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My point is that, for some reason, we have been conditioned to believe that bugs and data loss are just something that happen as opposed to something that service providers, who we pay money to, are charged with avoiding. We hold software to a much lower standard of quality than we hold other products and services.


* we have been conditioned to believe that bugs and data loss are just something that happen

They're something that happen to unregulated services that cost $8/month. If I paid $8/month for electricity, water or Internet access, yeah I'd expect yearly blackouts. To get an SLA you have to pay more.


Would this bug not have happened with Dropbox for Business?

And didn't Microsoft make an absolute fortune releasing buggy as shit software throughout the entire 1990's?




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