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It's as though there is a life cycle of an applications development. Early the application is sleek, perhaps not feature rich however instead simple, concise.
by mildchalupa 4y ago
It's as though there is a life cycle of an applications development.
Early the application is sleek, perhaps not feature rich however instead simple, concise. Either through scope creep, changed ownership or continuous addition of features the application becomes bloated. This could also be the stage of commercialization by way of adds. Finally the application dies as users move onward.
This seems to be fairly common and it seems that as these applications and companies rise and fall that they each bring there own flavor to the mix.
Google maps was concise in 2012, today the app requires a greater number of user inputs to enter a destination for example
- bee_rider 4y agoThis is amplified for chat programs. They are not really all that technically interesting anymore. They are just "good" at first while they are trying to acquire new users, and providing services for free to so. Simple and light, because there's no need to add gimmicky features to attract new users -- Free is free, and anyway the competition has recently become awful and bloated in an attempt to figure out what the magic feature is that will justify their aggressive monetization scheme. Eventually good chat program runs out of runway, gets acquired (wow look at that userbase!) or needs to monetize on their own, and becomes the bad chat program. And the cycle continues.