Yesterday I responded to a blog about the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. In it, Mike Stokes posits that there is no longer a "Chasm" between Early Adopters and Pragmatists, but instead the "Chasm" exists between Pragmatists and Conservatives.
I completely understand how Mike (and many others for that matter) could reach that conclusion. After all, this is a time where consumers are adopting technology en masse. But rather than saying that more and more consumers are to the left of the Chasm, I posit that lots of technologies introduced into the market today are introduced not in the Early Market, but instead as whole products into the Mainstream Market of pragmatists. Hence, there is no Chasm to cross. Want to read the blog plus my response? It's her ...