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heatseeker
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heatseeker /n./ [IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to
buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not
quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe). A 1993
example of a heatseeker is someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows
3.0, goes out and buys Windows 3.1 (which offers no worthwhile
benefits unless you have a 386). If all customers were
heatseekers, vast amounts of money could be made by just fixing the
bugs in each release (n) and selling it to them as release (n+1).
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