Talk:Early adopter/Archives/2013

Original research
Additional support? Are you kidding? What company provides EOs with additional support? Codik (talk) 23:09, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Illustration
User:SvenAERTS suggests using this illustration: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Plc.gif. Can anyone create a fully translated illustration? --Busy Stubber (talk) 22:30, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Nations
Entire nations might be seen as early adopters. Japan for example, going overboard with gadget obsession, but missing the chance to lead the bigger trends, like the information age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.65.241 (talk) 06:52, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

What are other types of customers called?
I know that there is a whole gamut. The article should link to another article describing the full range. Thanks. Maikel (talk) 12:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

The Everett Rogers Diffusion of innovations theory - for any given product category, there are five categories of product adopters:

* Innovators – venturesome, educated, multiple info sources; * Early adopters – social leaders, popular, educated; * Early majority – deliberate, many informal social contacts; * Late majority – skeptical, traditional, lower socio-economic status; * Laggards – neighbours and friends are main info sources, fear of debt.

Vechs (talk) 10:13, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Early Adopter tax
The news that the iPhone would be a staggering $200 less—that’s a full one-third less than before, if you’re keeping track—has sent many iPhone fans into a frenzy. A lot of people are feeling ripped off right now, because they paid what I call the Early Adopter Tax. http://www.macworld.com/article/59872/2007/09/iphoneprice.html There is a by whom reference to the usage of early adopter tax in the article. This is an example of a journalist using it as the article implies it is used. 86.44.79.87 (talk) 14:48, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion
I'm with ^this^ guy. I think this concept could be expanded to a number of other areas, if anyone was interested in trying to find the sources for citing them, namely:


 * Friends (Will anyone befriend the 'new kid' in school?)
 * Dating (She's with George Clooney? That certainly affords her a new cachet!)
 * Fashion trends (The popular kids are wearing 'Cool Kid Clothes', so we should too!)
 * Musicians (Have you heard this great new band?)
 * Television shows ('Turd Show' was cancelled after being unable to gain viewership in its season premier.)
 * Memes (LOL Cats, anyone?)
 * Ideals (Women's suffrage, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage)
 * Politicians (Think straw polls, image consultants and public perception.)
 * Basically anything that requires the attainment of a certain critical mass of subscribers to maintain viability

There is a risk in either forfeiting the cost of the early adopter tax (in terms of time, money, and/or energy) and/or bruised reputation, but there's also the possible reward of swag that comes with being presciently in on the ground floor of something awesome, and perhaps other benefits of early access to a product or service. If you build it, they will come, unless they don't, so when all else fails, just use celebrity endorsement. I also don't think it has to involve someone pushing something on someone else. It could be that something spontaneously attains a mass following and the early adopters are only early adopters in retrospect. 71.236.136.184 (talk) 04:08, 19 July 2013 (UTC)