A technical or a marketing matter?
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| r_a_trip Feb 17, 2011 7:28 AM EDT |
I wonder, is cranking up the version number justified by the planned technical changes or is this a matter of feeling insecure about a low version number? Internet Explorer can boast a high version number, so can Google Chrome (justified or not) and Opera. Firefox 4 sounds young in comparison. It may be a sign of the times. More and more people who are less and less technically adept, are using Linux and they bring with them their uneducated rules of thumb. Bigger numbers means better, higher cost means more quality, you always need the newest of the newest (also known as updateritis). If it is a matter of markerting, why not bump the number up to 10 for the next release and accompany it with marketing fluff, which states that the number is justified by the tremendous advances in technology that have been made. Seems quicker than going the route of point releases and mislabeling them as major versions. |
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