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by Azkar 3238 days ago
It's hard to move fast and have a well engineered product.
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Then don't move fast. It's as simple as that. Move at the pace that you can sustain a reasonably engineered app.
At which point everyone who moves fast will beat you.
Will them?

Amazon differential is not the quality of their app. Unless they create something really impressive some day, they can only lose customers by moving faster there.

Besides, none of those are small startups anymore. All of them have something to lose.

> Amazon differential is not the quality of their app.

For my only real experience with amazon (audible) the quality of their app is a negative, I'd much prefer they made an API available. The same can be said of others, I'd much rather native apps connecting to a netflix API than use their awful web player.

There might be countless number of failed chat/social apps that failed due to their time spent engineering something like size reduction or code quality. You probably just never hear about them, since you know they failed to get traction.

So size being a problem seems only true for engineers. A normal user don't care as long as their device still works. And apple won't care since they can use this as an opportunity to up sell larger devices.

90% of the time, the organizations that say stuff like this just don't have any discipline. You can move plenty fast with a well engineered product.