Backpack Upgrade - Maybe Not So Out of Focus |
| Published: February 20, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Tags: trends |
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Last week we wrote a piece questioning whether perhaps 37Signals had lost focus with the upgrades to their popular Backpack organizational tool. We argued that the changes were morphing Backpack from a simple organizational tool into a robust intranet system that put it on a collision course with Basecamp, the company's groupware application. Many commenters on the 37Signals blog felt the same way, though most on this blog seemed to disagree. Ultimately, we decided that "whether [37Signals has] fallen prey to feature creep will really be measured by the response of their users." The new Backpack went live yesterday, and today 37Signals took the unorthodox (for them) step of releasing first day sales figures on their blog. "It was the best day in Backpack's history," writes founder Jason Fried. So far, so good. While we don't know how that stacks up to the average Backpack sales day, nor how sales of Backpack will effect future sales of Basecamp, it doesn't really matter -- [ Full article ] |
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