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>I am not going to waste your time or mine cataloging and complaining about the many, many bad practices, user-hostile design decisions, mind-boggling complex w
by tehnub 4y ago
>I am not going to waste your time or mine cataloging and complaining about the many, many bad practices, user-hostile design decisions, mind-boggling complex workflows, and poor development process that afflict Japanese software.
>If you want details and debate about exactly how Japanese software falls short, or if you just in the mood for some good old-fashioned venting about being forced to use it, check out Reddit or maybe Hacker News. This topic comes up pretty often there.
>No, for the sake of this podcast I’m going to assume that we are all in agreement that on average, Japanese software. is just … awful.
What are some examples of Japanese software? I'm not aware of any Japanese software I use besides a few random apps from the App Store, all of which seem fine to me. "Japanese Software is awful" is a common topic on Hacker News?
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- courgette 4y agoI worked for a startup that was based on the fact ( amongst other ) that Sony was making a good hardware product, but terrible software for it. Mostly the UI, but also weird restrictions on the input / output while it was a 20k professional pieces of hardware in a highly normalized market. ( easy to see that Dolby was NOT restricting it for instance ) We had a good run. Thanks Sony. Detail : the setup of that industry made it that Sony and other HAD to let some api open for us insects. That was our opening.
- Klonoar 4y agoThere's a significant amount of JP software that you would not encounter if you don't live there. e.g, quite a number of banking apps