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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by hintymad on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:12PM (#29232844)
This seems the problem of every big company. Eventually they become slow and their priority becomes puzzling to people outside of the companies. Complexity aside, my theory is that as a company grows, the headcount always grows faster than the quantity of work, and more people become obsessed with visibility and promotion, which leads to promotion-oriented and visibility-oriented project planning. Consequently, product quality deteriorates over time, first slowly and then suddenly.
Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by blep-arsh on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:03PM (#29234729)
As soon as the company starts collecting metrics and sets up A/B testing infrastructure people can just implement whatever they want, as long as they keep improving these metrics. Very often there's no one who can take a look at the resulting mess and decide enough is enough. It's all just self-congratulatory meetings with extremely optimistic charts and an occassional employee complaining about the product being utterly broken and unusable.
Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by thedougd on Monday November 15, 2021 @07:52PM (#29235142)
I'm convinced A/B testing done wrong is what brought us step sisters stuck in washing machines.