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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 38 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Fucking "features". Can't software just be finished? I bought App. App does exactly what I need it to do. Leave. It. Alone.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    No, never! Tech corps (both devs and app stores) brainwashed people into thinking "no updates = bad".

    Recently, I have seen people complain about lack of updates for: OS for a handheld emulation device (not the emulator, the OS, which does not have any glaring issues), and Gemini protocol browser (gemini protocol is simple and has not changed since 2019 or so).

    Maybe these people don't use the calculator app because arithmetic was not updated in a few thousand years.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A big part of this issue is mobile OS APIs. You can't just finish an android app and be done. It gets bit rot so fast. You get maybe 1-2 years with no updates before "this app was built for an older version of android" then "this app is not compatible with your device".

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