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To reiterate what I've said before: I hope that after a last gasp of pseudo-innovation/rewrites-for-marketings-sake that the tech industry can figure out how to
by carsongross 10y ago
To reiterate what I've said before: I hope that after a last gasp of pseudo-innovation/rewrites-for-marketings-sake that the tech industry can figure out how to become a more incremental, polish and improve culture, more akin to craftsmen than randian heros.
It goes to the very heart of the industry, though: our self conception, so it would be a very hard transition.
- coldtea 10y agoFirst, this was not about marketing (wasn't even advertised or meant to be known): it is about using a new common lib for PDF between iOS and macOS. Second, the rampant rewrites are as much an issue in FOSS projects as they are in the industry (and in fact Microsoft for one, besides introducing the occasional new API has been careful with backwards compatibility to the point of paranoia).
- carsongross 10y agoAgree entirely: it is rampant across the entire industry. Look at Angular2. (But then, on the other hand, look at VIM or Emacs. Hmmm.) Again, I think it is a deep problem, involving the self conception of the tech world (not only the marketing departments, although there is mixes with self interest.)
- coldtea 10y agoIt's also in the physical world, and there it stems from companies wanting to sell disposable crap instead of long lasting products and form factors, so they have more repeat sales.
- dasil003 10y agoThe industry is not monolithic, there will always be the "move fast and break things" mentality, and there will always be calls for quality and backwards compatibility. Apple has traditionally been pretty good in the quality department, but they have never given a rat's ass about backwards compatibility. As they move forward with the whole iOS-is-the-future vision and OS X goes into legacy mode I shudder to think how bad things will get.