You're taking the wrong conclusion, "Fast" is a winning differentiator only when you offer the same feature-set, but faster.

Your example says it, people will go, this is like X (meaning it does/has the same features as X), but faster. And now people will flock from X to your X+faster thing.

Which tells us nothing about if people would also move to a X+more-features, or a X+nicer-ux, or a X+cheaper, etc., without them being any faster than X or even possibly slower.

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emmelaich 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Really not sure about that. People will give up features for speed all the time. See git vs bzr/hg/svn/darcs/monotone,...

	▲	didibus 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hum, personally I've always found git having more features than those, though I don't know them all, at least when git released it distinguished itself by its features mostly, specifically the distributed nature and rebase. And hg/bzr never looked to me like they had more features, more so similar features +/-, so they'd be a good example of git has the same features+faster so it won.

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gherkinnn 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I hate it but it's true. Look at me, my fridge as an integrated tablet that tells me the weather outside. Never mind that it is a lil louder and the doors are creaky. It tells me the weather!

	▲	willvarfar 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		And is your fridge within line of sight of a window? :)