{"id":429,"date":"2011-09-27T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-09-27T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:42:35","slug":"its-the-software-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/its-the-software-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Software, Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got Kellie a new all-in-one printer\/scanner\/copier for her office. \u00a0After years of buying HP printers, I got tired of their crappy software. \u00a0I have no idea why they insist on a multi-hundred megabyte distribution just to support a printer: \u00a0they install a bunch of stuff I don&#8217;t want\/need, and the software I do need isn&#8217;t that good.<\/p>\n<p>This time, we bought an Epson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003XDU8PI\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=andrewpayne&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B003XDU8PI\">WorkForce 635<\/a>), and it&#8217;s a refreshing difference. \u00a0The build quality seems comparable to HP, but the software is much, much more streamlined.<\/p>\n<p>The whole experience underscores something interesting: \u00a0the overall usability, quality, and capability of many hardware devices is increasingly defined by\u00a0<strong>software<\/strong>. \u00a0Yet many hardware companies fail to prioritize their software design.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this thought experiment: \u00a0would you rather have an Android phone running iOS, or an Apple phone running Android?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got Kellie a new all-in-one printer\/scanner\/copier for her office. \u00a0After years of buying HP printers, I got tired of their crappy software. \u00a0I have no idea why they insist on a multi-hundred megabyte distribution just to support a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/its-the-software-stupid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}