Maybe some of the problems today are because of the ability to fix code after release much more easily. If you wanted to ship something on a set of floppies or

Maybe some of the problems today are because of the ability to fix code after release much more easily. If you wanted to ship something on a set of floppies or a CD you had to be pretty confident it worked unless you wanted to deal with a costly patching process. Now you can push a hot fix or day 1 patch almost immediately, and in the case of some software like games, actually prevent people from using the old version, leading to software being released that has known issues. Obviously with web based applications the fix deployment is completely transparent to the users, making the cost of deploying a fix almost zero.