Quote of the Day: Steven Frank

Steven Frank gets the quote of the day

People don’t want FEATURES. They’ll tell you they do until they’re blue in the face. But what they actually want is ease-of-use, and solutions to real-world problems

Bonus quote:

A 34-company committee couldn’t create a successful ham sandwich, much less a mobile application suite. It’s going to be some half-baked turd

It’s about the GPhone, nee “Android” — but the quotes are highly relevant to all kinds of engineering design of both software and hardware.

[p.s. I’m not echoing this because I think it might be true about Android. I don’t know what to think about Android. But the quotes in the context of creating software products are absolutely correct]