It doesn’t and the only reason we’ve done it this way is because software distribution at scale had to be on physical medium of one sort or another. Shipping u

It doesn’t and the only reason we’ve done it this way is because software distribution at scale had to be on physical medium of one sort or another. Shipping updates used to mean literally shipping new hardware to be installed. We’ve treated software like a literal thing to meet boxed software business sales expectations. Back in the day people sold things. There are a number of different ways to build and distribute software that achieve the same level of results. We’ve just stuck to using the ones that traditional business models are willing to fund. Apparently curve fitting for ephemeral finance growth is achieving literal economic gains. Or something. The epistemology of economics has diverged from the ontology, become less about material goods, more about information organization which is harder to value given as we say here, we curve away too fast and have to rewrite it, no one knows