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tyre • yesterday at 4:57 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

They built this brand for hardware, but, personally, I’ve never had this opinion of their software. I mean, being Unix based is better than Windows, but they’ve always been cooking weird UI refreshes or buggy software.

It’s crazy because they have (or had) something like $100bn in cash. Spending 0.5% of that per year on software (development, bug-fixing, performance, and QA) would help tremendously. They’d be insurmountable.

I know “they don’t have to”, but they don’t have to do a lot of things that they do on the hardware side. They choose to.


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astrange • yesterday at 5:55 PM

> Spending 0.5% of that per year on software (development, bug-fixing, performance, and QA) would help tremendously. They’d be insurmountable.

Doesn't really help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

Also, "bug fixing" tends to add new bugs - any kind of change can cause regressions. It's quite difficult.

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