Is it time for Australia to shift its focus?

Home Analysis & Insights By David Kermode Published:  26 January, 2026 David Kermode takes the temperature of the Australian wine market to determine whether its mass-market appeal still holds true or if it’s time to prioritise …
#wine #Australianwine #Australia #exports #massmarket #oversupply #premiumisation #price #volume #Wine #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2486934/is-it-time-for-australia-to-shift-its-focus/

Is it time for Australia to shift its focus?

Home Analysis & Insights By David Kermode Published:  26 January, 2026 David Kermode takes the temperature of the Australian wine market to determine whether its mass-market appeal still holds true or if i…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Australianwine #Australia #exports #massmarket #oversupply #premiumisation #price #volume #Wine #WinefromAustralia #WineofAustralia
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2486934/is-it-time-for-australia-to-shift-its-focus/

Mass-market paperbacks are going away?!  (first segment in the video)

They are being replaced with e-books or their more expensive trade paperback jcousins.

#ebooks #MassMarket #Trade #books #MassMarketPaperbacks #ReaderLink #DanielGreene

@bookstodon

https://youtu.be/z6EqhaBCAK4?si=Jl8Whk5dIUvfM355

Microcomputers – The Second Wave: Toward a Mass Market

https://technicshistory.com/2025/10/03/microcomputers-the-second-wave-towards-a-mass-market/

#HackerNews #Microcomputers #SecondWave #MassMarket #TechnologyHistory #Innovation

Google Android almost got the banking app (last used 3 days ago) uninstalled to make space for a mandatory update of #Whatsapp.

I've got the #MassMarket blues.
My #UX counts for less than a pixel on a 8K display.
#ConsumingIn2025 #IHateIT

Why do stores always discontinue the products we like?

Oh, oh, I know this one.

Stores and the brands that supply them have no clue what you or I like. Instead, they are stuck in an optimisation feedback loop that works like this:

This results in inoffensive and often bland mass-market products that suit all tastes. Or rather, offend no tastes.

If you took all the people who regularly buy a product and organise them by the time they start using it, you would get a bell curve. the bigger the area under the curve, the more people it represents. Something like this:

Most products follow this distribution. As do ideas. Big stores and brands are trying to optimise for the middle mass-market section because that’s where most of the people are (and, thus, the most cash). All the flavourful, weird, exciting, cool stuff happens before the mass-market uptake.

For most stuff, the green and blue section of the graph (trailblazers and early adopters) is all the people that will like that thing. That’s why the cool, niche stuff is so interesting, spicey, or cool. It is something that a few people will love.

The stores and the big brands would rather search for stuff most people will be mostly okay with. Which means boring, vanilla, and unexciting. They want risk-free make-lots-and-sell-it stuff. The good stuff we like rarely appeals to the mass-market.

This is why it is important to support small and indie creators making stuff you love. They will probably never get mass market support. But if enough of us weirdos love it, that’s probably just fine.

This post was in reply to, “How is it that stores always seem to discontinue the products we like?” which itself was a reply to “What is something that you still cannot explain?“.

#bellCurve #earlyAdopters #MassMarket #niche

@gulovsen As I said before already, the #AppleVisionPro or any #WearableComputer of that kind can't become a #MassMarket success for all the reasons starting from the #price over being an #Apple product aka. hamfisted into uselessness and also lacking not just reasons and #applications to use it outside of the spechal nieche-cases that need #AugmentedReality and #EyeTracking.

• There, it's clumsy development tools and limitations are an acceptable exchange for being dozens of times cheaper, lighter and less cumbersome to setup at the user level than competing options. Just like the #ProDisplayXDR's price tag was only insulting to the people that never were the target audience to begin with (tho not having a real, stable and hard-fixed #VESA-Mount is an unforgiving sin given that they could've easily made that happen instead if a shitty & overpriced adaptor!)...

Personally, I'd consider building myself a #Optigon + #Somatic combo instead because that shit I can at least use with my existing tools and without misplaced trust into a #GAFAM that bows before the "P.R." China of all regimes...