[vhew]

I disagree. I’m sure Apple had plenty of user input in the prototype and test phase.. I’m guessing they a big team of engineers building the thing who were the perfect target audience, and probably had lots more to try it too. The idea that you should build an awesome product in isolation and launch it perfectly seems like very bad advice...

[iosnoob]

We're meant to be the new product guys and come up with the new ideas, asking users to come up with new product suggestions is a recipe for a product that does a lot and not well.

In a past web forum I used to admin the users would ask for a million different things and if we implemented them all it would have been chaos.

At the end of the day someone has to have a creaive vision and see it executed, even if it only does one thing.. but does it really well..