Last night, was talking to a friend about the PS3 and PSP and he mentioned a BBC post talking about the upcoming "console" wars between Playstation, XBox and Nintendo. He said they had proposed question along the lines of "Which one will be the best?" to which all those posturing fools who have bought into a brand start pushing and shoving (about something not even here yet!). I made the point that the debate was pointless, as its more about "what is the best to meet my needs?" I've had the same debate about console vs PC (PC diehards argue wouldn't touch a console, whilst I say just get both as different hardware meets different requirements I may have).
Interestingly, Chris at Lockergnome published this today which makes a similar point, this time about the OS debate. I found the definition of best to be particularly interesting from a business perspective, and the recognition of "the right software for the right user at the right time" interesting from the analyst view. As he concludes, the question "What's the best automobile?" is nonsense - really, the question is "What is the right automobile for you, at this point of time in your life". The point of this post - know your users requirements. Oh, and to consider the defintion of "best" from time to time to!
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