A callback to the 80's

PandingoPandingo Member Posts: 1,067 ★★★★
edited September 14 in General Discussion
In the 80s ford tried to kill the mustang by changing everything people had come to love about the car. It's huge cult following that dropped millions of dollars on the model. By making it look futuristic and trying to make it more 'streamline' and people just stopped buying the car so they had to make the call to change it back to what people enjoyed. What worked. Or they could have continued and just killed the model altogether and potentially killed the company. Just a fun anecdote. Flashy, annoying, and overly complicated never beats out functional and ease of access.

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  • captain_rogerscaptain_rogers Member Posts: 9,528 ★★★★★
    Well Nokia also decided to stay the same and refused to switch to futuristic technology, and look they are dead too
  • Awesomep12Awesomep12 Member Posts: 1,309 ★★★
    Pandingo said:

    In the 80s ford tried to kill the mustang by changing everything people had come to love about the car. It's huge cult following that dropped millions of dollars on the model. By making it look futuristic and trying to make it more 'streamline' and people just stopped buying the car so they had to make the call to change it back to what people enjoyed. What worked. Or they could have continued and just killed the model altogether and potentially killed the company. Just a fun anecdote. Flashy, annoying, and overly complicated never beats out functional and ease of access.

    *Cough* store ui
  • Awesomep12Awesomep12 Member Posts: 1,309 ★★★
    Awesomep12 said:

    Pandingo said:

    In the 80s ford tried to kill the mustang by changing everything people had come to love about the car. It's huge cult following that dropped millions of dollars on the model. By making it look futuristic and trying to make it more 'streamline' and people just stopped buying the car so they had to make the call to change it back to what people enjoyed. What worked. Or they could have continued and just killed the model altogether and potentially killed the company. Just a fun anecdote. Flashy, annoying, and overly complicated never beats out functional and ease of access.

    *Cough* store ui
    *cough cough* AI
  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 2,948 ★★★★★
    Pandingo said:

    In the 80s ford tried to kill the mustang by changing everything people had come to love about the car. It's huge cult following that dropped millions of dollars on the model. By making it look futuristic and trying to make it more 'streamline' and people just stopped buying the car so they had to make the call to change it back to what people enjoyed. What worked. Or they could have continued and just killed the model altogether and potentially killed the company. Just a fun anecdote. Flashy, annoying, and overly complicated never beats out functional and ease of access.

    And here Ford is today with a Mustang SUV. Finally accepting some things needed to change to keep up with the changing times.
  • SiliyoSiliyo Member Posts: 1,470 ★★★★★
    captain_rogers said:

    Well Nokia also decided to stay the same and refused to switch to futuristic technology, and look they are dead too

    BlackBerry too!
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