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The entire idea of needing to maintain (develop, improve, update) a product beyond the point of sale is a fairly new one. But not in computers. Even in the 80i
by danieldk 10y ago
The entire idea of needing to maintain (develop, improve, update) a product beyond the point of sale is a fairly new one.
But not in computers. Even in the 80ies, we would buy new version of MS-DOS for our existing hardware.
The difference is that on most normal computers (except Apple), software was/is decoupled from hardware, they have different manufacturers. Software developers want to reach an as large as possible audience, so it is typically not in there interest to support only the latest hardware iteration.
- flukus 10y agoAnd PC manufacturers still screw it up. If you're lucky you'll get 4 updates to a computer spread 6 months apart and delivered by a custom app that is just as likely to crash as it is to update you're system.
- gmac 10y ago... or indeed brick your laptop (as happened to me once with an HP).
- Trundle 10y agoI don't see how your point contradicts with what they said. Selling a new version of MS DOS is not developing/improving/updating a product beyond the point of sale. It's creating a new product to sell, which non-software has been doing forever as well.