> I honestly don’t blame them: [...] software is software
That attitude is the problem. Why does our industry have that attitude towards quality? Every bike shop in my little town is better with quality than the average software shop in the world. Yes, software is more complex than bicycle. But a software engineer also gets paid 10x and has the luxury of spending substantial time on their product, compared to the 10 minutes it takes the bike guy down the street to diagnose and then fix an issue with my bike which I then trust my life with once they are done and I bike through traffic.
We need to treat software differently. "Oh well, it's just software shrug" does not cut it anymore, if it even ever did.
You could say that the entire selling point of Apple is that it's better quality than the competitors (even though it's still pretty bad if you compare it to a bicycle).
I guess it's more difficult to spot quality when it comes to software. I would definitely pay for high quality software. It's just that usually the crap quality of a software I'm using only shows slowly over time in little bugs and bad usability and there's no way for me to check for it beforehand.
teiferer · · focus · HN ↗
That attitude is the problem. Why does our industry have that attitude towards quality? Every bike shop in my little town is better with quality than the average software shop in the world. Yes, software is more complex than bicycle. But a software engineer also gets paid 10x and has the luxury of spending substantial time on their product, compared to the 10 minutes it takes the bike guy down the street to diagnose and then fix an issue with my bike which I then trust my life with once they are done and I bike through traffic.
We need to treat software differently. "Oh well, it's just software shrug" does not cut it anymore, if it even ever did.
vjk800 · · focus · HN ↗
You could say that the entire selling point of Apple is that it's better quality than the competitors (even though it's still pretty bad if you compare it to a bicycle).
I guess it's more difficult to spot quality when it comes to software. I would definitely pay for high quality software. It's just that usually the crap quality of a software I'm using only shows slowly over time in little bugs and bad usability and there's no way for me to check for it beforehand.