[Adium-devl] We have competition, hurray!

[Chris Forsythe]

On Oct 7, 2007, at 6:42 PM, bgannin wrote:

>
> On Oct 7, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>
>> but the point is that we don't have
>> competition right now.
>>
>> Chris
>
> In all fairness, this is really just an act of hubris. Competition  
> exists in the form of several other clients on this and other  
> platforms as well as competition against our own designs and future  
> management. Why don't we tone back the rhetoric and get back to  
> making Adium even better?
>

Wrong. Name these competitors? What product out there involves the  
community by providing theming capabilities, and is the leading (i.e.  
only in the minds of the users) multiprotocol app on the platform?  
I'd suggest you take a read of "22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" by Al  
Ries and Jack Trout, they explain this pretty well.

Of course we could always just continue this conversation and let it  
degrade into nothing worthwhile, or we could leave it as this since I  
was simply responding to conjecture to a very small point I was  
making while making the bigger point that we have actual competition  
now, or soon.

Chris
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