And yet they’re wildly successful, including the wide level of adoption of their open source projects like React.
Meta’s profit per employee is over $250,000, higher than Qualcomm. There is no Meta competitor in any of their verticals that has a larger customer base.
It seems to me that your definition of “software quality” and “lost cause” is factually wrong based on the metrics of success that matter.
And in any event, it is an engineer’s tunnel vision fallacy to believe that software quality is the most important factor to stakeholders. People will prefer buggy/slow software that solves their problem over fast/stable software that fails to solve their problem.
And are almost never offered fast/stable software that solves their problem. When they are, it will come with aggressive fud by the competition or they will just lobby the government to mandate the incidental complexity of their own software so that the competition cannot even enter the market without being brought down to their level.
Qualcomm basically has a monopoly in many of their product lines. They’re like the Nvidia of 5G modems and high end ARM chips. They’re also an insane patent licensing machine.
Meta’s profit per employee is over $250,000, higher than Qualcomm. There is no Meta competitor in any of their verticals that has a larger customer base.
It seems to me that your definition of “software quality” and “lost cause” is factually wrong based on the metrics of success that matter.
And in any event, it is an engineer’s tunnel vision fallacy to believe that software quality is the most important factor to stakeholders. People will prefer buggy/slow software that solves their problem over fast/stable software that fails to solve their problem.