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You're living in a fantasy world. It may be how you think the software business should work, but it's not how it works.

Your opinion as a software developer means nothing in this case. Ask your customers what they think. You might be able to get away with this strategy for a little while, but it's a surefire way to kill any product. Stop updating an app for a few years and see how great your sales are after that.




I know of quite a few products that have not been updated since the late 90's, early 2000's and bring in quite a nice chunk of change.

The common characteristics:

* The customers are not whiners: Does it work? Yes? Sold

* Non-trivial problem: Inventory, computer graphics, math

* Pricing: Expensive

So, ok, some company making a subversion interface stopped updating their software. Someone else picks it up because it's /easy/.

That's why you don't make software for software developers! Sell them chairs or something.

These guys keep making money because the problems they solve are hard.




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