{"id":1055,"date":"2005-02-16T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T10:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2005-02-16T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2005-02-16T10:20:59","slug":"horace_selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Horace &#038; Selling Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.scripting.com\/2005\/02\/16#whatHoraceReallyMeans\">published<\/a> an essay today, let&#8217;s call it an essay &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">mini<\/a>&#8221; in keeping with the times, on product development &#038; selling out.  Well worth reading.   <\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s words remind me of past experiences in the large, corporate world.   Product A is created or acquired.   Over time, the things that made Product A useful, interesting and marketable are slowly taken away (juice content (Pepsi Slice), flavors, quantity) while prices go up.   We might refer to this as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000409.php\">MBA<\/a> approach to product development, though that is too harsh.   Perhaps it is more of a corporate vs entrepreneur approach.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, it happens all too often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave published an essay today, let&#8217;s call it an essay &#8220;mini&#8221; in keeping with the times, on product development &#038; selling out. Well worth reading. Dave&#8217;s words remind me of past experiences in the large, corporate world. Product A is created or acquired. Over time, the things that made Product A useful, interesting and marketable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}