Pointless IT Innovations Considered Harmful

Makarand writes "According to a comment column in the guardian innovations in IT are most often simply more trouble than they are worth. Most innovations in IT today are platform specific and are easy to come up with in the computing fields. Innovating gets easier if the platform sticks around for a long time. These innovations accrue incompatibilities making it difficult for users to switch platforms and absorb the costs of switching to a new platform. Users will not switch to a competitor's product if they believe that their platform will be later updated to deliver the same benefits."

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Guardian UK Luddite Horseshit

[gelfling]

This is typical "if we can't weave it out of granola then it tortures puppies and brown people" Guardian prattle. How the hell do they think innovation actually happens?

Do they propose that all computers ever needed was a grooooovy 12th generation permanently backwards compatible rillly rilly kewl AT bus?

Wankers.

More To Inherent Value Than Just Marketability

[ishmalius]

The article implies that if a new idea is not directly useable by the proletariat, it is antiproductive and should be purged.

Typical of the Guardian, a journal that longs for the good old Leninist days of the 1920's.