When will PDFs be over?

[RFisher]

On the other hand, how much time, energy, and money is wasted each year developing things that some visionary thinks are "where we could/should be", but that in fact nobody really needs?

I know. I’ve always been one to approach things from the point of solving a real problem that real people are really having.

That said, however, the company I currently work for, I wouldn’t have joined 10 years ago for that very reason. Yet, out of that grew a product that solves real needs, leads it market, and has record sales each year since it was introduced in 2002.

For every success, there are a number of failures. I think a certain number of failures are just a part of the price for finding those successes.

Your broad brush is really getting annoying. Please stop telling people what their attitudes are. Putting words and opinions in their mouths is rude.

OK. Sorry. Having bet my own livelyhood on eBooks and cross-platform development during my career, I feel like I have hard-won opinions worth sharing when these topics come up. Some of them are colored by the annoyance I’ve had to deal with during that career from people who didn’t put in the research or analysis or have the experience I did. I guess that’s bound to show through sometimes.

I’ll be quiet now, Mr. Moderator.

 

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On the other hand, how much time, energy, and money is wasted each year developing things that some visionary thinks are "where we could/should be", but that in fact nobody really needs?

None. Someone has to try.