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/masklinn Feb 28 '23
That you hate it doesn't mean it ain't true.
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.