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> Software was never about making users happy, it was about tricking users, manipulating them into giving you either their money or their time Calm down a bit
by twtw 8y ago
> Software was never about making users happy, it was about tricking users, manipulating them into giving you either their money or their time
Calm down a bit with your generalities. If you sell the software (or the platform it runs on), there is no manipulation or trickery involved. It's only the "vast majority" if you look at freeware/ad-based.
- sdegutis 8y agoYou're right. I deleted that part of my comment. It was more ranty than I prefer to be. And I had things like Google and Facebook in mind, and 99% of the free games on the App Store or web.