• Dmitry Olshansky (19/19) Apr 11 2023 I was pondering the famous worse is better philosophy. I've come

Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:

I was pondering the famous worse is better philosophy. I've come 
to conclusion that there is actualy three classes of the systems.

1. Not Good Enough.
2. Good Enough.
3. The Real Deal.

I believe we all had to deal with Not Good Enough systems produce 
by mismanaged teams.

Good Enough is different - the system has a noumber of well-known 
flaws but people learned to work around them and critically the 
system still does what the user aims to do.

Finally The Real Deal is the kind of product where you really do 
not know what to add or take away, it's flawless in the confines 
of its purpose.

As an example Steve Job and Apple are firmly in The Real Deal 
camp, or at least they strive to be. Bill Gates and Microsoft 
produce famously Good Enough systems, cheaper more buggy less 
polished but workable.

I firmly belive my taxonomy to be superior to the original essay 
on worse is better and frankly simpler.