Is it just me?
Thunderbird updated the other day, breaking yet another one of my plugins. I think they're all kaput now. Thanks, Mozilla. iOS 5 is coming out soon, which means we have to tear around and make all of our apps "compliant" or they'll get pulled from the AppStore. Thanks, Apple. We're mostly moved onto Blogger, and that's fine, but now my RSS feeds are all hosed (TBird thinks all the imported entries have the same date), and there's no option to have more than 25 items in the feed. Thanks, Google.
Everybody's in a hurry to update their software, but nobody gives a shit about what people already have in place. I'm all for progress to a point as long as it doesn't involve discarding everything I have right now. Everybody beat up Microsoft for years for doing this, yet for some reason we've all decided now that it's a perfectly acceptable practice.
Screw that. Stop breaking your software. You're not going to inspire much loyalty to your brand if moving to another system is just as easy as upgrading yours. And increasingly it is.
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