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How Music Apps Die - The Design of Finale [video]

• DavidPiper 1y ago
  Hey HN, I know video content is not the norm here, but I had to submit this. Bookended by some semi-related absurdism and surrealist humor, this video is an hour-long (00:04:42 - 01:09:30) breakdown and analysis of music notation app Finale's journey from entrenched industry leader to dead and discontinued 35 years later. It's a great primer on how software dies over time through poor design, management and engineering decisions, and what the slow-motion train wreck actually looks like as a software product collapses under its own weight.
• deleted 1y ago
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