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These kinds of problems are a product of scale. For companies the size of Paypal, Google, or Twitter, the revenue from their operations is so great that leavin
by bleepblorp 6y ago
These kinds of problems are a product of scale.
For companies the size of Paypal, Google, or Twitter, the revenue from their operations is so great that leaving a few crumbs on the table by not handling corner cases is of no concern.
Smaller companies can't afford to lose (for example) 10% of their business to corner cases. For large monopolies, a 90% solution is more than good enough.
- szhu 6y agoYes, large companies have solved their own money-making problems of scale by becoming so large that problems that we find important as a society become ignorable for their bottom line. That doesn't mean that they've solved the problems of scale that we care about as a society.
- eru 6y agoGoogle does care about 10%. But problems that are absolutely pretty big, might still only be 0.01% for Google.