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[sarge_5150]

Kawasaki-san writes "An innovator doesn't worry about shipping an innovative product with elements of crappiness if it's truly innovative" and "I'm saying it's okay to ship crap--I'm not saying that it's okay to stay crappy".

I really, really disagree. No company should ever ship crap. Maybe the product has an incomplete feature set (e.g., only

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[lovelyangel]

I think by saying "elements of crappiness" and by giving the examples he did, Kawasaki makes a distinction between a good product with (a few) crappy elements -- and a crappy product. And having the high standards that he and we do, his idea of crappy execution is probably still higher than what some companies *cough* Microsoft *cough* consider production gold.

A single floppy drive on the first 128K Mac was probably crappy, but we were too WOWED by the system to be put off by the limitation. Or at least we gave Apple some latitude with the issue -- until later, anyway.