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Something I've noticed is that whilst big, glamorous releases tend to be more popular within many companies, evolutionary releases tend to be friendlier toward
by jfoster 5y ago
Something I've noticed is that whilst big, glamorous releases tend to be more popular within many companies, evolutionary releases tend to be friendlier toward users.
Products evolving more gradually doesn't entirely solve the issue you're concerned by, but users don't have to take on the full brunt of massive product changes all at once.
- Scarblac 5y agoBut, it's a car. Not a "product". I want exactly the UI I bought, with perhaps some changes I chose myself. If the UI update is bad and the car is now worth less, you've damaged my property. Edit: apparently the updates are opt-in so it's not quite as bad, but still.
- oblio 5y agoYeah, but do they offer only security updates i.e. LTS? If they don't, you're still screwed.
- neuronic 5y agoThere is a difference between releasing the next Instagram UI update and doing the same to a car. A big part of safe driving is the familiarization of yourself with the vehicle. Who wants to relearn their car interface every 3 months? Who needs Netflix or games on the center console of their daily driver? But yea, I supposes Tesla is betting hard on FSD making attention unnecessary and preemptively deals with driver boredom. Except FSD is no where near trustworthy especially with consideration to other drivers or - Go forbid - if you have family onboard. Just put an 12" iPad Pro into the passenger compartment it doesn't matter at Tesla pricing range anyway, at least you get one high quality machine with your purchase then.
- ljm 5y agoThis seems to be common with B2C products/services. Does your massive redesign piss off some percentage of your consumer-users? Meh, who cares, there are plenty more where that came from. B2B? Not so much, if you care about those 6+ figure renewals afterwards.