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Hey, you know what's a radical new idea? Shipping production-quality software when you make a new release! Just imagine for a sec... company releases a new prod
by martythemaniak 18y ago
Hey, you know what's a radical new idea? Shipping production-quality software when you make a new release! Just imagine for a sec... company releases a new product and instead of a POS beta-quality software, you get a decently-working software.
I have OS 2.0 right now and yes, despite what Apple may say it IS beta software and it is embarrassingly slow and laggy.
- yan 18y agoThe other extreme is to ship production-quality software and call it beta. (Ahem.. gmail)
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoI'd rather see more of Google's strategy. At least it actually works...
- gcv 18y agoWhatever happened to "release early, release often?" Or does that only apply to startups?
- elq 18y agohrm. I'd personally prefer a phone that actually worked.
- lallysingh 18y agoAgreed. But, it is tough in some markets where it's very difficult to test many of the customer configurations that can mess things up. Like anything on Windows that's sensitive to DLLs. On mac os, there's little excuse. On a hardware platform you built yourself, and have full control over, there isn't an excuse. Just failure.
- palish 18y agoIt's hardly a failure. Just because the phone has bugs doesn't mean it isn't useful. It's very handy to have a mobile phonebook with maps, for example. The reality is that software doesn't have to be bug-free to be successful. That's not to say bugs shouldn't be fixed. However, features are more important than fixing every bug. Perfectionism has claimed the life of more software projects than we know; we just don't hear about the fate of the true failures.