And yet it's still used as a medical fixative. (Anyway, the first superglue was sold in 1958, the first official medical use came about 6 years later.)
"adapt the product to what people are buying and using it for instead of what they hoped people would like it"
But that's not what they're doing. Instead, they think just because a certain group now uses livejournal in a different way than it was originally intended, a big part who is using it for another purpose is "doing it wrong" - that's the general vibe I get from this interview, not just this one sentence.
A business who tells the majority of their userbase to basically get used to it or go fuck themselves because a small minority wants to have their way, no matter what, that's the one that's going do be doomed in the end.
(As a note: I wasn't nearly as serious about my original post as you seem to have taken it.)
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Date: 2012-01-09 12:51 am (UTC)"adapt the product to what people are buying and using it for instead of what they hoped people would like it"
But that's not what they're doing. Instead, they think just because a certain group now uses livejournal in a different way than it was originally intended, a big part who is using it for another purpose is "doing it wrong" - that's the general vibe I get from this interview, not just this one sentence.
A business who tells the majority of their userbase to basically get used to it or go fuck themselves because a small minority wants to have their way, no matter what, that's the one that's going do be doomed in the end.
(As a note: I wasn't nearly as serious about my original post as you seem to have taken it.)