Comment by fsloth
4 days ago
I don’t think abundance vs speed is the right lens.
No user actually wants abundance. They use few programs and would benwfit if those programs were optimized.
Established apps could be optimized to the hilt.
But they seldom are.
> They use few programs
Yes but it's a different 'few programs' than 99% of all other users, so we're back to square one.
>No user actually wants abundance.
No, all users just want the few programs which they themselves need. The market is not one user, though. It's all of them.
But each vendor only develop a few software and generally supports only three platforms -/+ one. It’s so damning when I see projects reaching out for electron, when they only support macOS and Windows. And software like Slack has no excuse for being this slow on anything other than latest gen cpu and 1gb internet connection.
slack is shit along all sorts of dimensions (not just speed and bloat) because you're not the customer.
Users only want 5% of the features of the few programs they use. However everyone has a different list of features and a different list of programs. And so to get a market you need all the features on all the programs.