Look at the sales numbers of any piece of software that is offered as subscription vs perpetual license. Subscriptions are vastly favored because the initial cost is much lower. That is much easier to get into an annual budget than a hefty one time license fee, even if on average a customer pays more after three years of subscribing compared to a perpetual license. Which is also why companies tend to push the subscription model because the annuities are far better for cash flow than one time licenses. The entire cloud is generally based on the subscription model which also allows for short term resource increases. Even perpetual licenses are more and more bound to software versions. You may get one free upgrade, but that's it. While the product keeps functioning it will become stale fairly quickly.
You hit the nail on the head! It is funny that customers demand frequent improvements, love the subscription model, but then complain that there are annual updates. I think the issue is to make drastic changes with each of the major updates that upsets people.
What do folks want? Have their improvements and new features, but don't install the necessary update for it? Or is it more that any new version is at times riddled with bugs that require frequent patching? If the latter, then we have the typical quality problem. Sadly, customers are not paying extra for top notch quality nor do they want to wait for their new features until they are properly tested. Worse even, they complain about it, but keep buying gadgets and subscriptions. That gives companies 0 incentive to change. Make quality a key demand and ask for the test plans and test results. That way you know what was covered and what was not.
Disclosure: I work in QA for a software company that pushes multiple scheduled updates each year as well as (IMHO) far too many unscheduled updates. I wish I had the luxury of time to complete proper testing, but release dates are set somewhat arbitrarily, product steering has a list, and that is what will get released. Dev and QA are rushing things, getting sidetracked by customer complaints that need to be resolved, wasting time on features that product steering does not want anymore in favor of something else (typically they want both), and never have time to take a step back, improve process and foundations, get more training, and then go faster. I bet it is no different in other companies. I also think that many cut the rather expensive QA in favor of cheaper support. They may have done the math and found for themselves that dealing with an issue after release is cheaper for them than not releasing a feature. Overall, companies do not want to change their ways. The only avenue for them to do is when you hit them in the pocket book. So please do so and let them know why. You may move on, but that feedback and insight will make it better for many others....and yourself when you switch back, because the grass on the other side was as green or brown as on this side.
Naaa.....Apple makes money by selling consumer electronics, not with fixing already sold devices. This is nothing else than a continued push to force Apple users into spending a lot of money every year on new product. While I think it is shoddy practice by Apple, the blame is also on the Apple customers. You folks ought to be well aware that Apple's interest is exclusively to grow the amount of money they get from you, especially after roping you into the Apple ecosystem once. Don't like that? The stop buying the overpriced Apple crap or stop whining.
Because FOSS is so much better and without any flaws! Not like the closed source commercial counterparts. - Sarcasm aside, no matter what model, if QA is seen by developer dominated software providers as an afterthought then things like this happen. It is in the same category where an equation editor in a word processor apparently has so much might that it can hose the entire system. I fully agree - "That, Ain't, Right!"
Yes, but that is not because there is no means to overcome the outdatedness. Vendors intentionally do not push the updates available. No wonder, they already made the sale. Google is at fault for not adding mandatory upgrades for 5 years into their license agreements.
Yes, bugs will get released. The question is how many of them are entirely avoidable if proper QA practices were employed. I disagree on OS X being so much better, unless you have top notch hardware it is not a great performer, usage patterns are often illogical, plenty of interactions could easily be boiled down to one or to clicks rather than a dozen, and many things are different purely out of spite. There is not a single OS out there that can be considered good. Also, OS X being tied to ridiculously overpriced off the shelf hardware ought to be held to a higher standard. After all, that is what folks paid for.
Actually, the cost of no quality is quite significant, but only has an impact when customers stop using product an cite quality issues. There is one channel corporations listen to on an hourly basis: cash flow. Don't complain about "how negligent the non-users are to flaws", stop endorsing that practice and no longer buy such product or demand money back to faulty merchandise.
QA is seen s optional and apparently Apple is right. People still stand in line to buy their consumer electronics giving Apple probably the best year they ever had. All those who are annoyed by all these Apple bugs...stop buying Apple! Anyone who still buys Apple products endorses this lackluster approach to quality. Your choice!
