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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by sidlls on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:26PM (#15975577)
Here's my take: in the world of software products speed of delivery trumps quality almost every time. Customers seem to be happy with a flaky, feature-lite products and pay for it. They'll pay to have something that kinda-sorta works now and pay to improve it on an extended basis in the B2B space. Development companies recognize this and structure themselves accordingly.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by aryehof on Thursday December 21, 2017 @12:43AM (#15976713)
It's not that customers (stakeholders) are happy, it's more that they just don't (immediately) know that what they are getting is mediocre or worse.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by QAPereo on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:31PM (#15976447)
Customers are unhappy, but ignorant of the causes of their unhappiness.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by Terr_ on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:27AM (#15977521)
The tyranny of low expectations: "Oh, it broke and I have to start over? Well, computers are like that, right?"
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by awshepard on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:10PM (#15981243)
> Customers seem to be happy with a flaky, feature-lite products and pay for it. They'll pay to have something that kinda-sorta works now and pay to improve it on an extended basis

Yea, I was going to say - do customers expect flaky products, and companies have structured themselves accordingly? Or have companies produced flaky products, thereby getting users accustomed to paying for flaky products with promises of "we'll fix it in the next version," thus allowing companies to produce ever flakier products? Chicken and egg question I guess.

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