You're talking somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but my situation is that I need to use Microsoft Teams. Composing a message, I would say at about 300-500 words with some formatting it starts becoming unusable.
I am completely serious, actually. Surprised to see it downvoted. The only underlying assumption is that I'm using default/mainstream tools (macOS, JetBrains IDEs or XCode or Google Docs).
Teams is the bane of my existence. My fully specced 2019 MBP can't handle a Teams call without slowing down the whole system. I have to join calls using Chrome instead. I don't understand how a company like Microsoft can make such terrible software.
It’s now well known that in the Malaise Era of Detroit, all corporate executives received their company cars after they had gone through the quality shop to correct all problems. They drove perfectly set up cars that did not have any of the problems experienced by the average consumer. They simply had no idea what it was like.
You read complaints on HN all the time that sure make it seem like we have entered a Malaise Era in computing. Us developers surely do not run computers set up like the average consumer, and you can be darn sure that corporate executives at Microsoft and Apple do not get plain vanilla laptops fresh off the production line.
> You read complaints on HN all the time that sure make it seem like we have entered a Malaise Era in computing. Us developers surely do not run computers set up like the average consumer, and you can be darn sure that corporate executives at Microsoft and Apple do not get plain vanilla laptops fresh off the production line.
One of my college internships involved setting up laptops for VIPs and Executives for exactly these reasons! We optimized the installs, removed crud ware, and setup the system to be as well performing as possible, then shipped them out.
At one point Lenovo made a laptop where they cut costs by removing the cache on the HDD, there was nothing we could do to make that machine not horrible. Multiple minutes to do simple tasks, installing Office took hours! It was horrible, their reputation was so bad a number of them came back to us not even having been opened.
The same applies for web developers. Most people who make web sites for a living don't test their products with the outdated Android phones and low-end laptops and 2 Mbps connections that many of the site's visitors will be using.
