‘The Beauty of Finished Software’
Jose M. Gilgado:
Our expectations for software are different from other products we
use in our daily lives.
When we buy a physical product, we accept that it won’t change in
its lifetime. We’ll use it until it wears off, and we replace it.
We can rely on that product not evolving; the gas pedal in my car
will always be in the same place.
However, when it comes to software, we usually have the ingrained
expectations of perpetual updates. We believe that if software
doesn’t evolve it’ll be boring, old and unusable. If we see an
app with no updates in the last year, we think the creator might
be dead.
(Via Dave Winer.)
★
Jose M. Gilgado:
Our expectations for software are different from other products we
use in our daily lives.
When we buy a physical product, we accept that it won’t change in
its lifetime. We’ll use it until it wears off, and we replace it.
We can rely on that product not evolving; the gas pedal in my car
will always be in the same place.
However, when it comes to software, we usually have the ingrained
expectations of perpetual updates. We believe that if software
doesn’t evolve it’ll be boring, old and unusable. If we see an
app with no updates in the last year, we think the creator might
be dead.