Let them have their cell phones....but without service not much happens. Yes, I know that will impact visitors, lawyers, and personnel as well, but they can opt for hardwired alternatives.
I was renting for a long time until a house in the neighborhood came on the market. We did the math and after mortgage, taxes, insurance, and other fees we came up with 300$ less than what we paid in rent. Buying not only saves us a lot of money, it builds equity. As a first time buyer we made use of the available assistance that allowed us to invest into remodel and a new roof. "New roof?" you say, an expense that a renter does not have to worry about. True, but even with the loan payment that will end soon we still pay less per month compared to renting....for a house twice the size.
Any twist to blame Obama is welcome by some. Spilled your coffee? Obama! Spouse left you? Obama! Too dark at night? Obama! Earthquake? Obama! Climate Change? Oh wait...that is the exception being a Chinese hoax.
Trump is the head honcho of the Republican Party and he could have picked a different FCC president. While he was not personally involved in this fiasco (he is in plenty others), he did have some influence on how this panel is put together. I do agree that some of these morons predate the Trump rampage on the country. Makes one wonder which qualifications one must have to get such a position....apparently none!
Relaxing regulations brought us the Wall Street meltdown and the following mega recession. It is naive, if not painfully dumb to believe that less regulation is better for the greater good. Less regulation is only good for rich people and rich corps to get even richer by making everyone else pay. How many more times does this Reagonomics think have to be proven to be majorly flawed?
Also, about 80% of the budgets of drug companies are spent on marketing, the rest is for production and R&D. Further, the overhead in medical facilities is insane. Yes, it gives people jobs, but look at how lean facilities are run in Europe requiring only a fraction of the expenses while delivering the same quality of care. In Germany, for example, EHR are common place for decades, billing is standardized across all plans, and consumers sign up with the insurance company they want to rather than having the employer pick it for you, health care insurance is mandatory for almost everyone (see below), access fees are split 50/50 between employee and employer, and the access fees are based on a percentage of income with a max percentage set by law. Insurance companies can compete for customers by offering access fees at a lower percentage of income. That also means that rich people pay more while receiving the same level of service....although really rich people can ask to be excused from the insurance mandate. Then they have to pay out of their own pocket which may be cheaper for them and is wildly preferred by providers.
By the time Trump is done destroying this country we can double the number of people having to decide between food, shelter, and health care.
Like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, SlingTV, Fox2Go, ESPN3, any other live stream of broadcasts...anything that would require more than a 32k modem can handle will either be blocked or you have to pay extra for getting it.
Not only that, Eugene Kaspersky is Putin's sauna buddy. Russian influence or not, Krapspersky is an awful piece of software, a massive data collector, and a huge system performance killer. There is a reason why it is so popular with agencies and businesses: it is dirt cheap.
Paraphrasing Adam Savage: Pai rejects reality and substitutes his own. I do wonder if such calls are to be documented if not even recorded as part of operations of a government entity. Will be interesting to know what they talked about if they talked to Pai at all.
So rather than protect consumers outright they have to engage in litigation against mega corps that will take years and cost a fortune? No surprise, in an administration made up of millionaires and billionaires money considerations are not even on their radar....unless of course the checks from the big ISPs don't clear.
With so much stuff coming from Mexico closing the border is not feasible. Unless you don't care about produce, electronics, cars, car parts,.....
The most effective means would be to work with Mexican governments to improve living conditions in Mexico eliminating the desire to go to the US. Instead big corps are bullied into ending investments in Mexico, removing thousands of decent jobs, and increasing the likelihood of Mexicans to pursue their happiness up north.
Because Trump said so. Same with climate change, Trump declared it a Chinese hoax and that was the end to it. There is nothing in it for Mexico and Mexico will never pay for the wall. We have to pay for the wall and that includes the irresponsible morons who voted Trump into office.
