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Agree. "I was just following a successful model" is not the right way to approach engineering, without understanding the trade-offs and it seems that step was m

• yellowapple 6y ago
  Indeed, "I was just following a successful model" is exactly why software seems to have progressively gotten worse over the years. "Google does it and therefore I should, too!" No, you should maybe - just maybe - consider, you know, talking to your users and asking them what they want for once, and actually listening when they tell you. And this applies outside of software, too. Apple dropped the headphone jack, so guess what every other phone manufacturer wants to do? Samsung shoved ads into its smart TVs, so guess what every other TV manufacturer wants to do? So much for product differentiation.