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I feel like I had a better time downloading Windows programs off of TUCOWS in 2000 than the App Store in 2020. I don't know exactly how the incentives have alig
by underwater 6y ago
I feel like I had a better time downloading Windows programs off of TUCOWS in 2000 than the App Store in 2020. I don't know exactly how the incentives have aligned, but the modern app stores are dominated by ad-ridden, manipulative, rubbish.
- jart 6y ago2000 was the pinnacle of Windows' golden age. iPhone golden age was probably 2007 to 2010. I was there. Nothing better than star products in their growth phase. Unfortunately MBAs are taught a self-fulfilling prophecy that what invariably follows in a product's lifecycle is decline. So once it hits market saturation, they immediately pivot their strategy towards squeezing the most value out of a community as its members are willing to tolerate. As it turns out, 3.8 billion smartphone users are willing to tolerate a lot.
- quicklime 6y agoI was there too. In the year 2000 most Windows users weren't running an NT version of Windows. The web browser that came with the OS enabled constant popup ads, making it unusable. You were in theory supposed to "defragment" your hard disk periodically - this was purely theoretical because everyone had to reformat their hard drives wholesale before fragmentation became a problem, so that they could get rid of all the accumulated malware. Some golden age.
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