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Always the same thing: companies optimise for profit. Why do websites suck? Because companies don't make more money by making decent websites. Why do mobile ap
by palata 8mo ago
Always the same thing: companies optimise for profit.
Why do websites suck? Because companies don't make more money by making decent websites. Why do mobile apps lag on your 4 years old phone? Because 95% of people have a newer phone, so the company doesn't care about you: you will buy a new phone soon anyway.
We are not chasing fast hardware, we are chasing profit.
- taskset 8mo agoI agree, that's kind of my point - the COMPANIES are chasing profit and trying to interest us in the latest and greatest. Meanwhile there's an old Windows XP laptop in the closet that'd thrive with a Linux OS for programming, bare-metal tasks, etc.