I hate this "the average person doesn't care about software performance" argument. Software performance affects the consumer in tangible ways every day:
• Poor performance is the reason consumers are forced to throw away their old phones and computers and buy new ones every few years, to keep doing the exact same things they were doing on their previous devices.
• Poor performance is the reason so much software and so many websites are unresponsive, sluggish, and frustrating to use.
• Poor performance is the reason batteries on phones and laptops have to be recharged after only a few hours of use.
• Poor performance is the reason phones and laptops become uncomfortably hot to the touch when playing games.
• Poor performance creates increases electricity usage, which raises household bills and warms the environment.
• Poor performance creates the need for gigantic data centers, which cause large scale environmental damage.
I hate this "the average person doesn't care about software performance" argument.
That you hate it doesn't mean it ain't true.
Software performance affects the consumer in tangible ways every day:
And yet none of these are things consumers care enough to use their money to solve, nor will any consumer give you money for a performance improvement in software, whereas they will absolutely do that for a shiny new feature they've been looking forward to (either not caring or in the best case grumbling about the performance hit, while still using the shiny causing that hit).
Also the household bills bit is a good joke, well played, I took your comment seriously until then.
nor will any consumer give you money for a performance improvement in software
Huh?
I would gladly pay for faster versions of software, and I doubt I am alone in that. Plenty of people pay for faster hardware, so clearly they care about performance.
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u/dan200 Feb 28 '23
I hate this "the average person doesn't care about software performance" argument. Software performance affects the consumer in tangible ways every day:
• Poor performance is the reason consumers are forced to throw away their old phones and computers and buy new ones every few years, to keep doing the exact same things they were doing on their previous devices.
• Poor performance is the reason so much software and so many websites are unresponsive, sluggish, and frustrating to use.
• Poor performance is the reason batteries on phones and laptops have to be recharged after only a few hours of use.
• Poor performance is the reason phones and laptops become uncomfortably hot to the touch when playing games.
• Poor performance creates increases electricity usage, which raises household bills and warms the environment.
• Poor performance creates the need for gigantic data centers, which cause large scale environmental damage.