.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology
Disruptive technology
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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The definition
The term disruptive technology was coined by Clayton M. Christensen to describe a new, lower performance, but less expensive product. The disruptive technology starts by gaining a foothold in the low-end (and less demanding part) of the market, successively moving up-market through performance improvements, and finally displacing the incumbent's product.
By contrast, a sustaining technology provides improved performance and according to Christensen will almost always be incorporated into the incumbent's product.
The theory
In certain markets, the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can learn and adopt the new performance. Therefore, at some point the performance of the product overshoots the needs of certain customer segments.
At this point, a disruptive technology may enter the market and provide a product which has lower performance than the incumbent, but exceeds the requirements of certain segments thereby gaining a foothold in the market. Christensen distinguishes between low-end disruption which targets customers that have been overshot and new-market disruption which targets customers that could previously not be served profitably by the incumbent.
The disruptive company will naturally aim to improve its margin (from low commodity level) and therefore innovate to capture the next level of customer requirements. The incumbent will not want to engage in a price war with a simpler product with lower production costs and will move up-market and focus on its more attractive customers.
After a number of iterations, the incumbent has been squeezed into successively smaller markets and when finally the disruptive technology meets the demands of its last segment the incumbent technology disappears....
Examples of disruptive technologies
| Disruptive Technology | Displaced Technology |
|---|---|
| Printing press | Manuscripts, Scriptoria |
| railways | canals |
| the automobile | railways |
| digital cameras | photographic film |
| mass-market cellular telephony | fixed-line telephony |
| voice over IP | analog and fixed digital telephone systems |
| Hydraulic Excavators | Cable operated Excavators |
| ADSL | ISDN |
| Internet Protocol suite | proprietary or fixed-configuration networks |
| EIDE/UDMA hard drives | SCSI hard drives |
| mini steel mills | vertically integrated steel mills |
| minicomputers | mainframe computers |
| personal computers | minicomputers |
| Personal video recorders | Video Home System |
| Desktop publishing | Phototypesetting and manual pasteup |
| Linux and BSD | Unix |
| Flash Drives | floppy disk drives |
| Container Ships and Containerization | "Break cargo" ships and Stevedors |
Not all disruptive technologies are of lower performance. There are a several examples where the disruptive technology outperforms the existing technology but is not adapted by existing majors in the market. These occur in industries with a high capitalization sunk into the older technology. To update, an existing player does not only have to invest in new technology but must replace (and perhaps dispose of at high cost) the older infrastructure. It may be simply most cost effective for the existing player to "milk" the current investment during its decline - mostly by insufficient maintenance and lack of progressive improvement to maintain the long term utility of the existing facilities. A new player is not faced with such a balancing act.
Some examples of high performance disruption:
- The rise of containerization and the success of the Port of Oakland, California, while the port of San Francisco neglected modernization - perhaps wisely due to its inconvenient location at the end of a peninsula not oriented with the prevailing freight traffic. Rather than attempt to compete in the oceanic freight terminal business the city's resources were directed elsewhere, primarily toward becoming the leading financial center on the west coast, largely through the encouragement of the construction of high rise buildings for office space.
- "Mini mill" scrap feed steel product production facilities in the United States using integrated vertical casting methods feeding rolling mills in a single continuous process to produce specialty products such as reenforcing bar for concrete. This left the existing large steel producers with only the lower value commodity production which could not compete with lower cost production worldwide - largely due to the lower labor costs offshore.
Not all technologies promoted as disruptive technologies have actually prospered as well as their proponents had hoped. However, some of these technologies have only been around for a few years, and their ultimate fate has not yet been determined.
Unresolved examples of technologies promoted as 'disruptive technologies'
- Music downloads and file sharing vs. compact discs
- ebooks vs. paper books
- e-commerce vs. physical shops
- open-source software vs. proprietary software (for example Linux versus Microsoft Windows, although Linux has already largely displaced proprietary Unix)
Failed technologies originally promoted as 'disruptive technologies'
- Betamax
- Laserdiscs
- Cold fusion
- Japanese fifth generation computer systems project
- Virtual reality
- 3G
- WebTV
- 8-track_cartridge
External Links
- The Myth of Disruptive Technologies (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1628049,00.asp)
- Disruptive Technology at c2.com (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DisruptiveTechnology)
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