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I think it's useful to keep in mind that the ideal number of platforms for a product to support is 1. Every additional platform makes it more difficult to ship
by crabasa 11y ago
I think it's useful to keep in mind that the ideal number of platforms for a product to support is 1. Every additional platform makes it more difficult to ship new features and more expensive to maintain/support. Applications like Chrome ultimately make decisions about which platform they will support through the lens of:
1. number of users
2. PR (i.e. Linux support)
- bad_user 11y agoThat's the ideal for the provider, not the consumer. Nobody said that doing business is easy.
- chipperyman573 11y agoThat's what he's saying. It's why number of users (something irrelevant to other users) is important.
- crabasa 11y agoSure, but products don't just appear out of thin air. Companies build product to drive business goals. Once upon a time support for Windows XP was critical to the success of the product. That is no longer the case. Hence they are removing support for XP. That's simply how business works.