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Seems to me all big software houses are affected of this in their long standing products. You start a new thing and come up with a good name. 15 years with 17 p
by m_mueller 10y ago
Seems to me all big software houses are affected of this in their long standing products. You start a new thing and come up with a good name. 15 years with 17 product cycles down the line and you have a whole forest of names that have some relation to this thing.
See also:
iTunes (OSX), iTunes (iOS), "Music" (iOS), Apple Music, iTunes Match, Genius and the iCloud Music tab. Podcasts and videos are also all in there somewhere, know what dear user, you figure it out k?
- rdtsc 10y agoThey brought in very highly paid, smart engineers. Which have periodic performance reviews. If they don't we "we designed and implemnted X, Y, Z awesome new abstractions / features" everyone in the room bosses, employees, higher ups, marking it going to feel let down. So, we have ever more features. "Say, Steve, what have you been doing last year?" - "Welp, just making sure things work, fixed some bugs, documentation, took customer calls. The product essentially works, people love it". "Wait, so we haven't shipped any new features, hmm, ok...". vs the response of "We implemented fizz, bar, quux features. We tore down old zig and added zag instead. It is really the same as old zig, but now look green and re-written with latest framework we saw in HN headlines". "Oh great, you get a promotion and a raise". I am being a bit silly, but it is only half-joking, it is how software industry often works.