[LINK] "Unforeseeable growth" (iPad)

[Roger Clarke]

At 13:26 +1100 20/1/11, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>Horace Dediu  wrote:
>"I sometimes use the phrase 'unforeseeable growth' to describe the 
>kind of growth that not even the most knowledgeable observers of a 
>market can predict. It's usually an indicator that fundamentally 
>transformational change is taking place.

Latent demand
     **  better-than-competent design
         ** stylish presentation
            **  fashion-driven / dumb-herd / lemming behaviour of GenYs

Confucius, he say 'Multiple exponentiators make for steep curve'.

(Okay, Roger, explain the curve for the fax-machine then).

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