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This reminds me a bit about what was mentioned in the book "good to great". A company, or in this case a product, can do everything at a level a little above garbage, or it can focus on its core competencies and be the best at something.

The more features you add to a product, (in my mind) the worse it becomes.

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I think it depends on the product. There are times that I want a Swiss knife. The office suite is a good Swiss knife for me, I want it to do a bunch of stuff ok, I don't want it to be the best layout tool, or presentation builder, or editor, I just want to be able to do something ok looking fast for a number of varied cases.

There are times when I want the really great at one thing too and I don't want my Trello board to be a social network or so. I think it is more about identity of the product.

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