Subj : Re: Big Tech Political Co
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Ron L.
Date : Tue Aug 12 2025 07:23 am

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

 AT> Part of the issue is their priorities. Could it be that the internet is
 AT> still slow in India? So they need "graphics acceleration" because "web
 AT> pages load too slowly?" I doubt it, but it does make me wonder if their
 AT> developers live in their moms' basements, and mom can't afford
 AT> broadband so their using dial-up. lol

There was a joke that software developers should be forced to have the same
kind of connections to the Internet that their customers do, just so they can
see how performanent their web pages are for the people who actually use them.

But the reality is economic:
1. Hardware companies want to sell more hardware and making you buy a new PC
every 3-5 years.
2. Software companies want to sell you more software.  So they either make
their software not run on newer PCs, or force an update that doesn't work on
your new PC, or push you to a subscription model.

In any case, it's to make some company more money by pushing you to buy
something you really don't need.

I bypassed much of that by moving to Linux a long time ago.

 RL> So now I think that they are incompetent AND evil.

 AT> This is a much more likely scenario.

Oh, I know it is now.


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