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>it should be about making things easy, small, and FAST for the user. If that would be true people would be using IRC, not Slack or Teams. Users don't care and

• erikbye 6y ago
  I am not sure most users would agree with your assessment that IRC is easy. To many it is arcane. If you created two Telegram alternatives, that was identical except for performance, would users not choose to use the most performant one? Statistics like these (I just found at random, but there are many like it available) demonstrates that your average user do in fact care a lot about performance: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/google-53-of-mobile-users-abandon-sites-that-take-over-3-seconds-to-load/426070/ https://www.marketingdive.com/news/google-53-of-mobile-users...
  • WarChortle 6y ago
    In a perfect world yes they would, but how many times has the better tech died in our history. Its too many to count. If I wrote the perfect chat app tomorrow, I'm talking universally loved by anyone who uses it. I'm not guaranteed to succeed. If someones whole family is on iMessage and they are happy they aren't going to be able to get them to switch. So they couldn't use my app if they wanted too. Thus they stay with the "inferior" product. Average people aren't interested in the latest greatest. They just want it to work and as long as it does, they don't care about shortcomings that don't affect them. IE app size, speed(as long as its good enough)