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From: joelonsoftware <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Eddie Kessler describes programming at Napster. Ray Ozzie has
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more on pla
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:28:22 -0000
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URL: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020925.html
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Date: Not supplied
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Eddie Kessler describes programming at Napster[1].
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Ray Ozzie has more on platforms[2]. "Finding the 'right' price point for a
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software platform is critical." To me this sounds like a fancy way of saying,
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"I groove all that stuff about how platforms need to be cheap and ubiquitous,
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but I can't bring myself to do it." The price, Ray says, "must be high enough
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both 1) to maintain a perception of value in the platform, and 2) to create
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significant margins well before ubiquity is assured so that the ecosystem is
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assured of the platform's ultimate viability." What he doesn't mention: if you
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lower the price on the only product you're selling, you have a revenue hit,
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which will not make your investors happy, and you may run out of money and have
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to close. But that must be what he's thinking.
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[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/WorstProjectEver.html
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[2] http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2002/09/24/softwarePlatformDynamics.html
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