Early Adopters

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2. Real-time marketing Unrealized promise • In some respects, these early real-time marketing customer implementations were ahead of their time despite acknowledged revenue realization within the early adopters. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

3. Behavioral targeting Onsite Behavioral Targeting • The early adopters of this technology/philosophy were editorial sites such as HotWired, online advertising with leading online ad servers, retail or other e-commerce website as a technique for increasing the relevance of product offers and promotions on a visitor by visitor basis https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

4. Six Sigma Doctrine • Six Sigma is a registered service mark and trademark of Motorola Inc. As of 2006 Motorola reported over US$17 billion in savings from Six Sigma. Other early adopters of Six Sigma who achieved well-publicized success include Honeywell (previously known as AlliedSignal) and General Electric, where Jack Welch introduced the method. By the late 1990s, about two-thirds of the Fortune 500 organizations had begun Six Sigma initiatives with the aim of reducing costs and improving quality. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

5. JMP (statistical software) History • JMP was developed in the 1980s by John Sall and a team of developers to make use of the graphical user interface introduced by the 1984 Apple Macintosh. It originally stood for “John’s Macintosh Project” and was first released in October 1989. It was used mostly by scientists and engineers for design of experiments (DOE), quality and productivity support (Six Sigma), and reliability modeling. Semiconductor manufacturers were also among JMP’s early adopters. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

6. Ancient technology - Summary • They were early adopters of bronze https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

7. Mobile commerce - History • "Profitability for device vendors and carriers hinges on high-end mobile devices and the accompanying killer applications," said Burchett. Perennial early adopters, such as the youth market, which are the least price sensitive, as well as more open to premium mobile content and applications, must also be a key target for device vendors. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

8. Mobile commerce - Memetic research • It also showed how products take on new life because of the mindset of the young, who tend to be early adopters of any form of social technology services. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

9. Change management - History • The scientific study of hybrid corn seed adoption led to the commonly known groupings of types of people: Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority and Laggards. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

10. Diffusion of innovations • The categories of adopters are: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards (Rogers 1962, p https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

11. Diffusion of innovations - Rate of Adoption • Also, injecting an innovation into a group of individuals who would readily use said technology, and provide positive reactions and benefits for early adopters of an innovation. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

12. Diffusion of innovations - Adopter categories • The categories of adopters are: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards (Rogers 1962, p https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

13. Diffusion of innovations - Adopter categories • Early adopters are typically younger in age, have a higher social status, have more financial lucidity, advanced education, and are more socially forward than late adopters https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

14. Diffusion of innovations - Adopter categories • Early Majority Individuals in this category adopt an innovation after a varying degree of time. This time of adoption is significantly longer than the innovators and early adopters. Early Majority tend to be slower in the adoption process, have above average social status, contact with early adopters, and seldom hold positions of opinion leadership in a system (Rogers 1962 5th ed, p. 283) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

15. Social network - Diffusion of innovations • Diffusion of ideas and innovations studies focus on the spread and use of ideas from one actor to another or one culture and another. This line of research seeks to explain why some become "early adopters" of ideas and innovations, and links social network structure with facilitating or impeding the spread of an innovation. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

16. Evan Williams (entrepreneur) - Medium • On September 25, 2012, Williams and Stone created a publishing platform called Medium (at Medium.com). It was initially available only to early adopters, but was opened to the public in 2013. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

17. Diffusion (business) - Theories • Early adopters – social leaders, popular, educateds; https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

18. Diffusion (business) - Theories • The most difficult step is making the transition between visionaries (early adopters) and pragmatists (early majority) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

19. Google+ - User base • Early adopters of Google+ in mid-2011 were mostly male (71.24%), and the dominant age bracket (35%) was between 25 and 34.An August 2011 survey estimated that 13% of U.S. adults have joined Google+; it was projected to have 22% of U.S. adults in a year. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

20. Linux distribution - History • Users were attracted to Linux distributions as alternatives to the DOS and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems on the PC, Mac OS on the Apple Macintosh, and proprietary versions of Unix. Most early adopters were familiar with Unix from work or school. They embraced Linux for its stability, low (if any) cost, and availability of the source code for most or all of the software included. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

21. LiveJournal - Features • Currently LiveJournal has five account levels: basic (comprising approximately 95% of the network); plus (sponsored with more advertising); "early adopters" who were registered prior to 14 September 2000; paid and permanent https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

22. Service-oriented architecture - Challenges • Product stacks continue to evolve as early adopters test the development and runtime products with real-world problems. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

23. Unicode - Operating systems • Early adopters tended to use UCS-2 and later moved to UTF-16 (as this was the least disruptive way to add support for non-BMP characters) https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

24. GEnie - Notable users • Many well-known personalities were early adopters of the online medium, and were a prominent presence on GEnie, either active in one of its RoundTables, or frequent public participants in GEnie’s CB Chat. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

25. Hype cycle - Five phases • Trough of Disillusionment: Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

26. History of technology - Ancient technology • These civilisations were early adopters of bronze technologies which they used for tools, weapons and monumental statuary https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

27. Optimum HDTV viewing distance - Optimum ranges • Early adopters of HDTV were typically videophiles, the technically adventurous and the sports enthusiast looking to have the ultimate viewing experience https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

