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Debating product, feature, or company

Debating product, feature, or company:

A cool new app or service releases and immediately the debates begin over the magnitude of the offering.  Is it a product, feature, or company?  Within a short time, pundits declare something to be too small, too easy to copy, or too inconsequential to merit the startup label.

The debate over whether something is an app, a feature, or even a whole company goes as far back as most can remember.  I remember having to buy a spelling checker separate from the word processor I used about the same time I had to buy graphing software separate from a spreadsheet.  There were many examples before that and certain many after that.

Following up on this one… and that one.


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