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Look at the sales numbers of any piece of software that is offered as subscription vs perpetual license. Subscriptions are vastly favored because the initial cost is much lower. That is much easier to get into an annual budget than a hefty one time license fee, even if on average a customer pays more after three years of subscribing compared to a perpetual license. Which is also why companies tend to push the subscription model because the annuities are far better for cash flow than one time licenses. The entire cloud is generally based on the subscription model which also allows for short term resource increases. Even perpetual licenses are more and more bound to software versions. You may get one free upgrade, but that's it. While the product keeps functioning it will become stale fairly quickly.
You hit the nail on the head! It is funny that customers demand frequent improvements, love the subscription model, but then complain that there are annual updates. I think the issue is to make drastic changes with each of the major updates that upsets people.
What do folks want? Have their improvements and new features, but don't install the necessary update for it? Or is it more that any new version is at times riddled with bugs that require frequent patching? If the latter, then we have the typical quality problem. Sadly, customers are not paying extra for top notch quality nor do they want to wait for their new features until they are properly tested. Worse even, they complain about it, but keep buying gadgets and subscriptions. That gives companies 0 incentive to change. Make quality a key demand and ask for the test plans and test results. That way you know what was covered and what was not.
Disclosure: I work in QA for a software company that pushes multiple scheduled updates each year as well as (IMHO) far too many unscheduled updates. I wish I had the luxury of time to complete proper testing, but release dates are set somewhat arbitrarily, product steering has a list, and that is what will get released. Dev and QA are rushing things, getting sidetracked by customer complaints that need to be resolved, wasting time on features that product steering does not want anymore in favor of something else (typically they want both), and never have time to take a step back, improve process and foundations, get more training, and then go faster. I bet it is no different in other companies. I also think that many cut the rather expensive QA in favor of cheaper support. They may have done the math and found for themselves that dealing with an issue after release is cheaper for them than not releasing a feature. Overall, companies do not want to change their ways. The only avenue for them to do is when you hit them in the pocket book. So please do so and let them know why. You may move on, but that feedback and insight will make it better for many others....and yourself when you switch back, because the grass on the other side was as green or brown as on this side.
Maybe you mean startpage, that is essentially the same as Google without all the recommended content stuff.
Naaa.....Apple makes money by selling consumer electronics, not with fixing already sold devices. This is nothing else than a continued push to force Apple users into spending a lot of money every year on new product. While I think it is shoddy practice by Apple, the blame is also on the Apple customers. You folks ought to be well aware that Apple's interest is exclusively to grow the amount of money they get from you, especially after roping you into the Apple ecosystem once. Don't like that? The stop buying the overpriced Apple crap or stop whining.
Because FOSS is so much better and without any flaws! Not like the closed source commercial counterparts. - Sarcasm aside, no matter what model, if QA is seen by developer dominated software providers as an afterthought then things like this happen. It is in the same category where an equation editor in a word processor apparently has so much might that it can hose the entire system. I fully agree - "That, Ain't, Right!"
Yes, but that is not because there is no means to overcome the outdatedness. Vendors intentionally do not push the updates available. No wonder, they already made the sale. Google is at fault for not adding mandatory upgrades for 5 years into their license agreements.
Yes, bugs will get released. The question is how many of them are entirely avoidable if proper QA practices were employed. I disagree on OS X being so much better, unless you have top notch hardware it is not a great performer, usage patterns are often illogical, plenty of interactions could easily be boiled down to one or to clicks rather than a dozen, and many things are different purely out of spite. There is not a single OS out there that can be considered good. Also, OS X being tied to ridiculously overpriced off the shelf hardware ought to be held to a higher standard. After all, that is what folks paid for.
Actually, the cost of no quality is quite significant, but only has an impact when customers stop using product an cite quality issues. There is one channel corporations listen to on an hourly basis: cash flow. Don't complain about "how negligent the non-users are to flaws", stop endorsing that practice and no longer buy such product or demand money back to faulty merchandise.
This is what you get when people still buy shoddy product just because it has the Apple logo on it.
QA is seen s optional and apparently Apple is right. People still stand in line to buy their consumer electronics giving Apple probably the best year they ever had. All those who are annoyed by all these Apple bugs...stop buying Apple! Anyone who still buys Apple products endorses this lackluster approach to quality. Your choice!
