> So it's not even laziness really, it's something else. Apathy, maybe?
My hypothesis is that it comes from a bygone of tech.
Consider the lyrics from Weird Al's "It's all about the pentiums" (1999)
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique!
Your laptop is a month old? Well, that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
From around the 80s all the way up until ~2010, one of the most reliable ways to make software run faster was to wait a year. You could get 50 or even 100% faster CPUs in a matter of a year or two.
Tech CEOs weren't blind to this fact. I have a lot of old software dev coworkers that lamented that era because they never had to think about performance problems. It was always "this won't be an issue if we wait a year".
I think that era has mostly built in an industry wide sloppiness and attitude.
My hypothesis is that it comes from a bygone of tech.
Consider the lyrics from Weird Al's "It's all about the pentiums" (1999)
From around the 80s all the way up until ~2010, one of the most reliable ways to make software run faster was to wait a year. You could get 50 or even 100% faster CPUs in a matter of a year or two.Tech CEOs weren't blind to this fact. I have a lot of old software dev coworkers that lamented that era because they never had to think about performance problems. It was always "this won't be an issue if we wait a year".
I think that era has mostly built in an industry wide sloppiness and attitude.