微軟的吃飯傢伙 :Comfortable & Familiar
Posted in Microsoft on May 18th, 2008
如果要問我,微軟之所以維持壟斷性優勢,其成因為何,我會很快地告訴您兩個人性弱點:
- 人傾向於追求最大化的舒適感
- 人傾向於追求最大化的熟悉感
微軟稱不上是利用人性,世上除了紅色警戒的大魔頭尤里外,沒有人能做到。微軟和其他for profit企業一樣,深入瞭解人性,並把價值建立在人性依賴熟悉環境與抗拒改變的基礎之上。(60億人口中,僅有2%像您一樣的精英份子態度積極,擁抱變革,而且會看這類部落格。)
引用NY Times對 Microsoft Windows 加入百元電腦計畫 提到的評論:
Education ministries want low-cost computers to help further education, but many see familiarity with Windows-based computing as a marketable skill that can improve job prospects.
矛盾的是:
“The people who buy the machines are not the children who use them, but government officials in most cases,” said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the nonprofit group. “And those people are much more comfortable with Windows.”
不論在開發中或已開發國家,大部分孩子長大後,都會逐漸往普遍存在的人性弱點靠近。他們不只會習慣用相同的電腦軟體,也會習慣喝可口可樂。Why?
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