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No. You cannot taste great software. You cannot even know it's great through your senses (the product may be great but the software could be crap). You cannot t
by diego 13y ago
No. You cannot taste great software. You cannot even know it's great through your senses (the product may be great but the software could be crap). You cannot take someone out on a date and enjoy great software. You don't occasionally splurge and enjoy an evening of great software that you later remember as a happy time.
I'd go on, but this is one of the most farfetched similes I've seen on this site.
- pattisapu 13y agoSoftware doesn't (yet) offer the same aesthetic and emotional experiences of fine dining. But aesthetics and emotions are important to the software experience. I think that's the author's rather modest argument, that those experiences are parts of the puzzle in addition to price point, value-add, etc.