The first release of software products mainly starts slim and easy. But developers try to add functionality to make a 2.0 version of this product, and sell it again. Why should new versions of software products always have to be better in case of functionality than their predecessor version? Will customers also appreciate new software, which is “only” better under the hood, in terms of architecture, speed? I think costumers will not use software that is big, inertial, and complicated to use. David Pouge tries to point out this issue with his newest video at the New York Times Technology rubric:
Pouge denotes that Apple will try to go a different way with MacOS Snow Leopard now. I think the main goal with this version of MacOS is to gain a modern, slim and stable version of their operating system to work on for later releases. Under the motto it is better to make one step back and have the opportunity to make a giant leap forward.
In my opinion also Microsoft should consider to clean up their software products to get durable solutions. Windows 7 seems going this way – to be a well-engineered version of vista, but they still have a big focus on adding new functionality.