28. Technology adoption lifecycle • The process of adoption over time is typically illustrated as a classical normal distribution or "bell curve." The model indicates that the first group of people to use a new product is called "innovators," followed by "early adopters." Next come the early and late majority, and the last group to eventually adopt a product are called "laggards." https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

29. Technology adoption lifecycle • early adopters – younger, more educated, tended to be community leaders, less prosperous https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

30. Technology adoption lifecycle - Adaptations of the model • In his book Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore proposes a variation of the original lifecycle. He suggests that for discontinuous or disruptive innovations, there is a gap or chasm between the first two adopter groups (innovators/early adopters), and the early majority. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

31. Online diary - Early history • The end of 1997 is generally considered the cut-off date for early adopters. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

32. Early adopter - History • Early adopters as shown in the Rogers' bell curve https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

33. Marketing operations • Marketing Operations is a relatively new discipline within the Corporate Marketing function. Its existence was first recognized 15 years ago by research firms such as IDC and SiriusDecisions. Early adopters were high tech companies such as Cisco Systems, Symantec, and Adobe. Today, hundreds of companies across a variety of industries staff a Marketing Operations role within the Corporate Marketing function. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

34. Product lifecycle - Stages • "There are five different product adoption groups during the product's life cycle 1.Innovators-well-informed customers who are able to try unproven product 2.Early adopters-usually educated opinion leaders 3.Early majority-careful consumers, who tend to avoid risk 4.Late majority-somewhat skeptical customers 5.Laggards-those who avoid change The rate of adoption depends on many factors and correlated with the product life cycle." https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

35. Mac OS X Public Beta • The Mac OS X Public Beta (internally codenamed "Kodiak") was an early beta version of Apple Computer's Mac OS X Operating System Cheetah. It was released to the public on September 13, 2000 for US$29.95. It allowed software developers and early adopters to test a preview of the upcoming Operating System and develop software for the forthcoming Operating System before its final release. The US version had a build number of 1H39 and the international version had build number 2E14. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

36. Macintosh II - History • Because Color QuickDraw was included in the Mac II's ROM, earlier Macintoshes could not be upgraded to display color, and many early adopters felt betrayed by Apple https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

37. Voicemail - VMX • The impressive list of early adopters started the ball rolling on corporate voice-mail https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

38. Solidoodle - Solidoodle 1 • The Solidoodle 1 was discontinued from the Solidoodle online store as of the release of the Solidoodle 2 in 2012. Because of an early program to provide inexpensive upgrades from the Solidoodle 1 to the Solidoodle 2 for early adopters, few Solidoodle 1's remain in the field, and the printer has become a bit of a rarity in 3D Printing collections. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

39. 300-page iPhone bill - Background • After a month's time, as early adopters started receiving their first monthly bills, stories of unusually large and expensive iPhone bills began to circulate https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

40. IPhone (first generation) - Post-release • After receiving hundreds of emails...upset about the price drop, Apple gave store credit to early adopters. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

41. HTC Dream - Critical reception • Engadget felt that the Dream isn't going to blow anyone's mind right out of the gate due to its hardware, but that the Android platform as a whole held its own against its competitors, and that early adopters of Android through the G1 were buying into one of the most exciting developments in the mobile world in recent memory https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

42. Online pass - Usage • 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling defended the use of an online pass to unlock the seven-part bonus quest House of Valor on the single-player Role-playing video game|RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (which was published by EA), by arguing that it was actually day one DLC intended to reward early adopters https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

43. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer - History • Some sources claim that 3DO was priced at $699, far above competing game systems and aimed at high-end users and early adopters https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

44. Electronic waste - Consumer awareness efforts • Many Comedy Central viewers are early adopters of new electronics, and produce a commensurate amount of waste that can be directed towards recycling efforts https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

45. Philips CD-i - TeleCD-i and CD-MATICS • Dutch grocery chain Albert Heijn and mail-order giant were early adopters and introduced award-winning TeleCD-i applications for their home-shopping and home-delivery services https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

46. History of video game consoles (fifth generation) - Results of the fifth generation • In addition, the initially high suggested retail price of the console may have driven potential customers away, and some early adopters of the system who had paid the initial cost may have been angered by Nintendo's decision to reduce the cost of the system US$50 six months after its release https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

47. Google Voice - No international texting service • Although early adopters found they were able to send texts to international mobile numbers, this feature was never officially supported and was blocked as of June 2010. Currently an attempt to text an international number (outside of the USA or Canada) will result in a 'destination not supported' error message, though international text messages can still be received. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

48. Opera (web browser) - Opera Developer and Opera Next • 'Opera Developer' allows early testing of new features, mainly targeting developers, extension creators, and early adopters. Opera Developer is not intended for everyday browsing as it is unstable and is prone to failure or crashing, but enables advanced users to try out new features still under development, without affecting their normal installation of the browser. New versions are released frequently, generally a few times a week. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

49. Motorola Xoom - Accessories • Many early adopters to the Xoom tablet were upset that the upgrade will not be available more than 6 months after Xoom's debut. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html

50. Motorola Xoom - Reviews • The Xoom's initial pricing attracted criticism since it was more expensive than its equivalent iPad 2 model. Both Engadget and PC World cited the price as a drawback, and CNET said that with the launch pricing, the Xoom's appeal will be limited to early adopters and Android loyalists. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-early-adopters-toolkit.html