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> Bloat is kind of a lot of businesses business. One person's bloat is another person's critical feature. The vast majority of people use a small percentage of
by tstrimple 4y ago
> Bloat is kind of a lot of businesses business.
One person's bloat is another person's critical feature. The vast majority of people use a small percentage of Microsoft Excel features, but the feature use is such that you cannot replace Excel without supporting all this esoteric stuff some small percent of users are leveraging. Excel's "bloat" gives it a competitive edge over the competition and makes it difficult to replace because of all of these edge cases in use.
- andreareina 4y ago"People use 20% of Excel's features, bit it's a different 20% for everybody." Apologies to whoever I ripped that off from, I'm not finding the quote anymore.
- djkivi 4y agoI think it was Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv-bloatware-and-the-8020-myth/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...