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If we were buying a product/service, I firmly believe we would see incremental improvements, which things generally getting better each iteration (with the occa
by danielweber 11y ago
If we were buying a product/service, I firmly believe we would see incremental improvements, which things generally getting better each iteration (with the occasional mis-step).
However, since so much is "free as in beer" people have to layer on a bunch of stuff to monetize everything.
People aren't trying to build better mousetraps. They are trying to monetize the mousetrapping experience for social. No, wait, we have to throw all that out because we are trying to capture mindshare for mousetrapping on mobile.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> If we were buying a product/service, I firmly believe we would see incremental improvements, which things generally getting better each iteration (with the occasional mis-step). I disagree, and that's why I brought crapware bundled with PCs and all the non-tech products which get progressively worse. We buy this stuff. Companies aren't giving laptops or coffee makers for free. But we've reached the point of overall-pretty-good computer or coffee maker some time ago. The dynamics works like this: a company can get a little bit more money by bundling some crap or adding some non-feature. This lets them undercut their competitors. Soon, everyone follows, and you see a continuous increase of crap. A race to the bottom. The end-game is not incremental improvements. It's as bad products as possible, that are still good enough that people will buy them.
- enraged_camel 11y agoFurthermore, Google products aren't really free. They collect a lot of information about the user, which massively benefits their ecosystem.