>>998195
>When silicon valley realised software quality is largely irrelevant to their bottom line,
the problem with a lot of startups is that they are run by someone who took a marketing 101 class and decided that was all that mattered.
Marketing 101 tells you that if you have the same turd for sale as everybody else, and your advertising is better, you will still sell more turds than the other guys. So they come out with absolutely ordinary products (or even just concepts of ordinary products) and then they spend all their time advertising.
They also tend to stay away from physical products, because that's not free. Materials, factories, warehouses and distribution isn't free--but you can have a server that provides 100K phone app downloads in a day. So they stick to software, so they don't have much of any of their own money in it.
There is phone apps now that are basically just marketing data grabs. They only exist to re-sell the data they get when you install it. If you never actually run it, they don't care. Patching bugs and maintaining content servers costs them money, and they don't want to do that anyway.