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> If the market valued performance more then we would probably see competitive services which optimize for performance, but we generally don't. I believe there
by jamil7 3y ago
> If the market valued performance more then we would probably see competitive services which optimize for performance, but we generally don't.
I believe there is some nuance to this due to the winner-takes-all nature of modern software services. There simply isn't a lot of choice for users or switching is expensive so companies don't do it and employees are forced to suffer through horrible performance.
- BehindBlueEyes 3y agoOr switching happens for 90% of the feature and is called good enough, which results in now having 2 systems to maintain because the old deprecated one actually still has critical edge cases depending on it…