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It's a battle of optimization to cater to the largest audience, so your market share is larger, so economies of scale work better and they earn higher profit -
by loceng 5y ago
It's a battle of optimization to cater to the largest audience, so your market share is larger, so economies of scale work better and they earn higher profit - and arguably at lower design cost as well.
Arguably until users are willing to fund good R&D - and there aren't other unreasonable pressures on the production, and that design isn't perverted by designing to optimize for ad revenues and to capture engagement of a person to unhealthy levels, then it's going to continue to be the status quo.
- jrm4 5y agoAnd to pull the camera back; all those big money words you just used are in no way necessary for people to have a good experience, because software can be free and open. Obviously, we are well past the naive idea of "just making everything FOSS and all will be perfect," but hey, if I'm not the one making money, then from my user point of view, I will be cheering and helping on the "less money" or perhaps even "no money" projects that are threatening to eat your business model.
- CRConrad 5y ago> Obviously, we are well past the naive idea of "just making everything FOSS and all will be perfect," Yup, obviously, since the no-settings dictatorship mindset has crept into FOSS too.