Re: Comprehension gaps
"What they were doing is software maintenance - because that's where 90% of the money is in the software lifecycle."
Upvoted, though I have to point out that if you are interacting with the real world a lot that "maintenance" can involve an awful lot of what looks like development.
It's pretty obvious from the upgrade cycle, slowness or absence thereof, that many phone makers completely suck at this aspect of development. This is where Apple, with its strictly limited product range meaning that OS update support applies to very few platforms, has got it right; and where Samsung, with far too many different products, has got it wrong.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
