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Nobody _wants_ it, but in practice if all cars/TVs/smartphones break every two weeks, what choice do people have? In tech, the era of competing based on qualit
by Nextgrid 2mo ago
Nobody _wants_ it, but in practice if all cars/TVs/smartphones break every two weeks, what choice do people have?
In tech, the era of competing based on quality is long gone. The winning strategy is to get a monopoly/oligopoly and then you can let the quality decay to zero and people will have no choice but to keep paying you money (or to your handful of equally-mediocre competitors).
- torginus 2mo ago> Nobody _wants_ it, but in practice if all cars/TVs/smartphones break every two week. Certainly not true for me. One example is Linux. I've been sticking with Ubuntu LTS, and delaying upgrades for as long as I can get away with for any system that's connected with earning or at least not losing money. For the packages whose versions I care about, I compile them from source/use a PPA, and accept the consequences, but I really don't care for shiny features, if the price is random stuff breaking and having to be troubleshooted in the latest version.