"The email made it pretty clear that Google wants developers to continuously push new versions to customers."
Why. It is not Google's software. Shouldn't that decision be left to the software author.
Why. It is not Google's software. Shouldn't that decision be left to the software author.
microsoft windows has been maintained thru to the present, but has become increasingly unusable since Win 7. so, no, false.
Similarly, modern third party windows software runs better than ever.
Of course, I run it all under Linux…
But also I'm not sure that's a great example anyway because I'm sure most people would want to find Microsoft apps on the app store regardless of what you think about their "usability" or maintenance. Usability is a different metric that's more arbitrary
But the parent commenter's company software did not need to be updated to be useful to the company. Its only purpose was to control hardware made by the company.