Love relationship - Part I

Is in search of perfection is good or not?

I believe the goal is good. But how to approach make a big difference.

I recall one thing my ex-boss taught me why Microsoft is so successful.

1.) They sell junk for a fortune. That allows them to maximize their profit margin.
(Look at how many service pack and “Blue screen of death” we encounter)

2.) When they develop junk, time to market can be much faster.

Then he asks me for a scenario.

“ASIMO, suppose you can develop a bug free product in a year. Should you take a year to do so, or use 20-30% of the time to develop it which can satisfy 50% of the customers? Which method will you choose?”

For me, I will take a year. For him, he will take 20%. Why?

Instead of using 80% of time to perfect the software, he wants to use 80% of time to dominate the market. Before the competitor come up the product, he already started eat up the market. When their product comes, there is no vacancy available. Then starve them to death.

I know one friend who is trying to find a perfect husband. She looks gorgeous that’s why she has “Qualification” to be picky. She is keep looking till most of her friend get marry. She complain her “expiration date” is coming soon, there is no good men nowadays.

~Sigh~, why she didn’t take 80% of her time to complement with the imperfect one instead of wasting this valuable time to search endlessly for the one who has already been taken?