Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

nosuchanon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Yeah, my favorite is when they figure out what features people are willing to pay for and then pay while everything that makes an app useful.

And after they monetize that fully and realize that the money is not endless, they switch to a subscription model. So that they can have you pay for your depreciating crappy software forever.

But at least you know it kind of works while you’re paying for it. It takes way too much effort to find some other unknown piece of software for the same function, and it is usually performs worse than what you had until the developers figure out how to make the features work again before Putting it behind a paywall and subscription model again again.

But along the way, everyone gets to be miserable from the users to the developers and the project managers. Everyone except of course, the shareholders Because they get to make money, no matter how crappy their product, which they don’t use anyway, becomes.

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