Late Stage Capitalism

Yeah, I'm not one to use insulting terms, it's more of a natural process of an industry lowering the bar to entry.

But there really is something to be said for those old applications that were built rock solid, even if they only came out with a new version once every four years.

More frequent releases of a smaller feature set isn't wrong. I'd be happy getting high quality application updates every month or so.

But as with all things, the analysis falls on the side that capitalism just doesn't incentivize the right things. Quarterly profit drives lots of features delivered poorly instead of a few good features delivered occasionally. Of course the developers get blamed for this when really they are just a product of a broken system. We invent insulting terms for them instead of going after the real problem, Because, of course, we don't have an understanding of materialism in the west.

Oh well.