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by k__ 2099 days ago
This.

People will buy what they understand.

Who can blame them? Your real bleeding edge tech company is outnumbered by snake oil companies 1:1000.

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That's bull. People bought the iPhone in spite of 'it has no physical keyboard', 'it has no copy paste', 'there's no place to put a stylus', et cetera. If people don't understand the product, you need to sell it in a way that they do understand. That's why marketing is still an expertise and not a side gig in most successful companies.
The iPhone wasn't successful because it was "bleeding-edge tech", it was successful because it was a bold and innovative remix of existing technology.