
{"id":592,"date":"2007-04-05T13:54:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-04-05T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T20:54:58","slug":"it-is-not-your-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/05\/it-is-not-your-software\/","title":{"rendered":"It is not YOUR software&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I admit this is not really an emerging technology post (more of an effect of it?)&hellip; the linked article still something everyone who creates &ldquo;software&rdquo; should read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Six out of eight think something that&rsquo;s harder to use but gives you better control is a good trade-off; only one out of eight of the general populace thinks that&rsquo;s a good trade-off. Normal people do not drive stick shifts,&rdquo; Platt said emphatically. &ldquo;Why? Because they don&rsquo;t care about the driving process in and of itself. It&rsquo;s a means to an end. They don&rsquo;t want to drive somewhere; they want to be somewhere.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You are in IT and think this doesn&rsquo;t apply to you&hellip; think again. Even if you just deploy some vendor&rsquo;s software &ldquo;out of the box&rdquo; to your customer it is still your software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftponline.com\/channels\/arch\/2007_04\/todonnell\/\" title=\"Article\">http:\/\/www.ftponline.com\/channels\/arch\/2007_04\/todonnell\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I admit this is not really an emerging technology post (more of an effect of it?)&hellip; the linked article still something everyone who creates &ldquo;software&rdquo; should read. &ldquo;Six out of eight think something that&rsquo;s harder to use but gives you better control is a good trade-off; only one out of eight of the general&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/05\/it-is-not-your-software\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It is not YOUR software&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}