Comment by lpcvoid

9 hours ago

Shareholder value had to be increased, don't you understand?!

More likely: "People needed to get promotion packages, don't you understand?!"

I would guess many of the bad changes are caused by perverse incentives which do not even help shareholder value.

  • My mental model remains that the Windows team is mostly governed by designers on Macs who want to see a user-visible change to get their promo and never use Windows.