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To me, disliking greedy corporations and bad management isn't very connected to the method of delivery of products. Frequent and often automatic updates just re
by dangus 4y ago
To me, disliking greedy corporations and bad management isn't very connected to the method of delivery of products. Frequent and often automatic updates just represent that delivery method.
In contrast to your bank, my bank's website has added numerous improvements and modernizations that have made it easier, more useful, and less frustrating. Perhaps it's just time to switch banks?
There are plenty examples of badly managed products in the pre-SaaS era. If you bought Windows Me, it shipped as a terrible product and it never got better. As soon as you opened the shrink wrap you had no recourse but to wait for Windows XP to fix those problems.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City featured a bug where saving at the ice cream factory was very likely to corrupt your save. The PS2 had no ability to apply patches or updates to games, so you were just stuck with the software that way forever.
So, you "agreed to purchase it in a certain shape and form" – but just like any other product you never truly know what you get until you made the purchase.
- gspencley 4y agoYou're straw-manning and shifting the goal post. I have no problem with greedy corporations. What I don't like is people changing stuff on me when I didn't opt in to that change. Imagine if someone broke into your house and rearranged all your furniture. That's what it feels like. I don't like not owning my software and not being in control of things I pay for. I don't like not getting to decide if/when I upgrade and what I upgrade to. No one had to upgrade to Windows ME. That's my one and only point. I don't know why you keep trying to shift the conversation back to video games. Video games are a very different type of software from most and I don't play them or have any interest in them. They're completely irrelevant to the conversation as far as I'm concerned.
- dangus 4y agoRespectfully, I'm not straw-manning nor am I shifting any goal posts. Whether or not you agree with my arguments, I believe I am making them as consistently I can and in good faith. I'm using video games are an easy example because it's simple to point to a specific gameplay bug that every player will encounter in those boxed games. Those kinds of experiences aren't as well documented for older productivity software. I understand you don't like video games but you should be able to understand the concept of my argument, for all purposes of our discussion these games can be considered to be generic software. My overarching argument revolves around my belief that the bad things about software revolve around its business model, not from its delivery method in isolation.