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Imagine if they spent that money on, you know, making a better product.
by andybak 3y ago
Imagine if they spent that money on, you know, making a better product.
- snarf21 3y agoBut lobbying has such better ROI!! .. We also need lawys from the federal level that all these "known" things must be pushed to the IRS and the state and local use that as their source of information .. Then this software just needs to deal with federal deductions that aren't digital or optional like charity .. We have such a dumb system
- asah 3y agoAlas, free would still win enough marketshare for it to make sense to spend on lobbyists to delay this. :-(
- stetrain 3y agoThey seem to spend all of their money adding fake slow progress bars that advertise their premium version to you.
- lIl-IIIl 3y agoThey would have a better product, but they'd be out of business since without lobbying against it, the government product would actually be built.
- jfengel 3y agoThe product is fine. It doesn't really need radical improvements. That money should have been returned to shareholders. What it needs is to not exist. The product does a fine job of doing an unnecessary thing. For the vast majority of users it should be a tax bill or refund check that arrives with no user intervention at all. The remaining use cases should be handled differently -- perhaps by a professional. That professional may themselves want such software, but it's likely a different interaction than software also aimed at users with much simpler use cases.