[NitpickLawyer]

> 4 will have an inefficient app, suffer reputational damage

Have we been living in different realities? I can't remember any example of companies in the past 10 years that have suffered reputational damage related to their inefficient apps. And there have been plenty of inefficient apps...

[Incipient]

Sorry there should have been an 'and/or' clause in there.

Reputational I was thinking leaking data, or generating wrong information for users etc

[amonith]

I mean a lot do get reputational damage (e.g. a lot of people hate Jira because how slow it is, or Microsoft Teams - same story) - it's just that nothing comes of it, so "suffered" is perhaps the wrong word here. People curse them and still use them.

[bot403]

I don't hate Jira because it's slow. I hate it because it has obvious well known quirks and deficiencies that never get corrected.

Plus "next generation projects" that just stall and seem unfinished.

If I didn't see them slam ai into it in weeks just like everyone else I would say they have no product teams or engineers working on it.

[brazukadev]

Funny. I think that is exactly what's happening with OpenAI (and also Twitter/X/Xai/SpaceXai)

[jvdp]

Sonos.

[ethbr1]

> I can't remember any example of companies in the past 10 years that have suffered reputational damage related to their inefficient apps

OTOH, under what sequence of events would you?

Something gets big / popular enough for you to hear about it, despite having an inefficient app?

It seems exceedingly likely that a large number of companies with terrible apps just never grow... because they have terrible apps.

[freekh]

Sonos?