What would be far more effective is banning guns. Makes committing crimes significantly harder and drastically reduces prison population.
Let them have their cell phones....but without service not much happens. Yes, I know that will impact visitors, lawyers, and personnel as well, but they can opt for hardwired alternatives.
I was renting for a long time until a house in the neighborhood came on the market. We did the math and after mortgage, taxes, insurance, and other fees we came up with 300$ less than what we paid in rent. Buying not only saves us a lot of money, it builds equity. As a first time buyer we made use of the available assistance that allowed us to invest into remodel and a new roof. "New roof?" you say, an expense that a renter does not have to worry about. True, but even with the loan payment that will end soon we still pay less per month compared to renting....for a house twice the size.
Any twist to blame Obama is welcome by some. Spilled your coffee? Obama! Spouse left you? Obama! Too dark at night? Obama! Earthquake? Obama! Climate Change? Oh wait...that is the exception being a Chinese hoax.
But not as chairman...that was Trump.
Trump is the head honcho of the Republican Party and he could have picked a different FCC president. While he was not personally involved in this fiasco (he is in plenty others), he did have some influence on how this panel is put together. I do agree that some of these morons predate the Trump rampage on the country. Makes one wonder which qualifications one must have to get such a position....apparently none!
Relaxing regulations brought us the Wall Street meltdown and the following mega recession. It is naive, if not painfully dumb to believe that less regulation is better for the greater good. Less regulation is only good for rich people and rich corps to get even richer by making everyone else pay. How many more times does this Reagonomics think have to be proven to be majorly flawed?
Also, about 80% of the budgets of drug companies are spent on marketing, the rest is for production and R&D. Further, the overhead in medical facilities is insane. Yes, it gives people jobs, but look at how lean facilities are run in Europe requiring only a fraction of the expenses while delivering the same quality of care. In Germany, for example, EHR are common place for decades, billing is standardized across all plans, and consumers sign up with the insurance company they want to rather than having the employer pick it for you, health care insurance is mandatory for almost everyone (see below), access fees are split 50/50 between employee and employer, and the access fees are based on a percentage of income with a max percentage set by law. Insurance companies can compete for customers by offering access fees at a lower percentage of income. That also means that rich people pay more while receiving the same level of service....although really rich people can ask to be excused from the insurance mandate. Then they have to pay out of their own pocket which may be cheaper for them and is wildly preferred by providers.
By the time Trump is done destroying this country we can double the number of people having to decide between food, shelter, and health care.
Like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, SlingTV, Fox2Go, ESPN3, any other live stream of broadcasts...anything that would require more than a 32k modem can handle will either be blocked or you have to pay extra for getting it.
Not only that, Eugene Kaspersky is Putin's sauna buddy. Russian influence or not, Krapspersky is an awful piece of software, a massive data collector, and a huge system performance killer. There is a reason why it is so popular with agencies and businesses: it is dirt cheap.
Paraphrasing Adam Savage: Pai rejects reality and substitutes his own. I do wonder if such calls are to be documented if not even recorded as part of operations of a government entity. Will be interesting to know what they talked about if they talked to Pai at all.
What is there to oxygenate?
So rather than protect consumers outright they have to engage in litigation against mega corps that will take years and cost a fortune? No surprise, in an administration made up of millionaires and billionaires money considerations are not even on their radar....unless of course the checks from the big ISPs don't clear.
With so much stuff coming from Mexico closing the border is not feasible. Unless you don't care about produce, electronics, cars, car parts,..... The most effective means would be to work with Mexican governments to improve living conditions in Mexico eliminating the desire to go to the US. Instead big corps are bullied into ending investments in Mexico, removing thousands of decent jobs, and increasing the likelihood of Mexicans to pursue their happiness up north.
Because Trump said so. Same with climate change, Trump declared it a Chinese hoax and that was the end to it. There is nothing in it for Mexico and Mexico will never pay for the wall. We have to pay for the wall and that includes the irresponsible morons who voted Trump into office.