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by selcuka 1665 days ago
> I think the oversimplification doesn't help

True

> It's usually harder to attract new customers

To my defense that difficulty was factored in the 2% figure.

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oh yes, I didn't mean to harp on you, what I meant is that I believe a lot of executives make the same calculation, oversimplifying things in the same way which leads to the repeated QA issues both Apple and Microsoft have or to the issues that Jetbrains has. New features are exciting and are seen as ways to get new customers.

Stability and bug fixes is not sexy and I believe underestimated as a way to retain customers but it's critical to customer happiness.